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The first known use of the term snuff movie is in a 1971 book by , The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. Dans les années 1970, la rumeur voulait que ces films soient tournés en Amérique du Sud mais après la et le développement de la , les cinéastes ont commencé à déplacer le snuff movie dans les pays d' , , , … ,. Les rumeurs sur l'existence des snuff movies existent depuis les , mais ces films restent toutefois considérés comme une ,. Dès , de raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui assassine de jeunes femmes tout en les filmant avec une caméra portable.
- Cette scène avait pour but de faire croire au spectateur que le pseudo-scénariste du film Snuff violait une des actrices du film The Slaughter avant de la tuer de manière très barbare.
The film started out as a low-budget gore film titled Slaughter which was written and directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team of. The film's financier, Jack Bravman, took an out-of-court settlement from to allow it to use the title Slaughter for starring. The Findlays' film enjoyed a very limited theatrical release. Independent low-budget distributor and sometime producer took the film and shelved it for four years—but was inspired to release it with a new ending, unbeknownst to the original filmmakers, after reading a newspaper article in 1975 on the rumor of snuff films produced in South America and decided to cash in on the urban legend. The new footage purportedly showed an actual murder, and was spliced onto the end of Slaughter with an abrupt cut suggesting that the footage was unplanned and the murder authentic. Although the film was exposed as a in in 1976, it became popular in , , and. Twenty female protesters protested the film's return engagement in Rochester, New York at the Holiday Ciné. This section needs expansion. You can help by. While it legend lives on, it's realities end any speculation or scandal for that matter. No one really dies onscreen during the last few minutes of this movie. Your sense of gullibility, on the other hand... Cook, Lost Illusions: American Cinema in The Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, page 233 University of California Press, Ltd. The dismemberment of her body was so real that it made me physically sick'. Cook, Lost Illusions: American Cinema in The Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, page 233 University of California Press, Ltd. The New York Times. Retrieved 6 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.