The Great American Snuff Film

I hired this film out because it sounded interesting. Being a fan of serial killer films I thought this film would be at least interesting or watchable. Boy was I wrong. Completely amateur made film with horrible acting and rubbish "gore" effects. I probably could've made a better movie in my High School Film & TV class. Also, at the end of the film they show a sequence which is apparently a real snuff film made by the serial killer the film is based on. I highly doubt it is a genuine snuff film because there's no way the censors would let it get released. They'd want it cut. If they throw a fit over the animal killings in Cannibal Holocaust they would've outright banned this film for having a genuine snuff film in it. Avoid this movie like the plague!!! I've rated it one star only because there's no option for 0/10...

I didn't have high expectations going into this one, but I figured it could at least be mildly entertaining, gruesome and so forth. Instead what we get is a very poorly acted, dull waste of time.

The Great American Snuff Film is about a pair of serial killers who capture a couple of girls for the purpose of filming them torturing and brutalizing them.

This movie is mainly narrated by one of the killers who tries to come off as eloquent, but instead is dull. The main issue with this movie is that it is incredibly boring. A low budget affair can still be entertaining with the right degree of violence,gore, and camp. This has none of that. A boring, unremarkable affair.

As a true connoisseur of horror, exploitation, gore and such, I greatly looked forward to seeing "The Great American Snuff Film." I mean the reviews contained phrases like, "Stay away," "This is torture," "This is one brutally hard film," and "Can easily crush the spirits of unprepared viewers." Sounds good to me! So I buy the DVD, pop it in and wait for the delicious disturbing pall to wash over me. Didn't happen. All those people so shocked, disturbed and disgusted by this movie must only watch family films and the freakin' Teletubbies. Maybe, just maybe, if they had actual actors in the roles it could have given me pause but really - and I don't want to sound catty - the kids in the elementary school plays I participated in gave better performances. I even laughed at a few things in this film that were supposed to make me recoil in disgust. Maybe that makes me one sick fella - but I don't think so. I've seen the best and worst of the exploitation and torture genres and this one falls not as the worst but as pretty darn bad, sitting close to the bottom for sure. As a comedy... not too bad at all. I mean when I think of all the people naive enough to believe that this movie contained actual snuff footage, I laugh my ass off.

I Couldn't even make it five minutes in. Pure, unadulterated crap, I have seen better acting in porno and the production values are pretty much non-existent. It's akin to the kind of thing that you would see on public access late at night, and even then public access programming has more substance to offer than this steaming pile of cinematic feces. It's not scary, it's just downright laughable. If you want really to know about William Allen Grone and his crimes then just research him, really you'll be much better off, don't waste your time with this crap. I know that this is a film made with a budget of zero next to nothing, but that is no excuse. "August Underground" was a no budget film as well and it was terrifying, tense and uncomfortable say what you will about "Mordum" but the original was scary as hell and that is because it had a sense of authenticity and you feel like you're watching an authentic snuff film. "The Sadist" was made with the same amount of money maybe even less and that was absolutely terrifying as well. But I swear this movie was like the ones that I used to make when I was a kid with my friends and family for my own personal amusement and I can guarantee you that it was leaps and bounds better than "The Great American Snuff Film" So do yourself a favor, if you're looking for a good shocking film watch something like "Cannibal Holocaust" again made with a shoestring budget and still absolutely chilling, one of the most terrifying films of all time. Just don't even bother with this crap.

Snuff films were an urban legend that became real: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng made them, as did Maury Travis. This film is not based on them, but it bears an uncanny resemblance to Bittaker and Norris; the dominant one looks a bit like Bittaker, and the slow one is even called Roy.

A documentary about real serial killers serves a purpose, but a film that is simply gratuitous sadism, rape and murder with a bit of necrophilia thrown in, well, it reminds us there are plenty of sick minds out there besides these unspeakables.

This film is trash. One point for the soundtrack.