snuff film

plural snuff films

1. broadcastingA film that shows, or purports to show, the actual deliberate killing of one of the performers.

   Their whole case that porn is violent rests on classifying s/m porn as violent, and lumping it in with the snuff film.

   1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 7

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   Veiksaar's half-baked .aic was running the camera feeds, and traced the path of destruction beginning in the workroom with brutal efficiency. The views snapped from scene to scene on five second intervals, and it was like watching an interpolation of every snuff film ever made. At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead.

   2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604

   Synonyms: snuff movie, snuff video