Man...haven't watched this one in a LLLLOOOONNNNGGGG time. Just rented it the other day for the hell of it - and my opinion of it now isn't much different than it was about 15 years ago when I first saw this mess.

Snuff is mostly made up of an Argentinian film called THE SLAUGHTER that got shelved (for good reason...). It's about a group of girls who kill people because a Charles Manson-ish cult-leader says so. At the end of this film is some fake tacked-on snuff footage that's "supposed" to look like the real thing - but it doesn't.

I have to agree with those that say that SNUFF is a historically relevant film if - if nothing else. One of the greatest marketing campaigns ever - taking a film no one cared about, throwing on some footage that probably cost under $100 to film, and re-releasing it as authentic snuff footage - and probably making a "killing" off of it. Granted, the end "snuff" footage is pretty gory and mean-spirited, but is OBVIOUSLY faked. How he pulled the girls "heart" out of her stomach is a feat of modern science. The SLAUGHTER film footage is a very dull and uninspired exploit-style film and doesn't hold up on its own merit. A few tits and some insanely cheesy over-dubbed dialog...and a great fake "Born To Be Wild" soundtrack...Worth a look to sleaze fans just to say you did...6/10 only for the semi-decent "snuff" footage at the end, and for the films overall status as a "classic" sleaze-fest...

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.

Oh boy … They warned me this movie would be beyond terrible, but obviously I refused to listen again. Of course, they were right… "Snuff" is a dreadfully amateurish and annoyingly boring film with the world's most incoherent screenplay, retarded characters, incomprehensibly merging story lines and really tacky make-up effects. Don't expect an actual movie dealing with the topic of snuff, as you will be sorely disappointed. The first 75 minutes haven't got anything to do with snuff – the term isn't even vaguely mentioned or hinted at – and then suddenly out of the blue there's an unconnected film-within-film climax that is outrageously depraved and sickening. This movie is about murderous Charles Manson hippie cults and B-movie actresses acting all lewd in the Buenos Aires film industry. It's a road movie with a continuously repeated song that sounds too much like "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf and there even are extended political discussions, but there's nothing remotely resembling to snuff! Nearly three quarters of the film is irrelevant padding footage, like the tremendously overlong sequences as the carnival. The sleaze factor lies quite high, but the film is never arousing or sexy. The worst of the worst … with a unique ending.