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Now to start with, I would never recommend this film to anyone, with a clear conscience. This is the work of utter evil and sheer cruelty of the highest order. Even if you are familiar with the works of Extreme Cinema, this one rises to an even higher level than that. Upon watching this film, I got the impression that it was a work of hatred towards humanity and without a shred of apologetic or good intentions. This is an exercise in sheer depravity. It depicts acts of violence from characters without a shred of redeemable qualities. Mind you, the film never pretends to be anything that its not and it promises on what it delivers. Sheer torture, not only for the characters, but the viewer as well. We are thrust into a very very dirty atmosphere with a low budget that is evident in every scene, but the director takes advantage of this, making it even dirtier, if that were possible. Having said all of this, does this film serve a purpose? Yes, I think it does. Unlike August Underground, which was just based purely on shock value, this film attempts to explain the meaning of snuff films and the types of people who are into it. So, it separates itself from the usual Pseudo Snuff Film, by at least attempting to give us an insight into the psychology behind these sorts of films in the sub genre. However, this isn't much of a redeeming quality, and although it is of a higher standard in the Pseudo Snuff sub genre that in itself is a sub genre thats lacking in real movie quality talent, that is not saying much. Viewer, definitely beware!

My quick rating - 2,4/10. Ok, first an explanation. These are NOT horror movies. This is its own category, Shocksploitation. The whole point of these movies is to look so poor quality, and shocking you question it being real. If you think this is new, it is not. Guinea Pig started this 40 years ago with underground torture movies that got government attention when they thought it was real. And yes, they graduated to fake snuff. This movie mixes the grainy, fake torture but tries to incorporate a plot of a man being interviewed about the existence of "snuff" movies, all the while the viewer is bearing witness to it supposedly happening in what we assume the man is a part of. The interviewer preps for this by searching the web and finding some well known BS snuff that you may have seen before and the ever popular "beheading" video that was from a terrorist executing "someone." Blah Blah, so they showed something real, but one big rule of these movies, if you are trying to fool people into believing this nonsense, first off, don't tell them at the beginning "all the torture and violence in this film is real" Immediately you know it isn't. Second, what guinea pig did right was shoot in single camera long straight cuts. Made it far more difficult to tell it was fake. These movie has camera angles shifting and moving all the time. Who has time for editing film while torturing someone they kidnapped, am I right? LOL. The atypical camera angles hiding the most depraved scenes forcing you to figure them out or imagine it is also used. My point is, don't let crap such as this make you believe This is not horror, this is a filmed stunt to fool and shock you. I watch this because I am interested in the lengths people go to achieve this but in reality, it is just plain boring. This actually tried so it wasn't as bad as Guinea Pig was. That was a straight 1.5 hours of fake torture, no slim plot. And since American Guinea Pig has come and shifted into making plot driven gorefests now, and August Underground has been shocking in the USA for a while as well, this falls into just another attempt. It fails. Not a single part grossed me out, it has all been done before, and I have seen far WORSE. I give the little points it got on merit of some of the dialogue as it was an educated opinion about snuff at times. Do I think snuff films exist? YES, people are inherently evil and to think none of the sickos haven't filmed their murders before would be hard to believe. I am sure they have, but is their an underground market for it? Hard to say, if there is, I don't care to see it. I get nothing out of watching women get slapped around, and raped with various objects (which is always up to you to figure out since they make sure it is dark or camera is just off enough so you can't see, luckily). Long winded but lots to say on the subject. Long story short, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, AVOID UNLESS YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE IT.

Gory Argentinian film that doesn't really have any plot, the film switches between a girl's home, a room where three women are being held captive by a psychopath and psychobabble by an expert who tells us what are the reasons behind Snuff films and why the subject holds the publics interest. Snuff 102 also intersperses some dodgy internet "Snuff" clips, all in all the film is a sickening viewing but it left this viewer cold. I like this kind of material on occasion, but it was more the styling of the film i don't care for. Like the expert in the film says, those who watch such films don't really care for those that are being butchered, i have to agree.

