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¡Dios mio!, 5 January 2001
1/10
Author: Cobra-10 from MD

"Snuff" is quite laughably bad. Lame acting, idiotic dialogue, terrible voice-overs, and poor picture quality (even for 1971) is strongly evident here. Bad movie buffs will undoubtedly like this one.

The movie begins with a cokehead next to a rusted-out train and chicks on motorcycles with a faux-Steppenwolf soundtrack (it sounds like the beginning of "Born to Be Wild") in the background that repeats ad nauseum and can be heard at various times throughout the film. From then on it is a violent war among drug dealers. There are many murder scenes involving knives, guns, and even jigsaws, all of which are poorly staged and very humorous. There was one particular scene where the biker chicks go to a local store and give the clerk quite a scare; you have to see the expression on his face when he says, "¡Dios mio!". The chicks then notice a car outside and, in a very silly manner, do away with the occupants.

The end is an obvious fabrication of a supposedly real mutilation of a woman, who is supposedly one of the actresses in the "film" that has lead up to this point. I might have been grossed out if it looked more real. The entire premise that this final killing scene is a behind-the-scenes pointless death experience of an actress that played in the film is completely ridiculous.

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Brilliant marketing !!, 3 September 2001
Author: MADMANMARZ from bklyn ny

Credit must be given to the people behind Snuff. They took a very poorly made biker-drug war movie, tacked a phony real murder of one of the actress and the rest is history. Much has been written about the Finleys and the history of this movie. Enjoy the first 85 or so minutes and look at it for what it is a low rent action/gore film, than prepare yourself for the mock snuff murder with finger chopping and intestine ripping! Watch it for the historical value only. For quality look elsewhere!

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Categorically the worst viewing experience I can recall, 8 May 2007
Author: DVD_Connoisseur from England

It may come as a surprise to learn that my DVD of "Snuff" is the most played disc in my collection. I must add that this isn't down to the film's playability. No, the reason why this DVD was played night after night was its amazing sleep-inducing properties. It took me at least 4 or 5 attempts to finally finish this movie. "Snuff" is as bad as the reviews say. In fact, it's worse.

Despite some interesting ingredients (a bevy of beautiful women, a seventies' soundtrack with an interesting Steppenwolf-like quality, a splattering of blood and gore, exotic settings, etc.), the film manages to be way beyond the realms of enjoyment.

The last 5 minutes that gave this film its notoriety can be caught on documentaries such as UK Channel 4's "The Dark Side of Porn - Does Snuff Exist?" Even if you're a completist, save your money. This film just isn't worth the outlay.

Dire. 1 out of 10.

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Perhaps the most boring, inept and pathetic 'notorious' film of all time., 3 March 2006
1/10
Author: tankjonah from Australia

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Notorious film which tried to pass off its obviously staged murder at the end as real and hence we get the title of the film. Defenders of the film, although God knows why anyone would defend this boring and embarrassing piece of trash, may claim that it's obviously easier these days (where we've become accustomed to superior special effect)to say that it's obviously fake since the special effects are crude by today's standards. But really the special effects in the final scene in Snuff are no better than those in Hershell Gordon Lewis' trashy films of the 60s and 70s. At least his films had loads of gore and were funny-bad. Snuff has nothing to recommend it. The first 75 minutes seem to be an inept and boring Argentinian film dubbed into English, with some absurd plot about an actress being exploited to appear in porn, her new boyfriend and the Mansonesque leader whose hippie biker chicks end up doing him and her in. We then get the final five minutes (the so-called 'snuff' footage) before the film 'runs out'. Don't waste your time as I did.

