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	Snuff Film; Making of an Urban Legend (Skeptical Inquirer May 1999)
		The myth of the snuff film, on the other hand, is a prime example of a cinematic urban legend.
		Not only had the notoriety of the film snowballed to unprecedented proportions, but it had become accepted "fact" that snuff films were a real national scourge and no amount of debunking would change the public's opinion.
		Yet it is not only the claims of deceived individuals that help to perpetuate the myth; every time that snuff films are even mentioned in modern fiction and cinema, they are giving credence to the rumors, playing on the reader's or viewer's assumptions that they are real to begin with.
	www.csicop.org /si/9905/snuff.html (3538 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is there such a thing as a snuff film?
		Rumor has it that that he then incited women's groups to picket the film under the [erroneous] impression that the murder scene was an actual killing.
		Every few years since then snuff movies have been back in the news, either because some nut is accused of trying to make one (never successfully) or the tabloids report some sensational claim, e.g., that the main centers for the snuff movie industry are London, Amsterdam, and Bangkok.
		McIlvenny says the third film involving an actual death was a bizarre religious number from Morocco in which a hunchbacked kid was torn apart by wild horses while men stood around and masturbated.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_258.html (614 words)

	Snuff film Totally Explained
		A snuff film, or snuff movie, is a pop culture term for any number of possible definitions regarding a motion picture purporting to depict an actual death.
		The most common definition of a snuff film is of a motion picture showing the actual murder of a human being that's produced, perpetrated, and distributed solely for the purpose of profit.
		Given these criteria, the existence of snuff films is highly questionable, and commercial snuff films have long been relegated by skeptics to the realm of urban legend and moral panic.
	snuff_movie.totallyexplained.com (0 words)

	Snuff film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A snuff film is a film that depicts the killing, or more specifically, the murdering, of a human being (without the aid of special effects or other trickery) perpetrated for the medium of film and circulated for the purpose of entertainment.
		The concept of snuff films was further publicised by the Paul Schrader film Hardcore (1979), the Alejandro Amenabar film Tesis (1996) and the Nicolas Cage film 8mm (1999).
		The most infamous Guinea Pig film is probably Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood, in which a woman, apparently drugged, is shown chained to a bed as a man in a samurai costume slowly kills her through torture and dismemberment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snuff_film (1762 words)

	Snuff (1975 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Snuff is a 1975 gore film most notorious for being marketed as if it were an actual snuff film.
		Filmed in Argentina in 1971 it depicted the actions of a Manson-esque murder cult.
		Snuff is believed to be one of the bases for the urban legend of snuff films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snuff_(movie) (341 words)

	Killing for Culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Snuff has its genesis in a controversial film which came to be released under the title Snuff.
		The film attracted considerable controversy, cinemas were picketed and the media developed a panic about "snuff movies" which had allegedly been smuggled into the United States.
		The latter films are, they claim, directly inspired by Snuff and serve to concretise the notion of snuff because of the way in which representations of the snuff film are established: what we might call snuff's generic tendencies and working practices, together with a critique of the snuff film as a commodity.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/bookrev/killing_for_culture.htm (954 words)

	Snuff movie : Snuff film
		"Snuff film" is the term used for a film depicting unwitting people performing sexual acts, either willingly or under duress and subsequently are murdered.
		The promoters of the film even went so far as to hire fake protesters to picket the movie theaters where it was being shown.
		The American film "Hardcore" (1979, directed by Paul Schrader)involves a runaway's father (George C. Scott) investigating the veracity of an 8mm film that appears to be of a teenaged girl being murdered.
	www.fastload.org /sn/Snuff_film.html (0 words)

	Snuff
		In fact, this film - which supposedly depicted the actual dismembering of a young girl - caused such a fuss when it played in New York that the mayor demanded that the perpetrators be captured and prosecuted.
		Snuff offers a pleasing and cleansing sensation and those concerned with the effects of tobacco smoking can be assured by the fact that snuff does not reach the lungs.
		Snuff formed in Northern England in 1986 as a response to the drivel its members were hearing on BBC radio.
	www.lycos.com /info/snuff--films.html?page=3 (436 words)

	IGN: The Horror Geek Speaks: Killing for Culture
		For the uninitiated, a 'snuff' film is essentially a real murder (no special FX or trick photography) committed in front of a camera and captured on film (or tape) for the sole purpose of being circulated amongst a small underground network of individuals who find the footage entertaining.
		If the snuff film is the flest of fl sheep in the transgressive cinema family, then its two siblings, the death film and the mondo documentary, are often made outcasts by what amounts to a tenuous association at best.
		The death film isn't a snuff film – primarily because it's newsworthy footage captured on camera as opposed to a cinematic murder.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/377/377761p1.html (1335 words)

