“SNUFF“ (El ángel de la muerte) 1976

Also known as “American Cannibale“ Snuff is a 1976 splatter horror film, and is most notorious for being marketed as if it were an actual snuff film. This picture contributed to the urban legend of snuff films, although the concept did not originate with it. Although the film was exposed as a hoax in Variety in 1976, it became popular in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Boston. The rumours persisted that the film showed a real-life murder. Rompted by complaints and petitions from well-known writers, including Eric Bentley and Susan Brownmiller, and legislators”, an investigation began into the circumstances surrounding the film’s production, conducted by New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, who dismissed the supposedly “real” murder as “nothing more than conventional trick photography as is evident to anyone who sees the movie“ Morgenthau reassured the public that the actress being dismembered and killed in the ending of the film “is alive and well”, having urged the police to trace her.