Any glutton who loves awful movies has sat through dozens of inherently unwatchable films in the hopes of finding the rare beast that is both completely un-viewable and completely awesome at the same time. While Snuff leans more ardently toward the former, the current DVD presentation of this film helps this deservedly obscure classic drift a bit toward the latter.Let's clarify that this film wasn't intended to be passed off as an actual "snuff" film. If such a genre truly existed, which we won't debate here since we're clearly talking about a film that is NOT a "snuff" movie, chances are it would look a bit more like the footage hinted at in Mute Witness or 8mm than a carefully edited multi-camera affair with dubbed audio and generous arrays of stock Carnavale footage. If anyone ever truly believed that filmmakers murdered someone on camera and surrounded that footage with a pseudo-story about biker chicks who kill random people in surprisingly un-bloody ways, somehow found a way to bypass all of those dicey regulations concerning murder and its illegalites, and found a distributor to get a theatrical release for said footage... Seriously, no one did. I promise you.Yes, this movie is tedious, far too long, and so ineptly made that I can not find a single reason to recommend it. To normal people, that is. However, if you actually know what this film is, and still have any interest in seeing it, then you kind of need to, because it is as wretched an example of film-making as you could ever hope to encounter. Scene after scene, it is a shining an example of crappy C-grade schlock. But, you know, some of us really love crappy C-grade schlock.We don't want good dubbing, quality special effects, or actors who had heard of the phenomenon of "acting" before the cameras were turned on them. We aren't concerned with continuity, character development, or coherent story structure. We simply want to spend 80 minutes of our life watching something that vaguely resembles a film, yet ends up being an hour and twenty minute exercise in incredulity that forces us to question what's wrong with us for enjoying something that is clearly so un-enjoyable.This film is a joke. And one would suspect that the film-makers knew this. Now, the reason that Snuff is awesome is that not only did a piece of unwatchable trash like this gain some level of infamy, but 30 years later, there is a reasonably intelligent person sitting at their computer typing this missive at 3:33 in the morning, and another one reading said missive because they have yet to view this film.Ignore what you've heard about the grand guignol finale of this film, because it truly is a disturbing bit of nastiness. The fact that it follows such a laughably bad precursor is probably the point of this entire affair. And kudos to Blue Underground for presenting this film as they did, in a package without cover art, synopsis, or special features, which, contrary to the numerous criticisms of this I've read, captures this film perfectly. If you would really want a Criterion Collection pressing of Snuff, then you are clearly missing the point.Fans of terrible movies won't find one much more primitive than this (although I'd also tip my hat to The Last Slumber Party). If that sounds appealing to you, then you will thoroughly enjoy Snuff. If not, I really have to question what you thought you were in store for when you popped in a non-existent-budget South American film from the '70s called "Snuff".Do I recommend this? No, absolutely not. But do I own it and love the fact I own it? I kind of have to...

Well, here it is...the biggest hoax to be perpetrated on the (admittedly slow-draw) 42nd-Street crowd. When it was a mere out-of-print obscurity on VHS, there was a bit of intrigue into the 'authenticity' of "Snuff," but such claims are absolutely ludicrous (the transition to the alleged murder on film is too inept--and shot from too many different angles--to have any realistic basis). What we have here is a dull (and clearly foreign) spin off of the Manson massacre, ineptly edited, and dubbed by morons (a lone redeeming quality that eventually loses its ability to entertain); after being subjected to an hour or so of exposition and relationship ties among a famous starlet and her rich boyfriend, the film devolves into the ridiculous, out-of-nowhere murder sequence. Compared to other provocative, 18+ shockers of the time ("Cannibal Holocaust" comes to mind), "Snuff" is incredibly tepid in the realms of cheap, sleazy titillation and gruesome mutilation--the result is a film that might have been morally objectionable or sickening had the people behind the camera not been so damn daft.

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

A film director with his actress girlfriend flies to Argentina so they can film a porno movie over there. The filmmaker's girlfriend Terri begins to fall for a wealthy millionaire who impregnates her making the movie canned, a punk lady who lives in the mansion with her gang friends led by their murderous leader known as Satan whom wants her unborn child for a sacrifice in Satan's battle against the rich.Grotesque and infamous horror crime thriller that has been known as one of the most controversial movies of the 70's! it's not a bad movie but very flawed in terms of plotting and some parts of the movie. When this movie came out in 1976 in some theaters, it has been pulled out as one of the sickest hoaxes ever as people thought the film were actually murdered but they were not really as it was all acting, the company behind this movie did some fake protesting outside the theaters this was shown especially some investigations on the film as it turned out it was a fraud.The idea of the movie is to make people sick and i think that's what the director intended especially on making people think that this is real stuff going on. There are some vicious rape and faked gory murder scenes including a cringe inducing scene involving fingers getting cut off with sheers, a funk-a-delic 70's soundtrack and some bland performances in this downright dirty but somewhat kind of over-hyped flick that is truly not for the weak minded.Also recommended: "Men Behind The Sun", "Caligula", "Re-Animator", "Cannibal Ferox", "8MM", "Se7en", "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "Saw 1 & 2", "Hostel", "Wolf Creek", "High Tension", "Blood Feast 1 & 2", "Blood Diner", "Natural Born Killers", "Fight Club", "Driller Killer", "Bloodsucking Freaks", "Pink Flamingos", "Blue Velvet", "Silence of the Lambs", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series and 2003 remake", "Last House on The Left", "I Spit on Your Grave", "Maniac ( 1980)", "The Gore Gore Girls", "Wizard of Gore", "Basket Case", "I Drink Your Blood", "Pieces", "The Untold Story", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Ichi The Killer", "Day of the Dead", "Jungle Holocaust" ( a.k.a. Last Cannibal World), "Blood Diner", "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects", "Black Christmas", "Beyond The Darkness: Buio Omega", "Unhinged", "The Exterminator", "The Toxic Avenger", "Don't Go Near The Park", "Scarface", "Cannibal Holocaust".