An investigative reporter, researching the phenomenon known as 'snuff', gets some first-hand experience in the subject after she is abducted by a psycho, taken to a blood spattered basement, and filmed whilst tortured (along with a couple of other unfortunate victims).

If you are a fan of extreme underground horror, then you have probably heard at least some of the controversy and hoopla surrounding this film (about the realistic gore, which led people to believe that the on-screen carnage they were seeing was real, or how the director was beaten up by an irate member of the audience after one particularly nasty sequence). However, any extreme underground horror fan worth his (or her) salt knows that it's never wise to believe the hype: more often than not, the rumour-mill isn't exactly providing accurate information.

For starters, I've seen this film described as 'faux-snuff', which it most certainly isn't: with its multiple camera angles, distinct narrative, creative editing, and an effective thumping industrial soundtrack, it could never be mistaken for 'the real McCoy' (and I don't believe that was ever the director's intention). Also, the gore in this film isn't really that graphic: sure... a LOT of nasty things happen to the women in the basement, but Snuff 102 manages to suggest a lot more than it actually shows.

The quality of the footage is grainy and has been treated with filters to achieve a distressed look; much of the action occurs in shadowy conditions, making it hard to discern what is happening; and clever editing deceives the viewer into believing that they have seen much more than they actually have. So, the 'chiselled teeth' scene, although certainly nasty, isn't as stomach-churning as it might've been, and the 'stomping' of the pregnant woman (the killer crushes her head and her distended belly), which is admittedly nauseating in concept, doesn't really warrant attacking the film-maker.

Much more disturbing, in my mind, is the inclusion of genuine images of pain and suffering taken from the internet (the sort of thing to be found on dubious sites such as Ogrish or Rotten), and a couple of scenes of animals being killed and mistreated (I always find real gore difficult to stomach).

Director Mariano Peralta has certainly delivered a gutsy, taboo-busting film which is genuinely unsettling, but is it the last word in gruelling snuff-themed cinema, as some might claim? Definitely not. Snuff 102 has far too many moments that drag (a very dull beginning and lots of talking throughout), is a little repetitive, and features much too much in the way of artistic pretension for it to walk away with that accolade.

This movie isn't rubbish because it's extreme, hardcore, brutal, or any of that. This movie is rubbish because it failed an attempt at a plot, it failed attempts of shock with unoriginal filmography, just drop the quality of other shock films by around 95% and you have snuff 102.

Gore 4/10 Camera 1/10 Music 1/10 Acting 3/10 Overall 3/10, feeing generous.

Just go watch Atroz.

Once again... very good reviews, bad rating. Now which should you trust on this movie?? In my case I should have trusted the vote... like expected "Snuff 102" is another take on the Snuff-Genre with DV-Cameras and low production value, much reminding of course of August Underground. But in contrary to the other reviewers I found this one much less shocking. Mainly because it tries to be intelligent by incorporating psychological statements, dialog thats as endless as the sequences of screaming girls and some artsy shots of meaningless pictures... which by the way look rather cheap to me. I was about to end the movie after the bleached out opening sequence. The movie is roughly about the snuff genre and a woman investigating on it.. wasn't Tesis a similar plot, don't remember for sure. Anyway ... you got her talking to a psychologist, surfing the web and looking at strange sites all mixing with the sequence of 3 girls bound and gagged and tortured while stumbling into the chaos of course. Now there is some plot and they even tried a kind of twist in the end but basically of course its about seeing girls bashed and tortured and even cheaper ... they regularly mix in stupid pictures from Rotten.com which gives the movie a real cheap and stupid feel. The mixture just doesn't work although the gore FX looks pretty realistic... anyway, with such bad picture quality its not such a big deal. So if you mix movies like August Underground, Scrapbook and the style of Slaughtered Vomit dolls and add some try of being intelligent on it you can watch this since you already know what kind of production value is awaiting. After all I found this one extremely boring and by far not as sick as Slaughered Vomit Dolls which had a very similar noisy and artsy collage style or as realistic as August Underground which was boring anyway.