	Kinoeye \| Spanish horror: Alejandro Amenabar's Tesis
		The film therefore reiterates the notion of snuff as a rendition of slow, painful death in which the sadistic pleasures lie not in the moment of mortal departure for the victim, but in their gradual psychological and bodily breakdown.
		Therefore, snuff is identified as a "pure" distillation of violent death in film, eliminating all extraneous narrative elements while focusing almost exclusively on the extended struggle, screams and pain of the victim.
		Her ultimate abduction and appearance in Bosco's final snuff film is therefore the logical culmination of her dual fascination- female subject transformed into object as she confronts the locus of her perverse desires in the most terrifying, direct way possible.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/05/jackson05.php (2982 words)

	PlanetPapers - Snuff Films
		Berkowitz or an accomplice filmed Moskowitz's murder, using the street lamp to light the subject as she sat in her car across the street." The 20-year-old Moskowitz was killed in 1977 in Brooklyn.
		When contacted, however, Wyre indicated that the films he saw were "sophisticated simulations" but insisted that the FBI had a number of snuff films in their possession.
		Snuff was so cheap that for four years prior to its release it had sat gathering dust in a New York distributor's office, Monarch Releasing Corporation to be exact, and it wasn't known as Snuff back then, it was called Slaughter.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2136.php (2668 words)

	Snuff films legend
		The American film "Hardcore" (1979, directed by Paul Schrader)involves a runaway's father (George C. Scott) investigating the veracity of an 8mm film that appears to be of a teenage girl being murdered.
		The pair of killers discover that someone has witnessed their death shoot, and from this point on the picture basically traces Billy's efforts at (i) staying alive with the baddies on her trail, and (ii) convincing others (including her sister's boyfriend and the Russian police) that what she witnessed was not just a fictional murder.
		Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full color photography, documentary techniques, and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence, and the cinema.
	www.jahsonic.com /Snuff.html (1645 words)

	snuff film@Everything2.com
		The basic snuff film has a subject, usually an abductee, who is tortured with various instruments of mutilation for most of the duration of the film.
		The film often ends with the final "snuffing" of the victim in a savage orgy of carnage (sometimes chainsaws are used).
		According to the FBI, snuff films are an urban legend.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=112583&lastnode_id=0 (1391 words)

	Snuff (1976) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Snuff is one of those feature films whose title has entered the English language.
		The film, directed by grindhouse auteurs Michael and Roberta Findlay, is also responsible for spawning a small sub-genre of movies about snuff movies that includes Mute Witness, The Red Siren, 8mm and the excellent Spanish thriller Tesis.
		Rather it is the Findlays' 1971 exploitation film The Slaughter - the tale of a Charles Manson-like biker cult bent on killing a filmmaker and his daughter - with a fresh ending tagged on, supposedly featuring footage of a real murder.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=129436 (182 words)

	Snuff Online - Cyb3r Crim3
		Snuff films, as you may or may not know, are films that show someone being murdered.
		Unlike video that inadvertently captures a murder, a snuff film is made deliberately; the murder is the purpose and the centerpiece of the film.
		They would argue that the filming is itself an integral part of the crime being committed, that the entire purpose of a snuff film is to memorialize the act.
	steeplemedia.com /blogs/cyb3r_crim3/archive/2007/04/13/25228.aspx (1696 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Snuff Films
		Films are routinely made for entertainment purposes in which participants are murdered on camera.
		Possibly the most famous of all films pointed to as "snuff" is the Faces Of Death series, a sequence of six videos made up of footage of accidents, suicides, autopsies, and executions, liberally peppered with outright fakes scenes.
		When it comes to snuff films, it's easy to be romanced by what appears in the news into believing verifiable examples of the genre are out there.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/madmen/snuff.asp (3350 words)

	Urban Dictionary: snuff
		Except in snuff films, the actors are real people and the victim of the murder scene is actually killed on film.
		A type of porno film often on 8mm where a woman is murdered or raped in a violent manner.
		Don't be a dick or i'll snuff you.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=snuff (368 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: 8mm
		The "MM" stands for millimeter, as in film, but it could also mean murky melodrama because that's what this is. The plot, written by Andrew Kevin Walker ("Seven") and directed by Joel Schumacher ("Batman and Robin"), revolves around the sordid world of violent, sexual pornography.
		It appears to be an illegal snuff film - that is, the lurid, brutal slaughter of a teenage-girl by a man wearing a leather mask and wielding a machete.
		The way Cage reacts while watching the horrifying snuff film parallels George C. Scott's reaction in "Hardcore" (1979) and film buffs will spot subsequent resemblances to "Taxi Driver," and "Seven." The bizarre characters are implausible, undeveloped, and unintentionally funny at times.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos/8mm.htm (293 words)

