We’re starting an extensive series on Snuff Films and on this episode we’re starting at the very beginning, with Thomas Edison’s exploitation films of executions and bloodsports! We also get into Charles Manson and the Family’s influence on introducing the term “snuff films” into the lexicon as we know it today, as well as their influence on exploitation cinema through films like Snuff (1975) and Last House on Dead End Street (1979). Mondo documentaries and rumored footage of celebrity deaths is discussed, as well as Peeping Tom (1960) and voyeurism in cinema. We cover Faces of Death and touch on films such as Cannibal Holocaust, 8MM and the Guinea Pig Franchise. Emanuelle in America grosses Sal out, as it rightfully should. To close out this week we bring up Effects (1979) and George C. Scott in Hardcore (1979). Throughout the week we also give some recommendations on films to check out over the next week.
Our sources for this episode: Killing for Culture: From Edison to ISIS - A New History of Death on Film by David Kerekes & David Slater and VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties by Tony Newton & David Bond
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