where life is CHEAP", but that was false advertising. The promotion of Snuff on its second release suggested it featured the murder of an actress: "The film that could only be made in South America. In an interview decades later, Roberta Findlay said the film's distributor Allan Shackleton had read about snuff films being imported from South America and retitled Slaughter to Snuff, to exploit the idea he also added a new ending that depicted an actress being murdered on a film set. This low-budget exploitation horror film, originally titled Slaughter, was directed by Michael and Roberta Findlay. Hagin also proposes that the film Network (1976) contains an explicit (fictional) snuff film depiction when television news executives orchestrate the on-air murder of a news anchor to boost ratings.Īccording to film critic Geoffrey O'Brien, "whether or not commercially distributed 'snuff' movies actually exist, the possibility of such movies is implicit in the stock B-movie motif of the mad artist killing his models, as in A Bucket of Blood (1959), Color Me Blood Red (1965), or Decoy for Terror (1967) also known as Playgirl Killer." The concept of "snuff films" being made for profit became more widely known with the commercial film Snuff (1976). That year, Polish-French writer Guillaume Apollinaire published the short story "A Good Film" about newsreel photojournalists who stage and film a murder due to public fascination with crime news in the story, the public believes the murder is real but police determine that the crime was faked. įilm studies professor Boaz Hagin argues that the concept of snuff films originated decades earlier than is commonly believed, at least as early as 1907. It was defined in 1874 as a "term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident". The word has been used in this sense in English slang for hundreds of years. The noun snuff originally meant the part of a candle wick that has already burned the verb snuff meant to cut this off, and by extension to extinguish or kill. He alleges that the Manson Family was involved in making such a film in California to record their murders.
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The first known use of the term snuff movie is in a 1971 book by Ed Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. Some filmed records of executions and deaths in war exist, but in those cases the death was not specifically staged for financial gain or entertainment. They can be and often are pornographic, and they may or may not be made for financial gain but are supposedly "circulated amongst a jaded few for the purpose of entertainment". A snuff film, or snuff movie, is a movie in a purported genre of movies in which a person is actually murdered or commits suicide.
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