	The Bridge - Exit - Movies - New York Times
		The history of snuff is a murky one, riddled with urban myths and cloaked in the slaughterhouse stench of 70’s exploitation.
		There has been no generally accepted verification of the existence of a snuff film as it is strictly defined: a movie in which a premeditated killing takes place for the benefit of the camera, and by implication the viewer.
		In the film, the sequence is paused and replayed, pored over and analyzed, inevitably bringing to mind another endlessly scrutinized death clip: the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/10/22/movies/22lim.html?ei=5088&en=a93170d152f65714&ex=1319169600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print (1277 words)

	Snuff on the Web: Real?
		A popular Hollywood movie recently focused attention on the business of perversity in films, namely "snuff" films in which someone is actually murdered for the enjoyment of certain people who get off on that sort of voyeurism.
		The term "snuff" was first used in 1970, when Alan Shakleton made an exploitation film based on a Manson Family rip-off film called "Slaughter." Shakleton called his film, "Snuff in New York City".
		Many critics consider this recent rash of tapes and programs to be legitimate snuff, but -- if you consider the definition presented by the FBI -- these products are excluded from the genre, since none of the deaths were committed for the sole purpose of entertainment.
	www.viewzone.com /xtreme/snuff.film.html (1373 words)

	snuff.html
		Snuff was released on the heels of a hysteria brought about by rumors of a "snuff" movie being made somewhere in the American southwest, or possibly in South America.
		Some held the Manson "family" had shot such footage in the course of their 1969 rampage; others had vaguer stories to tell of cults who produced snuff movies as a part of Satanic rituals, or traffickers in child pornography whose film loops culminated in the killing and mutilation of their stars.
		And we had converted it into what in the film business is called an insert studio, in that it wasn't -- you know, it was a small space, it was suitable for shooting commercials, little films, that kind of thing.
	www.aboutfilm.com /aboutcultfilm/features/snuff.html (4342 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Snuff (1976)
		Snuff is one of those movies, and the story behind the film had repercussions that are with us to this day.
		In fact none of the informants had seen the films in question or had any real first hand knowledge about them, and there is absolutely no physical evidence that any such films were ever shot.
		The lack of evidence was not much of a hurdle to the belief that snuff films might actually exist, however.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/s/snuff.html (2096 words)

	Snuff Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Variously advertised as being “The film that could only be made in South America...where life is CHEAP!” and “The bloodiest thing that ever happened in front of a camera!”, the whole thing is of course a big con.
		They released the film without credits and manufactured protests outside the cinemas who stooped low enough to exhibit it in an effort to establish the picture (in the public mind, at any rate) as a bona fide snuff film.
		An America reeling in the wake of the Manson killings, and awash with rumours of a south-of-the-border snuff film industry was all too prepared to buy it.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /contamination/snuff_rev.htm (288 words)

	Final Cuts: The History of Snuff Films
		Since the early seventies rumors have persisted that murders are routinely filmed and circulated among a shadowy clientele hungry for the most extreme forms of "entertainment." However, time and again, these claims are proven false; or, if a movie is located, the execution is quickly exposed as a fake.
		With the news of snuff films he sensed an angle and played it to the hilt.
		Snuff is the Frankenstein monster of the media age, the boogeyman that lurks at the crossroads of unchecked media freedom and commercial demand.
	www.fringeunderground.com /snuff.html (2155 words)

	Snuff - xyclopedia - the history of pornography and sexual expression
		The nastiest of all nasty porn films is the snuff film, where the actress is murdered during orgasm.
		Snuff film mythology began in 1973 with Raymond Gauer, the president of the Citizens for Decency through Law, an anti-pornography organization.
		The men filmed themselves sexually assaulting and torturing a 21-year-old woman for a snuff film they had hoped to sell in America for $16,000.
	www.xyclopedia.net /Snuff (1848 words)

	Snuff
		At one point, the film wallows in stock footage of a carnival, with costumes, dancers, parades, etc. And when the lead characters aren't at the carnival, they're participating in boring sex scenes or pining for loved ones.
		Producer Allan Shackleton acquired the Findlays' film, which was shot in 1971 and originally titled SLAUGHTER (and reportedly played a few theaters under this title, to disastrous business), and for some odd reason decided to tack on this short sequence shot in one day and retitle the film SNUFF.
		The film automatically starts and plays as one long chapter, in a continuous loop after the film is completed.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/n-s/snuff197671.htm (1004 words)

	TooSquare.Com - Snuff : Real Or Legend (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A snuff film is a movie (film or video) that depicts the rape, torture and eventual murder of the actor/actress (victim) while engaged in a sexual act.
		The victim being filmed is not aware of his/her impending death and usually they are young prostitutes, kidnap victims, or girls from foreign countries.
		The film depicted a gory and amateur-type sex and death sequence, which the pathologist stated was a theatrical staging.
	www.toosquare.com /content/view/190/28 (1213 words)

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