The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
Stine, Scott Aaron
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/snuff_film_the_making_of_an_urban_legend/
Date Written: 1999-05-01
Publisher: Skeptical Inquirer
Year Published: 1999
Pages: 7pp Resource Type: Article
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
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