It’s #FAKE that photos of cannibalism are in Epstein’s files; images show behind-the-scenes footage of a horror film.

Scenes from a short horror film have been falsely associated with documents from a billionaire accused of running a sex trafficking ring involving minors.

What are the images like?

Published on X on Wednesday (4), the post has the following caption “According to the latest dossier on Epstein, a woman is served on a chicken-like plate, with various stuffed foods behind her”.

But this is not true. The images are from behind the scenes of a horror short film called Thanksgiving, from 2007. The production was shown in cinemas in the United States during the intermission of the film Grindhouse, by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, as if it were a trailer for a film that would be released.

The post shows two images of adults and children gathered around a table. On it, there is what appears to be the body of a person lying on a plate, with an appearance similar to that of a roasted turkey.

The content also went viral on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and YouTube amid the unfolding of the release of more than 3 million pages of the Epstein case files by the United States Department of Justice.

⚠️ Why is this false?

The images are actually from behind the scenes of the horror short film Thanksgiving (2007), by American director Eli Roth, shown in American cinemas during the intermission of Grindhouse, a double feature by directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

The short film takes place during the US Thanksgiving holiday and parodies horror productions of the “slasher” genre, which usually involves a killer chasing a group of people and graphic scenes of violence.

To find the origin of the content, Fato ou Fake performed a reverse image search on Google Lens and Yandex, a Russian search engine similar to Google. This search serves to verify if the content had been previously reproduced by reliable sources – and in what context.

The result led to several social media posts indicating that the images were from the Thanksgiving short film. Fato ou Fake found the trailer for the production, which features a scene with the same people as the fake post (see below).

Yandex pointed out that the same images appear in the behind-the-scenes section available on The Quentin Tarantino Archives, a fan site that gathers records of the director’s productions.