Snuff-Movie (film)

Snuff-Movie (film)

Infobox Film
name = Snuff-Movie


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director = Bernard Rose
producer = Donald Kushner
Peter Locke
writer = Bernard Rose
narrator =
starring = Jeroen Krabbé
Hugo Myatt
Teri Harrison
Alastair Mackenzie
Lyndsey Marshal
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cinematography =
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distributor = Lionsgate flagicon|UK
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runtime = 92 min.
country = UK
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website = http://www.snuffmovie.co.uk/
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imdb_id = 0403267

"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, whose pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. Because of this he has become a recluse, until, several years later, he makes a come-back and invites some actors to a large mansion in the English countryside to 'audition' for his new film. But unknown to them they are being filmed by hidden cameras linked to a 'snuff' website...

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 similar killing of horror film director Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate by the Manson gang [ [http://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews/snuff-movie Total Film review] ] .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. [ [http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/content/view/197/1/ Neil Young's Film Lounge review] ] 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' tattooed on her forehead against her will.

Reviews

*According to Bloodydisgusting.com "Snuff-Movie" plays like David Lynch filming a Hammer Horror about the Manson murders." [ [http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/review/1347 Bloody Disgusting.Com review] ]
*According to Total Film the movie has "has more twists than a truckload of corkscrews" [ [http://www.totalfilm.com/cinema_reviews/snuff-movie Total Film review] ]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0403267|title=Snuff-Movie


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