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For the uninitiated: A snuff film is a porn film where the actress is killed on camera for the gratification of the viewer.
Such films have long been a staple of law enforcement propaganda. Gotta ban all pornography because of them! Gotta fight porn’s terrible spread because, you know, it’s one small tiny step from browsing MET-ART to becoming a producer of the latest and greatest snuff flick.
A snuff film even featured as the main plot point in the 1979 Hollywood film Hardcore. In that, Geroge C. Scott plays a Midwestern businessman who heads to San Fransisco to rescue his daughter from the clutches of a demonic snuff porn business. Here’s the trailer:
Apparently, the more recent film 8MM is “inspired by” (i.e. it’s a rip-off of) Hardcore, also having a plot that centers around a snuff film.
But as the esteemed sex doctor Marty Klein points out, snuff films probably don’t exist. He hasn’t seen one. And he doesn’t know anyone who has seen one. And he doesn’t know anyone who knows anyone who has seen one. And he’s a fucking well-connected guy!!!
So snuff films are likely just the product of legend and of fear and of Hollywood screenwriting and of dishonest politically-motivated fabrication.
Maybe the reason for this is that we human beings don’t actually like the idea of killing other people. Maybe we find it universally awful at the most basic visceral level. And maybe this disgust with killing is something that is shared by all humans, even by those godless gay-loving pot-smoking heathens from California. Maybe those people with “San Fransisco values” have some morals after all, and maybe they’re not subhuman like we good god-fearing Haliburton stockholders have been saying all these years.
Maybe the only way to get a person to enjoy killing is through political warmongering and the associated collectivist brainwashing. Maybe snuff films don’t exist, but an atmosphere encouraging sadistic violence in the name of the political leadership of the day does.
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Damn well said, Ray!
Matador, by Almodovar, is another movie that involves snuff films in its plot.
I think snuff films exist, everytime some killer films his deeds for his enjoyment, everytime a security camera records a murder, etc. Some of the stuff we see in the news, or on websites like rotten, is pretty much snuff. So I’d say snuff films exist, but certainly not as an industry. People do enjoy watching horrible deaths, and do get some voyeuristic thrill out of it, but certainly noone is making these films for the purpose of selling them to an eager audience.
I wish snuff didnt exist.
I agree with Judy.
I already know the answer to why people enjoy that kind of crap. but i still keep asking my self why?. maybe that’s cos i don’t want to understand.
It’s kinda absurd that violence in entertaiment is totally acceptable but Sex is a big no no. sex doesn’t hurt anyone but violence feeds violence.
I vote more sex and less violence.
I wan’t mega budget porn games!!
It is just another of the litany of absurdities and lies typically trotted out to justify political control of what people do by both so called ‘left’ and so called ‘right’.
Sorry, Judy no, Matador, which you obviously haven’t seen, doesn’t involve snuff films. Its plot does involve sex and mutual suicide at the point of orgasm. Great movie, BTW, one of Almodovar’s best. Funny and sexy. Highly recommended to The Money Shot Blog readers.
As for real live snuff — sure, TV news/cell phone footage of Iranian executions qualifies. So, basically the most sexually repressive regime out there is the one producing snuff. As expected.
I guess you are dead too…
Mute Witness has the making of a snuff movie as the core of the plot
Bon Vivant, I admit I haven’t seen the whole of Matador : I fell asleep after a while.
However, in the first few minutes of the movie, you do see a guy jerking off to snuff films.
Ok, maybe they are not really a major part of the plot, but still, it’s almost the first image : girls being slaughtered on a screen, and a guy masturbating while watching them.
Of course it was not real snuff that was used, there is some special effect or something.
Snuff films DO in fact exist, but they are the export of third world countries. One that I have had the displeasure of glimpsing came from Brazil. They use young street urchins as fodder. In the video, some dirtbag guy was banging a young girl. A second male slit her throat whillie the first came on her. I was not special effects…it was real..all on continuous shot. Snuff films are made & do exist, but not domestically.
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