Too much of everything

Pretty Good

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

First time I'd seen the film recently, but have been meaning to watch it for years. Watching it out of time, as opposed to watching it on a dodgy video or flea pit cinema when it came out, Snuff/ The Slaughter is pretty much standard viewing for these kind of films. Seen better but who cares. The ending is worth hanging out for just for the effect of being ripped out of the plot that came before it. A great idea and a breaking of the fourth wall that I haven't seen bettered. Forget the negative reviews or the dodgy effects (including bad lighting half way through), and be entertained! On a side note, check out Blood Sucking Freaks. And learn how to cook chicken the right way.

I vaguely remember the outrage over this one, but finally seeing it years later, I'll embarrassingly admit it was kinda fun. The real movie is a pretty disjointed Manson cult movie called "Slaughter" with a gang of pretty girls who worship a dude named Satan (suh-TAHN). He makes them kill for drugs and money. The gang of hotties is pretty brutal to a girl named Ann. An American actress comes to Brazil to make a movie, takes a lover and gets pregnant. Satan says the child is supposed to be a sacrifice, and from there on out, nothing makes a lot of sense, but we do get some shots of Carnival. But you don't care about the real movie. What brings you to rent the infamous "Snuff" is, well, the infamous snuff sequence. SPOILERS FOLLOW As the main movie ends, the camera pulls back to reveal a film crew. A guy and a girl are making out on a bed and it turns out it's a snuff film! Her arm is cut, a finger is chopped of with pliers, her other hand is cut off with a ripsaw - wholesome stuff. Then she's cut open and her guts are played with for a while. The screen goes blank and you can hear the crew talk about how they ran out of film. How conveeenient. It's not very well done, or even all that shocking. In fact, all the tacked on snuff sequence did was make me want to see all of "Slaughter." But you live and learn.

Snuff (1976) * (out of 4) Notorious Argentina film, which was released in the States being promoted as a real snuff film. The producer actually hired Women's Rights groups to protest the films since there was a claim that the ending was real. The start of the film deals with a Manson like group who murder an actress, ala Sharon Tate. The ending is the only real highlight as we get to see the snuff footage of a woman being cut up on a bed. The effects look quite real and are very effective.That said, the reputation of this film has kept it alive all these years but I think most will be disappointed when they finally see the product.

"Snuff" is actually a pretty notorious little film for propagating the snuff film myths.However it's also really bad,an amateurishly acted,written and dubbed Charlie Manson inspired story about a crazed hippy who controls pretty girls and makes them worship him and kill.The 5-minutes long pseudo-snuff segment added to the end of the film contains the sequence in which an actress in the movie is slashed,her fingers and hands chopped off and then disemboweled in unconvincing,prototypical Guinea Pig fashion.If you want to see the closest thing to snuff ever put on screen try to find Psychic TV's very graphic "First Transmission" video from 1982.