Snuff 102 is a new movie in the "overhyped and labeled as most brutal ever" category. Like all the movies in that category (Murder Set pieces, chaos,etc) its not "that brutal" as reviews and comments wants us to believe (there are lots of fake reviews in this kind of movies, specially on MSP). What is Snuff 102? Well, lets start from whats not. This ain't a new August Underground, its a completely different kind of movie. Snuff 102 Its a movie with a traditional plot, its not a "fake snuff". The story is similar to Thesis or 8 mm but featuring some gross and very well done gore FX and some internet footage of animal killings. Overall, its worth a look, its boring sometimes (its too long and very slow-paced IMHO), the plot twist at the end is very predictable but its well done and its a good movie.

As the title suggests, this is a Snuff version of classic I Spit On Your Grave. Three chicks get tortured, until one of them escapes, and kills the main villain. There's also a side plot to this film, that the chick that escaped did a investigation on the suspect, that did his mass-murders.

I'm going to be brutal honest here, when it comes to fictional Snuff-Movies, this one is probably the tamest i have seen, which was really a let down. Comparing this to Guinea Pig, Grotesque, Altroz and The Butcher, it's safe to say that Snuff 102 has no weight to the fictional snuff movies i have listed and seen.

The main problem i got with this film, is how boring it was. The whole movie was so slow, and repetitive, half of the scenes could of been cut out in order for this film to flow better. Until the last 20 minutes, everything else in this movie was painfully boring, and i could not wait for it to end. I have to mention, this movie does contain scenes of some real death gore scenes, one of which is where they slaughter a pig in Croatia, and they present is as snuff, which is understand why, is to compare the human body to a pig, for Snuff killers, the victims body is just like a Pig.

The movie is trying to prove a point, that Snuff-filming is just equal as Pornography, in the sence, that the human body is being exploitated and humiliated, and that there's no limits on the internet, that you can be perversed as you wish on the internet.

This movie could of been way better, if we had more likeable victims, that had any kind of backstory, the only one that has a flat barely exsisting backstory and development, is the chick that is investigating this guy. Sad to say but hour and twenty minutes of this was so boring, and you barely cared really. Yes the movie has some graphic scenes, if you never watched a fictional snuff flick, this probably could move you ill, however if you are somebody that is a veteran to extreme cinema, it's probably not going to bother you, and most of the effects look really cheap, and all of it is blacked out, probably because the budget was not there.

The only thing keeping this film at two stars, is the fact that it has a plot, because there's movies out there that nearly have zero plot, and are just a brain melter, like Gummo, Where The Dead Go To Die, and Begotten.

Made independently, it must be recognized that it was possible to make what is perhaps the most extreme and violent film that can be found in Argentine cinema. Snuff 102 manages to be a visual torture for the most sensitive with all its scenes that go without detours. He can be given quite a bit of credit for them, as the grotesque makeup and gore are very well done. The film has the aesthetic of a snuff film that makes it visually amateurish, but it fits with the atmosphere. Even the soundtrack and editing are quite strange, fitting with the uncomfortable and aggressive atmosphere of the film. There are not many dialogues and the critic's words are the most interesting, contributing a lot to the film and leaving a good reflection on how far human beings can go to reach a certain level of satisfaction. The critic's dialogues touch on interesting topics about morality as something that limits our natural instincts, social marginality making the lives of those who occupy a very low social position have little value and about the body as something that can be used to satisfy any kind of desire without limitation. The film manages to be a good reflection of the brutal horrors that are quite common both in Argentina and in other Latin American countries. With all that, Snuff 102 could perhaps have been one of the best horror films that Argentine cinema could offer, but what prevented that is the level of amateurism it has and some elements that needed to be applied to the narrative. The film focuses more on the brutal scenes and less on the story, because the idea of a snuff film is that, giving priority only to the images. The 3 victims are introduced without knowing much about them. The journalist presented herself as that only. The pregnant woman had quite a bit to offer in her backstory, but it is never explained how she ended up in the hands of the killer. They leave that up to the interpretation of the viewer. The third victim is totally unknown and she is nothing more than that. While the editing is amateurish, it gets cheaper near the end until it falls into something from a Z movie. There is a fairly obvious editing error and the ending is edited in a way that is rather interpretive and not clear at all making the film conclude in a tacky way. You could say that the lack of character development and the editing at the end ruined a part of this movie, affecting almost half of it. For the only film Mariano Peralta has directed in his lifetime, Snuff 102 is a brutal, well-executed indie film with quite a bit of potential. It managed to go far because of its strong scenes, but it could have been much more. My final rating for this movie is a 5/10.

