Snuff-Movie (2005)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Bernard Rose

Writer:

Bernard Rose (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Plot Keywords:

Bondage | Webcam | Stabbed In The Belly | Beautiful Woman | Panties

Cast

Jeroen Krabbé	...	Boris Arkadin
Lisa Enos	...	Wendy Jones
Hugo Myatt	...	Leon Bank
Joe Reegan	...	Jack
Teri Harrison	...	Pamela
Sharif Rosales-Webb	...	Matt Drazin
Alastair Mackenzie	...	Andy
Lyndsey Marshal	...	X
Catalina Harabagiu	...	Youth
Viorica Voda	...	Teeth
Tudor Necula	...	Marco Arkadin
Andrew Tiernan	...	Bruce
Vlad Ivanov	...	Policeman
Luana Stoica	...	Nurse
Roxana Andronescu	...	Maid

Also Known As:

Man with a Movie Camera (UK) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, bloody violence and gore, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Ireland:18 | Australia:R (2007) | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Romania

Company:

Capitol Films

Trivia:

The walls of the mansion where much of the film takes place are decorated with posters of Boris Arkadian's fictitious films 'Premature Burial' (the clip seen at the beginning of the film), 'Pit of Death,' 'Bedlam' and 'The Embalmer.' The credits shown on the posters include not only many members of the crew, but also John Malkovich and Steven Berkoff, both of who were considered for the role of Boris Arkadin.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist? (#2.4)" (2006)

Let's put this in the "close but no cigar"-section...

The storyline, settings and production values of this film are all strangely similar to the notoriously sick horror classic "Last House on Dead End Street". Could it possibly be that pure grim grindhouse exploitation is back from the dead?!? Well, not really, but the least you can say about "Snuff-Movie" is that it's a reasonably good attempt to revive the misogynous shock-cinema from the 70's. Even more surprising is that the film is a one-man project of Bernard Rose, a director whose older films "Candyman" and "Paperhouse" are still regarded as stylish and prominent horror classics. The underrated Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé stars as the embittered filmmaker Boris Arkadim who lost his beautiful wife and a share of close friends because they were killed by a bunch of violent maniacs who videotaped their crimes. Fourteen years later, Boris decides to make a new movie that tells the story of that night and thus four actors are lured to his isolated mansion full of cameras. It takes quite a while before anyone notices, but Boris plans to slaughter his guests on camera for real. Bernard Rose's script tries to be a little TOO intelligent (especially near the end) and the tension-level lowers with every plot twist. The gore is incontestably NASTY and there's plenty of authentic sleaze (there's a blond Playboy model in the cast, people!), so fans of underground-trash horror will love those moments! Despite the promising title, however, "Snuff-Movie" isn't half as disturbing, offensive or controversial as it wants to be and the film definitely needed a better climax. The acting performances are more than adequate and the cinematography with a Sony hand-camera is fairly well-handled. Worth a look if you're into semi-extreme cinema.