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Snuff Reviews:
This was funny
2008-12-20 - I give this movie 3 stars, for unintentional humor. I'd say it's a cult movie, But not a good movie about snuff films.

All the hype conceals a very, very bad movie.
2008-07-18 - Snuff (Michael and Roberta Findlay, 1976)

So I finally got around to seeing Michael and Roberta Findlay's infamous Snuff, the movie that coined the term "snuff film" for a film where, supposedly, someone is murdered on camera. Unfortunately, the scene from which the film (and the larger genre) drive its name occurs in the final three minutes. I say "unfortunately" because you're forced to watch the first seventy-seven minutes before you get there.

Those first seventy-seven minutes seem to involve something about biker gangs and Satanism, but I could never quite figure out what was supposed to be going on at any given time. Not that I cared much; the acting is so bad that I couldn't force myself to pay attention most of the time, and this was not in any way helped by the pedestrian direction, horrible lighting, and terrible sound mix. And no, it wasn't a degraded copy, because the gap in quality between the rest of the film and the infamous final scene makes it obvious that it was intended that way.

Needless to say (I hope), if snuff films actually exist, no one's ever documented their existence; also needless to say, faux snuff films have been done far better in the thirty years since this one. (The most infamous, Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, is still the best, as far as my experience goes.) If you're curious to see it for that reason, in other words, look elsewhere and be better satisfied. And if you're not curious to see it for that reason... well, what else could you possibly want here? There's no artistic value to this at all. You might get a couple of chuckles out of how bad it is, I guess.

It's worse than Findlay's Shriek of the Mutilated. And that's saying something. *



Not very entertaining
2006-07-11 - I love cheesy movies. I love terrible acting, terrible direction, terrible scripts, everything. However, I have little patience if the movie as a whole is boring. There's just not a lot here. Ignore the hype - there was no real murder on the set, no one died to make this "film", the murder was (poorly, in fact) staged.

I had always seen this DVD on the shelf at Borders and the packaging and tag line ("a film that could only be made in South America where life is cheap") looked intriguing. Then I read about the film in David Kerekes's great book, Killing for Culture. The book, by the way, is incredibly good. I foolishly disregarded his warning that Snuff is a mess of a movie. If you're reading this review, you're probably a fan of the exploitation picture. I recommend getting Kerekes's book and reading about Snuff rather than buying the expensive DVD.

Snuff presents itself as a genuine video nasty - something sinister, sick, and twisted. It's really just amateur hour. It does have a few unintentionally funny moments (as these films often do), but it drags in so many places that it's almost not worth the effort. The time would be better spent watching any of the following

Last House on the Left
Last House on Dead End Street
I Spit on Your Grave
Toolbox Murders
etc.

These movies are great. Snuff isn't. Don't waste your time and money.

THE ONLY MOVIE PULLED BECAUSE OF A REAL MURDER ON SET
2005-09-16 - THIS MOVIE WAS NOT THAT GREAT BUT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION BY MY FATHER WHEN HE TOLD ME ABOUT THE REAL LIFE MURDER AND POSSIBLY ANOTHER THAT HAPPENED DURING THE FILMING OF THE MOVIE. THE SCENE THAT TOOK PLACE WITH THE GUY TIED TO THE TREE HE WAS REALLY MURDER THE DIRECTOR WANT REALISM AND THAT SCENE WAS THE REAL MURDER THAT HAPPENED.

"Forgive me for my ignorance, but I am fascinated by it...."
2005-05-06 - When sitting down to review this film I was torn between whether it deserved one or five stars. I had known about "Snuff" for quite some time and was very excited when I found that it was availble on DVD. I originally read a great deal about the subject matter for a paper I did on horror movies reflecting cultural fears for a film class, but never got around seeing the film (it was not readily available at the time). This movie is so bad that it truly is a work of art.

"Snuff" was filmed in Argentina (apparently originally to be titled either "El Angel de la muerte" or "American Cannibale") in 1971 or 1972 with out sound and dubbed in America. The premise of this film is loosely based on the Manson murders, although the Manson character named Sataan looked more like a 70's teen hearthrob (like Bobby Sherman) with 5 o'clock shadow. There are plenty of attractive 70's women including a "Sharon Tate" type character who looks like a cross between Jane Birkin and Astrud Gilberto. Everything about this movie is truly wretched, with the exception the music which is in much the style of the Velvet Underground, Brainticket, Amon Duul II and Can playing sort of a "Born to be Wild" themed jam. The dialogue is quite humorous including the leading lady's excellent line, "Please forgive me of my ignorance, but I am facinated by it..." when speaking to her supposidely German (he looked latin, although you would think they could find some Germans somewhere in Argentina) lover's father about his weapon manufacturing business.

The original director (A.Bochin?!?) realized this film was too lousy to release, scraping it before it was complete, sitting on the shelf until 1976 when Michael Findlay added the "snuff" ending to it. Apparently this ending garnered the movie serious attention, although most of it started with a publicity stunt including fake police investigations, fake banning and "plants" in the audience to feign horror, fainting and sickness over the subject matter. In fact more was put into the overall publicity of this film, than in to film itself. It was truly a Warholian event.

The amusing thing about the movie is some people thought it was real. I have yet to see Tempura paint that actually looks like blood, although the reason for using orange-red Tempura in this film is beyond me. In some of the murder scenes, you can actually see the blood on the clothes before the stabbing takes place!! The attached "snuff" ending looks nothing like the original film. The original movie, as I mentioned was filmed in 1972 and the added bit at the end was filmed in 1975 or 1976 with no attempt to get an actress who looked anything like any of the actresses in the original movie or keep in mind that styles had changed in three years time. Also the apparent "snuffing" of the actress is absurdly fake, including cutting fingers off with a pair of wire cutters and cutting a whole hand off with a jigsaw (and these are clean cuts too!!!!). Those are pretty impressive wire cutters and a mean jigsaw if they can cut cleanly through skin, muscle and bone.

This movie has to be seen to be believed.