- published: 20 Nov 2014
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A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation. The existence of for-profit snuff films is generally considered an urban legend. Some filmed records of executions and murders exist but have not been made or released for commercial purposes.
The very first recorded use of the term "snuff film" is in a 1971 book by Ed Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. He alleges that The Manson Family was involved in making such a film in California to record their murders.
The metaphorical use of the term "snuff" to denote killing appears to be derived from a verb for the cutting short of a candle wick. The word has been used as such in English slang for hundreds of years. J.C. Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang Dictionary in 1874 as a "term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident." The word is descended (via the Middle English "snuffen" or "snuppen") from the Old English "snithan", meaning to slaughter and dismember, from "snide", meaning to kill by cutting or stabbing, from "snid", to cut.
Snuff Film is a film like no other; this is a simulated adventure into the perverted, sick and twisted mind of a true psychopath who has decided to record his wild journeys into depravity on his only friend, his video camera. Through the eyes of the camera we get to see a glimpse of how far this tormented individual will go to get himself off, but can even this twisted sicko go too far?
Keywords: film, snuff
Killer: It's time to have some fun.