Mr_Ectoplasma "Snuff" essentially follows a bizarre cult of biker women who follow a male leader (fittingly named "Satan") around the South American countryside, killing whoever they feel like killing, and torturing the disobedient members. One of their targets includes a Hollywood actress in the area filming a movie.One of many films whose notoriety preceded its actual merit, "Snuff" was ingeniously marketed in the 1970s, which led to its legendary status. The issue? It's just plain bad. The central narrative concerning the cult and the biker girls is clearly cribbed from the real-life Manson family killings (namely the horrendous murder of Sharon Tate), and the film feels like just as much of a bad trip. The dubbing in the film is horrendous, but the performances here really don't help matters. A great deal of the film is laughable due to gaudy performances and dated special effects. The worst part of it all is that the film's most notable scene was not originally part of the film or the narrative at all— the evisceration of a woman on a bed while a film crew stands around recording— and its displacement in the film is felt. That said, it's inarguably the most technically impressive portion of the entire film, and the best acted by a mile. The only problem here is that it's not properly linked together with the narrative and thus comes across as what it is: an afterthought. A clever afterthought, sure, and probably the only reason this film was ever released to the world; but it quite obviously doesn't belong, and by the end of the whole thing, you're kind of just left scratching your head.Overall, "Snuff" is one of the weaker exploitation films of its time, mainly due to disjointedness— it aimlessly plods along its biker cult narrative before derailing into a gruesome murder scene that has absolutely nothing to do with what has narratively preceded it. I can deal with the bad dialogue, and the bad dubbing, and the opulent '60s hippie aesthetics, but the lack of coherence makes it tough to even watch this as mindless entertainment. There are a few well done scenes and some gruesome gore (albeit clearly faked), but aside from that, there's not a lot going on here. 3/10.

christophermurray52 Well, I will never get that time back, ever.. I was laid off three months ago, so I spend a few hours per day online looking for work. At night, yup, watch movies and I am usually up pretty late.. I got this movie "Snuff" in the mail from Netflix this afternoon and just finished watching it..PATHETIC!! I mean, I am talking absolutely NO reason to watch this movie, I feel ashamed that I did and I should repent or something.The dubbing in this movie is HILARIOUS! It is something you would expect from a 1975 Bruce Lee flick or something, but at least in those movies you know in advance. Snuff? It is COMICAL! You will actually laugh instead of be in horror..Acting? Well, the dubbing is SO bad it is difficult to gauge. from what I could tell, it is freaking HORRID..Gore? Well, for you gore freaks out there, which I am one, do NOT waste your time. There is VERY minimal gore. The gore there is, HAAAAA!! There are people show and NO blood.. People stabbed and the blood disappears.. The last scene, where the apparent "real snuff" happens.. Bwaahahaa!! I am telling you there were better special effects in the 50's than in this movie.I would give a negative if at all possible.. Do waste your time, if you do, you may feel like you wish you had been snuffed out before it ended..

BA_Harrison 1976 saw the theatrical release of notorious 'nasty' Snuff, a film that was proudly promoted by its enterprising distributor Allan Shackleton as depicting genuine footage of a woman being brutally butchered for the sake of entertainment. Although common sense dictated that the claim was pure hokum, cinema-goers still came flocking out of morbid curiosity.What audiences saw was a forgettable 1971 exploitation flick originally titled The Slaughter, rounded off with a new, gory, movie-within-a-movie ending in which the cameras continue to roll as one of the actresses is murdered. Although exposed as a hoax soon after its release, rumours about the authenticity of the film's final scene persisted, guaranteeing the film the notoriety its makers were banking on; the banning of the video in the UK during the 80s 'video nasty' campaign later served to heighten its already legendary status.Given its unusual heritage and reputation, this pioneer of the 'faux snuff'/found footage genre is interesting viewing for all serious horror fans, but those who decide to watch the film in its entirety, rather than skipping straight to the 'good stuff' at the end, be warned: the going is hard at times... The Slaughter didn't sit on the shelf gathering dust for five years for no good reason!Viewers opting for the full Snuff experience are faced with 70 or so minutes of cheap, Charlie Manson-inspired nonsense about an evil cult leader, appropriately named Satan, and his all-female hippy biker acolytes, who plot to murder the unborn child of an aspiring actress as part of a ritual (at least that's what I think it is about—it's all very disjointed).This trashy, tasteless (at times being a little too similar to the Tate/LaBianca murders for comfort), and sometimes unintentionally funny garbage comes complete with really bad dubbing, terrible dialogue (Pig! Filthiest of all animals! I will cut your heart from your body and feed it to the dogs!), the dreadful use of stock footage in a futile effort to convince viewers that certain scenes are taking place at a carnival, a couple of poorly executed stabbings and shootings, and plenty of boobs, before finally arriving at the infamous murder, in all of its finger snipping, hand slicing, intestine yanking glory.I rate this film 3 out of 10 for everything leading up to end, and 6 out of 10 for the mean-spirited snuff stuff—an average of 4.5, which I will round up to 5 for IMDb.

klaatu2 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