The Great American Snuff Film

OK, this is NOT a film with superb acting, clever direction or high quality sound or production values...but hey, it doesn't claim to be. It clearly states at the beginning that this is a dramatisation of entries from William Allen Grone's journals, with the two-and-a-half minutes of Super 8 film recovered by police, thrown-in at the end.

The fact that the 84 minutes preceding the "real footage" is b-grade quality, adds to the realism. Its gritty, dirty, rough and raw - and because of this you are more easily affected by the events that transpire. I agree that the added Super 8 footage at the end is it's biggest selling point, but if you love films that challenge the concept of what film should be, than you will appreciate this film.

Overall, not the most shocking of films, but a worthy entry into exploitation cinema.

So i tried to watch this "movie" and the first time i only made it like 20 minutes in and i just couldnt watch it anymore. This looks like it was filmed by 2 yr olds. Now i wasnt around in 2004 so of course i havent seen many movies shot with older cameras but i do spend a lot of time with my grandparents and they watch black white tv shows with better quality than this. Not only that the girls were not pretty lmao. This was a horrible movie and its not based on a true story unless they changed the name of the guy who actually killed the people, william allen grone has no obituary or any arrest records from the 1990s or whatever. There was one william allen grone from 2011 which definitely was not him. Anyways, save yourself an hour and a half. There's better snuff flims out there.

After reading about this notorious film i finally managed to get my hands on it.In some ways it lived up to my expectations but in several ways it did not.The female acting was good, male acting was bad, the sound was bad but the music was superb and spooky.Although still quite disturbing and gripping the violence displayed was quite poor and very overrated, and without giving anything away the supposed real footage at the end, wasn't worth waiting for (one reviewer even suggested that the footage was fake, surprise, surprise!!!)I'm glad I've seen it, just to say so but its not by far one of the most disturbing films I've seen..............unfortunately.........if it did not have the end footage to sell the film i would say stay well clear nothing new, but the fact that the film makers added this, give it a go. Fans of gore sites on the net will watch this film and think...and?????????????

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.

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...