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So much average

Just perfect...

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Back when I was in my early teens, and starting to form a morbid curiosity with death (the arrival on the internet fuelled many a child's lust for real and graphic violence), I was discussing something horrific I'd seen whilst browsing this new medium with my mother. She told me about when her and my dad were married (my dad was then a police officer during the Video Nasty-era), they would often watch the films he had seized (I don't think he was supposed to be doing that, but oh well), and how they had once stumbled upon a real snuff film. I argued that snuff films don't actually exist, and are merely a myth, but she told me in detail about the film ending, and how the crew butchered one of the actresses, cutting off her fingers before disembowelling her. I didn't believe her, but she was adamant. So over ten years on, I text her to re-assure that she had been duped by Snuff, a massive s**t-stain of a movie whose faux-snuff climax was exactly how she described. I actually wish it had been real snuff, because I wouldn't have had to waste 90 minutes of my life on this absolute drivel.Snuff is actually a shelved film called The Slaughter from 1971, directed by Michael Findlay. Given it had a very limited theatrical run and was a babbling, incoherent mess, the film was shelved for four years until producer Allan Shackleton heard about the taboo-of-the-week snuff films, which were reportedly being made in South America. The Slaughter tells the story of a porn actress Terry London (Mirtha Massa) who is frolicking with her rich lover Horst (Clao Villanueva), while somewhere else, a man called Satan (pronounced Sa-taan, played by Enrique Larratelli) is a Charles Manson-type cult leader who has somehow managed to enslave a bunch of sexy biker chicks. Some murders happen, I don't really know why, but it has something to do with Terry and Horst producing a baby for sacrifice. For what reason, again, I don't know. Shackleton seized the opportunity and tacked on an ending filmed by Simon Nuchtern, which depicted one of the actresses filming The Slaughter being murdered by the crew, and re-released it as Snuff.I'll hand it to Shackleton, it was a bloody clever idea to turn one of the most ludicrously muddled and pointless film I've ever seen into something that would make money. Although nowadays, the 'snuff' murder at the end is not convincing (the scene is edited, features bad dubbing, and has sound effects), I can imagine it convincing people back in the day. And it's actually well done - the moving hand after it has been chopped off was particularly effective - but whether it's more convincing because it's coming after an hour and a half of absolute w**k, I don't know. But it's a lot to get through, even with it's slender running time, and when you think the film is about to start to make sense, it cuts to a nonsensical scene where somebody inevitably gets their t**s out and the whole thing falls apart. Add to that the worst dubbing ever committed to screen, actors that would embarrass H.G. Lewis, and a plot of such astounding levels of bull-s**t it would make Ed Wood jealous, you have one of the worst experiences that cinema has ever offered. Avoid at all costs.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

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.

I do not want to repeat former comments about the low quality of this film but as a fan of Joe Bob Briggs I do give it one breast for 2-3 gratuitous topless scenes and 1 lacy pantie scene. Perhaps it should have been subtitled Snuff w/ a little naughty stuff. It is a good 100 min of escape and enjoyment if you accept that most films are made on a shoestring and this one did not disappoint on a dollar for dollar basis. Think Waterworld and Heaven's Gate. Movies should be seen as entertainment kind of like jokes or short stories. There are classic jokes (The Aristocrats) and classic short stories (Gift of the Magi), but bad jokes and bad short stories don't mean the genre is bad. Roll with campy humor/horror. It is one of the last vestiges of the vaudeville concepts of over the top presentations

Snuff is in no way a good movie, I should start with that. I hadn't even heard of this movie until recently and figured that it should be in my library. It is worth a viewing, I will give it that. And it is not the movie that makes it worth your time, it is the end.The plot begins with several women on motorcycles who go off and kill this girl for "Holding out on them". Then we meet Sattan (I think that is his name) who is a Charlie Manson wannabe. He apparently has control over these woman and can make them do whatever he wants. Next, we are introduced to an actress coming into South America with her director to start filming a new movie. She meets up with an old flame and then the director is murdered by the crazy women. The storyline goes back and forth from the wannabe Manson family to the actress all leading up to a bunch of random hilarious murders.This movie was a struggle to sit through due to its extremely slow first half. Things do finally pick up when a new girl joins up with the wannabe Manson family and starts telling her tale. After that, we just see a lot of silliness and a great scene at a general store in which the women murder everyone there. Look for the girl in the scene whose mother has just been murdered because her acting is priceless. Finally, the end of the movie is really what makes it all worth while. The director in the end tries to simulate an actual murder. The results are silly for todays standards but was still pretty nifty looking with a pair of clippers chopping off fingers and ripping out guts. I liked it, even if it was fake. So if you read this review ignore the low rating the movie gets on IMDb, which is like a 2/10. I would give this movie a 7/10 for enjoyment and the end sequence.