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.
Snuff
(1975)
Perhaps the most boring, inept and pathetic 'notorious' film of all time.
3 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers