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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf poses with his old Jeep, a vehicle that was the centerpiece of an ad the campaign pulled Monday after a news site reported that one of the Jeep owners featured had starred in a pornographic film.

(Photo courtesy of Wolf for Pa.)

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct an erorr. The film involved consists of what is known as "torture porn," which is a type of horror movie.

Tom Wolf's gubernatorial campaign pulled a recently released ad from YouTube and Facebook Monday after the news site BuzzFeed revealed one of the Jeep owners featured in the ad had previously starred in a "torture porn" film.

Torture porn is a term coined to refer to a film that has no theme, but shows violence images of people having body parts removed..

Campaign spokesman Jeff Sheridan told PennLive Monday afternoon that the actor, Alan Benyak, was not hired by a production company.

He wasn't acting for the Wolf ad, but he was one of several "people who own Jeeps and agreed to be in a commercial." Wolf, a Democrat, has made his old Jeep a centerpiece of his campaign. The ad used Jeep owners to share facts about Wolf.

According to BuzzFeed, Benyak is a former Army lawyer and former judicial candidate whose Central Pennsylvania practice includes real estate and estate planning. In the commercial, he tells the audience that Wolf served in the Peace Corps.

BuzzFeed reported that Benyak starred as "Mr. Cannibal" in a film called "Breeding Farm," the plot of which involves four friends being kidnapped by a mysterious man for use at a human breeding farm.