Snuff-Movie (film)

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Snuff-Movie
Directed by	Bernard Rose
Produced by	Donald Kushner Peter Locke
Written by	Bernard Rose
Starring	Jeroen Krabbé Hugo Myatt Teri Harrison Alastair Mackenzie Lyndsey Marshal
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Running time	92 min.
Country	UK
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Snuff-Movie is a 2005 gothic horror film by British director Bernard Rose. It stars Jeroen Krabbe as a horror film maker named Boris Arkadin who makes a come-back after years of being a recluse - following his pregnant wife being brutally murdered by a Manson like gang of hippy psychopaths back in the 1960's. To this end he invites some actors to a large mansion in the English countryside to 'audition' for his new film. Unknown to them they are being filmed by hidden cameras linked to a 'snuff' website...

1 Analysis
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[edit] Analysis

Snuff-Movie features two film-within-films, the first being a Hammer Horror like production by Boris Arkadin, the second being amateur home-movie type footage of the killings of the hippy psychopaths, filmed by one of their number. The apparent butchery and murder of horror film director Arkadin's pregnant wife appears to be an allusion to the butchery and murder of horror film director Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate by the Manson gang^[1]. Amongst the cinematic in-jokes on display in Snuff-Movie is the very name of the manic film director: 'Boris' being a reference to Boris Karloff and 'Arkadin' being a reference to Orson Welles's Mr Arkadin.^[2]As the film progresses questions of voyeurism, sex, violence, exploitation, what is real and what is 'just a movie' are explored: one scene shows a naked actress being 'crucified' in front of a crowd of film extras, others show an actress being tarred and feathered and in another an actress has the word 'whore' written on her forehead.

[edit] Reviews

According to Bloodydisgusting.com "Snuff-Movie plays like David Lynch filming a Hammer Horror about the Manson murders."^[3]
According to Total Film the movie has "has more twists than a truckload of corkscrews"^[4]