Snuff 102 is a poor-quality attempt at a shocking, brutal thriller, but I cannot bring myself to hate it or even really dislike it. It is one of the few films with a relentless, oppressively grungy atmosphere that manages to be surprisingly disturbing. It is not as full of maiming and torture as you may think, sometimes dragging out long scenes of conversation and philosophy, yet it is much more disturbing than garbage like the sorry excuses of filmmaking August Underground.

Low on plot, yes, but high in its atmosphere and and aesthetic. The camera lens is grainy and dark, the gore effects are realistic, the film is soaked in a sickening brown-reddish lighting, but easily the best aspect of the film, which largely contributes to its disturbing nature, is the sound design. It's loud, overbearing, and clanging. We are blasted with loud industrial metal beats, synth and drums. There are gruesome sounds of wailing, screaming, and gory squishing, all while we are presented gruesome scenes of torture. Snuff 102 uses its low quality \cheap filmmaking to provide an outstandingly atmospheric film, one that leaves you feeling like you just need to take a long shower afterwards. Even without all the brutality, the grimy grittiness is almost sickening in this film, and it is the main reason I did not rate this film lower.

Additionally, Snuff 102 is more thought-provoking than I expected it would be. I would be hesitant to say this is not torture porn, but I also would not say it's a completely pointless film. The goal of the film is clear: to make a disturbing film with a message against human exploitation. The film makes its comparisons of pornography with snuff, as both are rely on abuse of the human body for personal enjoyment, all at the cost of the victim. It additionally argues that lack of restriction and privacy of pornography results in people willing to fall into total degeneracy; when you no one to stop you or discover you, why should you not fall into utter hedonism? It's a similar point made by Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (albeit a lot more effectively), but it uses snuff as an example to argue against pornography's perversion and evil.

Now, given my few praises of the film, why did I rate it so low? Truthfully, it's a bad film. It has earnest and respectable intentions, and it has some redeeming things about it, but it's technically atrocious. The camera quality is horrid, the cinematography is poor, the acting is stilted, the plot is practically non-existent, it's dragged out far too long in many scenes, and the editing is generally terrible. Though there are some interesting editing tricks using acceleration (visually reminiscent of Tetsuo: The Iron Man) the film's pasting of images on the screen, transitions and slow-motion outweigh the few decent cases of acceptable editing. Seriously, it sometimes looks like it was put in any old video editor, and random effects were just dragged onto the editing timeline. I have little to say here, as the technical quality is sloppy in quite literally every way, but it's honestly hard to blame the filmmakers, as it's clearly low-budget, and it isn't completely pointless, mindless exploitation (looking at you, August Underground).

Watch the film if you wish for a disturbing, gritty, and legitimately harrowing experience. Do not watch it if you are expecting a film of decent quality. Its brutal reputation is well-warranted, and it's far better and more disturbing than August Underground or Slaughtered Vomit Dolls. Still, it is hard to recommend unless you want some shocks.

Snuff 102 is, without any doubt, the most authentic and mind shattering "faux" snuff film I have ever seen. The scenes of violence, from the very beginning, displays a deeply disturbing level of carnage, meaninglessness and authenticity. A perfect balance between not showing us absolutely everything (partly because of the darkness/extremely grainy visuals made by the cheap digital cameras) but showing far more than the majority of us viewers would ever want to see on film. At the same time it shows the most fantastic images, in between the horrible torture, all in black and white. Little things, like rain and the washing of dishes, which almost becomes intimate, because of the great lighting and camera work. These are the "breathers" of the movie Snuff 102, and you will treasure these moments. Everything else is pure pain.

