3. Snuff (1976)
Now I know that Snuff is a fairly popular film but the pure fact of the matter is - it sucks. And with a title as grand and brash as Snuff, you better deliver the goods. We want cinematic mayhem! And what do we get? A lame, tame cinematic turd. The main bulk of the film, with the hippie cult members running amok with some prick called Satan as their leader, is a tasteless take on Charlie Manson and his disciples. They even stab a heavily pregnant woman a la Sharon Tate. And this is where the first part ends. A voice yells cut and we see a studio set. The director announces that all that gore turned him on and begins to fondle a girl in front of everyone. This escalates to torturing and slashing the girl on camera, finally ending with disembowelment and death. Tame because the effects are rubbish, the concept is rubbish, the dialogue is rubbish, the acting is rubbish - everything stinks to the highest heavens. Nobody could be convinced that this is a snuff movie. Yet for years this film, because of its title, has been causing moral panic across Britain like wildfire (have any of them ever sat down to see how tame it is?). If you want to watch a decent simulation of a snuff movie, then watch the Japanese Guinea Pig movies. Heck, even Joe D'Amato did a more convincing job in Emanuelle in America