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Fortunately no. The legend about the existence of films in which the actors actually died in front of the cameras began to spread in the 1970s. The Family – The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion, a book by writer Ed Sanders about serial killer Charles Manson and his followers. There were accusations (never proven) that the group carried out this type of work. Manson would eventually become the indirect inspiration for the first film to be titled snuff.(see below). Since then, this myth has been reused by several other productions, such as the Japanese series Za Ginipigg («Guinea pig»). The theme also yielded the thriller 8 mmstarring Nicolas Cage in 1999.
THE MERCHANT OF DEATH
Smart-ass filmmaker created the urban legend
1. In 1972, distributor Allan Shackleton released Slaughter (“Massacre”), a cheap horror film based on the crimes of the murderer Charles Manson. It was a box office failure. Three years later, a fan admitted to Shackleton that he thought the crude scenes of violence were real.
two. The manager then had the idea of shooting a new ending, showing the “film crew” supposedly mutilating the main actress. When the cruelty is almost over, the camera “runs out of film”, and only the panicked voices of the victims and someone asking if everything had been filmed remain.
3. Shackleton retitled the film assnuffand began to spread the word that there was a film with real scenes of death about to be released. The controversy worked: the feature even beat the box office of the Oscar-winning drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in New York for three weeks
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