I have seen my share of the nastiest movies out there. It's like an obsession I've had for a few years now. I grew extremely bored with the mainstream American horror scene, and the spineless, embarrassing remakes of foreign movies, that already were as they were meant to be. Even original modern American horror film has become a parody of itself. This is why I was looking for exactly this kind of movie. It's everything Hollywood isn't. Actually it not like any other movie I've seen, and that is only positive. It questions our morality, ethics, consumerism, and at a point in the film, one of the characters makes an absolutely great comparison between pornography and snuff film.

This is not a movie you will stumble upon by accident. You have to really want to see it, because there is only one way to obtain it at this point. It premiered at the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival, where members of the audience attacked and injured the director, before the credits rolled. Mariano Peralta was accused of using real murder and torture footage. People are not as naive as they used to be when it comes to movies, so this only tells you how "real" Snuff 102 feels to watch. Choose to add this movie to your collection and you will get extreme violence and at the same time a harsh, philosophical comment on our depraved modern internet society. Ten thumbs up!

have seen a lot of extreme flicks I can surely file this one under extreme gore flicks. But be advised, although it isn't of course a real snuff there are a few shots included with animal cruelty. A pig being slaughtered alive and some stuff going on in the beginning with a monkey's head.

A girl is going deeper into the mysteries of Snuff movies and slowly she becomes involved into that world. Naturally it's done by actors but still this isn't for everybody. I wont recommend it to people who can't stand flicks full of grainy shots and weird editing and over-saturated colours. Of course the sound is sometimes really bad and that could annoy people too but that's only the part were the snuff takes place. Secondly slowly with the involvement of the girl in the research we do get into the real snuff. Some is gruesome and not for the faint-hearted otherwise there are shots to be seen from real events. This is extreme be warned.

It clocks in over 90 minutes and maybe that's a bit too long for such kind of flicks but we only have two camps, the pros and the contras, there's no in between. The flick itself was officially released but has been taken out of the market due it's contents. It resurrected on VHS after a while but even that version is a hard target to track down. Only MassacreVideo has an official release nowadays. If you like flicks like the August Underground's or the MAGgot releases or the Slaughtered Vomit Dolls trilogy then this is a must have but if you are new to the genre or just a Horrorwood lover then stay away from this atrocity or you can make your own vomit flick while watching because the real images are gruesome, you will see a person being killed by slashing his throat and it's not faked.

If A Serbian Film (2010) was sickening, this goes a bit further but it do has it flows which a Serbian Film never had, even the score is a bit the same. The girl doing research do talk a lot to a professor. Skip that, it's boring, do watch the real snuff and see the pregnant girl being tortured, even as that was acted still it's gruesome. Extreme content!

Gore 5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 5/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

OK, first of all, if you get offended by extreme films, then don't f****** watch a movie called Snuff 102 and give it a bad rating because you can't take the content! This is quite a rare movie, so most of you who watched it must have sought it out and that means you must have had some idea what the movie was about.

Second, morals has nothing to do with the quality of a movie or any product of creativity whatsoever! And that is not an opinion. That is a fact! If you think about it, you will hopefully realize why. Being a vegan, I find yhe animal killings repulsive, even though I can sort of understand their purpose, since the whole film is basically about slaughter. And I don't think the animals are killed exclusively for the film. But regardless of the conclusions I draw from moral speculations, I won't let that affect my overall opinion about the quality of the movie, since it has absolutely nothong to do with it.

I would say this movie, together with A Serbian film, is the best extreme horror since Cannibal holocaust.

The movie is about a reporter investigating snuff and interviewing a guy that seams to be some kind of expert on the subject with a background in sociology and analytical psychology. I don't know if I missed something, but I found it unclear why this guy was interviewed.