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Snuff Bluff, 17 July 2004
5/10
Author: precinct 13 from Melbourne, Australia

I finally found this film after a long anticipation, so I bought it and threw it in. I knew nothing about this before I watched it, because I was so intrigued and maybe even scared. The opening is a motorcycle sequence with a slightly changed "Born to Be Wild" instrumental over the top of the scene. The film thus far was incoherent, and I wondered if that would change. The bad adr voice dubbing was so out of synch, that these actors must have never have spoken English for the fact that their lips are not delayed but instead move completely different from the soundtrack. This is confirmed by the fact that the whole cast was comprised mostly of Argentinian actors who spoke no English and the film was shot in silent and sound dubbed in post production. I was expecting the film to be one long film about the concept of "snuff films" and I thought that would have been spooky yet interesting.

The film is made up of around 70 minutes of footage from Michael and Roberta Findlay's unreleased film entitled Slaughter (1971), and then as the last scene approaches the camera cuts to supposed behind the scenes footage from the film we have been watching, then showing the cast and crew being turned on by the violence they have been filming for fictional film. The greater part of it is an Argentinian shocker which was probably happy being buried in quick dry cement for an eternity. After knowing this, I felt violated and ripped off. I am a fan of the Findlays work for obscure reasons, I guess because they are such a big part of underground film history! The only real saving grace for SNUFF, is both the infamous scene, and the best marketing (probably inspired BLAIR WITCH PROJECT) that the world of 1976 ever knew, for a film that doesn't really exist! Monarch Releasing took on Slaughter and shelved it due to shortfalls in bloodshed and coherency, however four years later producer Allan Shackleton hired directors to shoot some fake snuff footage and replace it with the original ending of the film. Shackleton released reports to the press of a supposed snuff film from South America which sparked a large outrage amongst the public and law officials. The story surrounding the film is more exciting than the film itself and I think that Shackleton deserves plenty of kudos for his great marketing ideas for a nothing film, even if his publicity sham was at the American public's expense.

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You'll get what you deserve, 8 June 2009
4/10
Author: happyendingrocks from United States

Any glutton who loves awful movies has sat through dozens of inherently unwatchable films in the hopes of finding the rare beast that is both completely un-viewable and completely awesome at the same time. While Snuff leans more ardently toward the former, the current DVD presentation of this film helps this deservedly obscure classic drift a bit toward the latter.

Let's clarify that this film wasn't intended to be passed off as an actual "snuff" film. If such a genre truly existed, which we won't debate here since we're clearly talking about a film that is NOT a "snuff" movie, chances are it would look a bit more like the footage hinted at in Mute Witness or 8mm than a carefully edited multi-camera affair with dubbed audio and generous arrays of stock Carnavale footage. If anyone ever truly believed that filmmakers murdered someone on camera and surrounded that footage with a pseudo-story about biker chicks who kill random people in surprisingly un-bloody ways, somehow found a way to bypass all of those dicey regulations concerning murder and its illegalites, and found a distributor to get a theatrical release for said footage... Seriously, no one did. I promise you.

Yes, this movie is tedious, far too long, and so ineptly made that I can not find a single reason to recommend it. To normal people, that is. However, if you actually know what this film is, and still have any interest in seeing it, then you kind of need to see it, because it is as wretched an example of film-making as you could ever hope to encounter. Scene after scene, it is a shining an example of crappy C-grade schlock. But, you know, some of us really love crappy C-grade schlock.

We don't want good dubbing, quality special effects, or actors who had heard of the phenomenon of "acting" before the cameras were turned on them. We aren't concerned with continuity, character development, or coherent story structure. We simply want to spend 80 minutes of our life watching something that vaguely resembles a film, yet ends up being an hour and twenty minute exercise in incredulity that forces us to question what's wrong with us for enjoying something that is clearly so un-enjoyable.

This film is a joke. And one would suspect that the film-makers knew this. Now, the reason that Snuff is awesome is that not only did a piece of unwatchable trash like this gain some level of infamy, but 30 years later, there is a reasonably intelligent person sitting at their computer typing this missive at 3:33 in the morning, and another one reading said missive because they have yet to view this film.

