Snuff (1974)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 82 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Michael Findlay Productions (uncredited)
Producer: Michael Findlay, Jack Bravman (both uncredited)

SCRIPT
Script: Michael Findlay (uncredited)

DIRECTION
Directors: Michael Findlay, Roberta Findlay (uncredited)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Robert Findlay, Roberto Herz Kowicz (both uncredited)

MUSIC
Music: Rick Howard

CAST (all uncredited)
Margarita Amuchástegui
Ana Carro
Liliana Fernández Blanco
Roberta Findlay
Alfredo Iglesias
Enrique Larratelli
Mirtha Massa
Aldo Mayo
Clao Villanueva
Michael Findlay

A film crew working in South America is targetted by a Satanic cult. Under the malignant leadership of their guru, Satan, the cult members begin planning a slaughter of the film-makers... (Full Synopsis)

Dreadful in almost every respect, Snuff is far less important as a film than it is as marketing phenomenon. No-one actually died during the making of this junk, but that hasn't stopped hundreds of thousands of people from believing that they did - that's far more interesting (and much more disturbing) than anything in the film itself.

UK
Video Distributor: Astra Video (this is now widely believed to have been a bootleg release and it's even doubtful whether or not Astra actually released it. Certainly copies of the film made it into some British video shops, but who was actually behind it isn't clear.)

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Monarch Releasing Corporation
Video Distributors: Vidimax Home Entertainment
DVD Distributors: Blue Underground Inc

UK
Rating: banned

Slaughter - shooting title
American Cannibale - German title
Big Snuff - alternative German title

SEE ALSO
Olga's Dungeon of Torture Volume I (NO DATE)
Olga's Dungeon of Torture Volume II (NO DATE)

MAGAZINES

Empire no.4 (June 1993) p.34 (UK)
illustrated letter

Film Comment vol.12 no.3 (May / June 1976) pp.35, 63 (USA)
article

Film-Echo / Filmwoche no.29 (26 May 1979) p.9 (Germany)
article

Journal of Film and Video v45 n2/3 (Summer / Autumn 1993) pp.40-59
illustrated article (Soft Core / Hard Gore: Snuff As a Crisis in Meaning by Eithne Johnson and Eric Schaefer)

Screen International no.28 (20 March 1976) p.17 (UK)
article

Take One v6 n10 (September 1978) pp.28-32
Illustrated interview with Roberta Findley (Woman In Porn by Gerald Peary)

Variety 25 February 1076 p.22
review by Jac

BOOKS

Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd Edition) p.297
credits, review

Killing For Culture pp.7-28, 38, 61, 220, 302-305, 313, 314
illustrated articles

OTHER SOURCES

screen
review and synopsis source

cults, film makers, satanists, serial killers, snuff films

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009