The imagery is brutal and very well made. Some of the FX looks very real. And one of the scenes actually is real. It is taken from the internet and were shot during the Iraq-war. Even though I find the moral of including this clip questionable, I think it is somewhat defensible, sice it's not Peralta's clip at all, and serves both the purpose of showing the harsh reality and what exists on the internet. But be that as it may, I still would have preferred not seeing that. Still doesn't affect the quality of the film in itself though.

The movie is painful to watch for all the right reasons. It displays several slow scenes of extreme torture and murder together with an awesome industrial soundtrack, which really helps setting the mood. It is not the most brutal film I have seen. The vomit gore trilogy is still way worse. A Serbian film and August Underground's mordum is also worse and I think the uncut version of Cannibal holocaust is as brutal as this one.

And the downsides (apart from some really questionable morals, which still don't have anything to do with the quality)? I could really only think of one: The story in all its simplicity, is a little hard to understand. I guess it is supposed to be in a nightmarish sort of way, but still, if you are going to have a story to go with the violence and the message at all, why not make the small effort to make the parts of it comprehensible? It would only make the movie better. I am thinking of the mentioned "expert" mainly. Why not just tell the viewer why he was interviewed in the first place. I must say though that I was a little drunk when I saw the movie, so I might have missed it. But I was only a little drunk, so I don't think so.

Overall , extreme horror is at its best, I think, when it says something about the times we live in. And this film really succeeds well with this. The man getting interviewed really has interesting things to say about our culture, no matter if you agree with what he is saying. I would say that his analysis is more insightful than what you can get out of most films that has a message. I found his comment about pornography to be especially interesting. With this in mind the brutal imagery works really well when it comes to underlining and hammering in the message.

Like almost all (horror) films, Snuff 102 requires a minimum of open-mindedness, and above all trying to understand what it is: like what is this work? (this is a clichéd remark, but I insist and I will explain).

In my opinion, snuff 102 is first and foremost an excellent survival movie. We follow characters involved in bizarre events, we see them suffer, look for solutions to escape, communicate, etc. There are some ultra-thrilling scenes and I love survival! Especially when survival appears realistic within the ecosystem of the film.

So: 1st point: a great survival.

Then, Snuff 102 is a very gripping snuff movie, with a careful, glossy atmosphere, AND it is a formally very original film, on the border between reality and fiction.

Mariano Peralta wrote and directed a work that mixes genres: we follow a journalist, the film is like a documentary of her work. There are videos of real violence, real-fake snuff passages created by the director, and flashbacks to the daily lives of the tortured characters. I really try not to spoil anything, so it's not easy to tell the story. The mix is perfect, it really feels like it's a real doc and a real snuff (both at the same time). The structure is therefore quite complex, even if the narration is very refined.

So: 2nd: an extraordinary found-footage.

Finally, there are the directing choices: Mariano Peralta did not want to make a classic torture-porn (a genre that I really like). Above all, he wanted to cover important subjects with his film, to make himself think and make the viewer think. This film is from 2007, and poses very interesting questions about our relationships with image, bodies, violence, private life, etc. Far from being a film that wants to shock or delight in violence (and there are plenty of them that are cool), we are almost faced with a social chronicle approach (which requires fans of splatters to move on, the goal is not to push the limits of gore). It also shows a very critical view of society (and many other things), while letting the viewer form their own opinion about the events (there is no over-commenting on what we are told ; just food for thought). In short, it is this accumulation of elements which makes it so striking, which blurs the boundaries between myth and reality. Snuff 102 is therefore astonishing, glib, sticky, intelligent and the young director has produced a committed film with mature writing. The two main characters are brilliantly written.

I would add that the actors are great (the pregnant woman was actually pregnant: everyone was very involved) and you never feel a lack of budget.

So, 3rd: rich content that will work with you long after, if you accept the journey

Needless to say, I love the ending, perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the film.

Here are my impressions of this remarkable first film. We have excellent entertainment and a great horror film (which offers its share of strong sensations and cold scenes - one of the true extremes movies), which also allows itself to be exciting. I've seen it 3 or 4 times, it's a sure/solide thing!

I wish it had more plot, because the plot made me interested to see the film in the first place but still a shockingly brutal movie.