Ignore what you've heard about the grand guignol finale of this film, because it truly is a disturbing bit of nastiness. The fact that it follows such a laughably bad precursor is probably the point of this entire affair. And kudos to Blue Underground for presenting this film as they did, in a package without cover art, synopsis, or special features, which, contrary to the numerous criticisms of this I've read, captures this film perfectly. If you would really want a Criterion Collection pressing of Snuff, then you are clearly missing the point.

Fans of terrible movies won't find one much more primitive than this (although I'd also tip my hat to The Last Slumber Party). If that sounds appealing to you, then you will thoroughly enjoy Snuff. If not, I really have to question what you thought you were in store for when you popped in a non-existent-budget South American film from the 70's called "Snuff".

Do I recommend this? No, absolutely not. But do I own it and love the fact I own it? I kind of have to...

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Lame Film With An OK Tacked On Ending..., 23 February 2006
6/10
Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic

Man...haven't watched this one in a LLLLOOOONNNNGGGG time. Just rented it the other day for the hell of it - and my opinion of it now isn't much different than it was about 15 years ago when I first saw this mess.

Snuff is mostly made up of an Argentinian film called THE SLAUGHTER that got shelved (for good reason...). It's about a group of girls who kill people because a Charles Manson-ish cult-leader says so. At the end of this film is some fake tacked-on snuff footage that's "supposed" to look like the real thing - but it doesn't.

I have to agree with those that say that SNUFF is a historically relevant film if - if nothing else. One of the greatest marketing campaigns ever - taking a film no one cared about, throwing on some footage that probably cost under $100 to film, and re-releasing it as authentic snuff footage - and probably making a "killing" off of it. Granted, the end "snuff" footage is pretty gory and mean-spirited, but is OBVIOUSLY faked. How he pulled the girls "heart" out of her stomach is a feat of modern science. The SLAUGHTER film footage is a very dull and uninspired exploit-style film and doesn't hold up on its own merit. A few tits and some insanely cheesy over-dubbed dialog...and a great fake "Born To Be Wild" soundtrack...Worth a look to sleaze fans just to say you did...6/10 only for the semi-decent "snuff" footage at the end, and for the films overall status as a "classic" sleaze-fest...

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Really silly 70s flashback., 14 January 2004
4/10
Author: headtrauma420 from austin, tx

OK first of all, if you watch this movie because you are expecting a real snuff film (or at least a realistic looking fake), you will be greatly disappointed.

First of all, there's no record of an actual snuff film being made. The fact that there is a DVD of this film available should tell you right away there's no way that it could be real snuff. If snuff exists, it is an extremely well kept secret.

Second, the snuff scene is so fake that I can't believe that anyone actually believed that it was real. You can see exactly how the gore was faked, not to mention the fact that the actress is not very good.

If you watch this film, watch it for the movie preceeding the snuff scene. It is extremely poorly written, directed and acted, but it is so bad that it will make you laugh. My friend and I think that this movie should be called SATAN'S B*TCHES, because it's kinda like CHARLIE'S ANGELS, but the women are evil and their master is Satan (pronounced Suh-TAWN). Rent this one if you just want to see a funny 70s movie.

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Miss Terri London is an actress and she'll do anything to give a good performance!, 16 November 2008
4/10
Author: lastliberal from Florida

Snuff is believed to be one of the bases for the urban legend of snuff films. It is one of the video nasties that were banned in Britain on its release, but later allowed to be shown uncut in 2003. It is reported the 1971 film The Slaughter with a new ending making it a "snuff" film.

While actress Terri London (Mirtha Massa) is frolicking with her lover (Clao Villanueva), Satan (Enrique Larratelli) and his biker chicks are plotting the murder of her producer, Max Marsh (Aldo Mayo), to free her to bear a child for sacrifice.

Terrible acting, a script that makes no real sense, lots of boobage, but nothing spectacular, dismemberment, and disembowelment as they pretend to really kill a girl at the end.

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Crappy film slightly redeemed by its infamous pseudo-snuff conclusion., 9 December 2007
3/10
Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

"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.

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