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Snuff: a documentary about killing on camera.

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Being somewhat of a horror film fan, I was in the mood for some nice splatter and fun gore. However, I found, to my pleasant surprise, this film doesn't have any of those things. Why that is so pleasant is because what it did deliver was a disturbing view on the human psyche. It goes all over the map in terms of range of films covered, from early seventies "real snuff" to war footage. If any one is interested in an intense psychological look into the darkness that is the human experience, this is never to be looked over. Watch it.

A "snuff film" is a film where an actor WILLINGLY dies during a scene in a film (as seen in the Nicolas Cage film 8MM). The definition has been around for decades and the producers try to re-define it by "interviewing" some unknown filmmakers, film "historians", and one jerk that is so annoying you wish he would become a subject of what they are talking about. No one you know and they have nothing interesting to say.

ZERO research went into making this. Although they show a few scenes from "the devil's experiment" from the GUINEA PIG series there is no mention of the huge controversy and investigation by the FBI (probably because it was found to be fake and that snuff films don't exist). If you're going to make a documentary at least present some information and not just lame talking heads. Even the Russian-mob snuff film ring mentioned has never been supported by any evidence and that's why they are not in jail.

This seems more like an attempt at publicity for these unknown filmmakers than actually being informative. Although one producer has ONE credential, his story about viewing a "real snuff film" is hard to believe and really annoying to watch him tell it.

Those that are familiar with this subject have seen this all before and this is a waste of your time while others will be misinformed on the subject.

Real snuff films do not exist and this dreck just wants to add fuel to the urban legend. 8MM is far more informative and easier to watch than this poor publicity stunt.

I want to say very little here about the film.

My interest is the director "Paul Von Stoetzel". He's going to be the focus point of this review.

For a long time I was searching for a good documentary about the subject.

I found "Paul Von Stoetzel" on My Space.

Visit his page and learn from it. What you will learn is we are here dealing with a Visionary. A filmmaker with passion and definitely a filmmaker who will not waste your time nor his time nor his space on My Space.

These clues should be your guideline to deciding whether his film is worth watching or not.

Ps. The scene from the Iraq war..