Videos depicting a person (usually a woman) crushing an animal to death, usually with their feet. The videos are usually lumped together with hardcore foot fetish videos, but have become increasingly graphic and have attained a growing audience outside of the fetish. They have been called the closest thing to commercial snuff films. Apparently very hard to find as well, I personally have only seen one for sale.

The only large American company that sells squish videos is called Squish Productions. Their videos consist mainly of well-dressed women crushing mice and insects. The owner of the company, Jeff Vilencia, has said it's a very popular genre, and has priced the videos from $100 and up. Also, he refuses to make videos involving any animals larger than a gerbil or mouse.

The first country to make it illegal to distribute (but not own) the videos is England, spawning a fairly large underground market for Squish Video. Because of the difficulty of importing the videos from America, the most hardcore and disgusting come from within England, but mainly from Germany. (Which isn't surprising, considering Germany produces some of the world's most hardcore porn, including scat)

The German videos include the crushing of cats and dogs, and even a few videos depicting a horse being ridden until exhaustion, then shot in the head.

Note: Sometimes called "crush video", but crush videos usually refer to men being sat/layed on by overweight women.

Updates to the node: A Long Island man has been brought up on animal cruelty charges from his productions of squish videos. This was in 1999, but I just found it. I haven't seen a follow-up. (The media calls them "crush video" for some reason)

Long Island article: http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=wes&db=nac_fea&ref=8847

I learned more than I cared to know about squish videos when a new member of my household arrived.

My friend and roommate J attends a local university. He met a woman there, in the school's main library, whom he described as "ghetto-ass black". I'm afraid I don't know what the context of the conversation was, but she, at some point, informed him that she made crush videos (sic). J didn't know what that meant, but being the geek he is, he looked it up on the web and was informed within a few minutes. J spotted the woman leaving the library, and followed her, intending to tell her what a sick fuck she was. Alas, she reached her car, got some books, and walked off before J got the chance. Well, J took a look into her car, and spotted such items as a leather whip and a pair of stiletto heels, along with a shoebox with some small holes punched in it.

J, being pretty good at math, J put two and two together. The window of the car was partially down, so he reached in, unlocked it, and grabbed the shoebox. Inside was a cute little gray rat. Coincidentally, J already had two rats back here at the apartment. They make excellent pets.

Anyway, J started to exit the scene, but his activities had been noticed by a big frat guy. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" asked the frat guy. So J told him. The frat guy then proceeded to key the car. "What do you think I should key into it?" he asked J.

"How about, 'Kill yourself with a stiletto heel.'"

J participated no further in the vandalism. He took the rat to a vet's office, where the lucky rodent was given some shots for malnutrition and vaccinations. The bill would have been about $70(!) but they felt sorry for J and dropped it down to $40.

Splinter now has a permanent home here and is getting along well with Turd Factory and Chunk. I have been educated about squish videos and crush videos.