How bad is it? It's one of the lesser grindhouse staples of the 1970's.
Should you see it? It's certainly not mandatory.
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| He pulls her heart out - from her bowels? |
After Michael and Roberta Findlay had made a bunch of roughies, he got the idea of saving money by filming in Argentina without sound, then adding sound so that it looked like it was a South American film. It turns out that his dubbing of voices was worse than what you usually get from Spanish language films. The original film was called "Slaughter" and it was so bad it couldn't be released; then, when a rumor of an authentic snuff film from South America started circulating, this film got sold and had the ending changed by tacking on a fake snuff scene. the plot has an American actress brought to South America, where she encounters a Manson-like cult. there's some scenes of Carnivale, a stabbing in the heart, some women fighting over the cult leader, the actress's pregnancy by the cult leader and then her "slaughter" by the cult. The film is fairly short. but still hard to sit through, but not because of violence. It got banned in the U.K. as a "video nasty" and that's really why anyone knows about it today.
Thus far, no authentic snuff film has been made.
Thus far, noone has found the actual END of SLAUGHTER, either.
ReplyDeleteI actually dug Slaughter quite a bit. It's incoherent nonsense, but it's my kind of incoherent nonsense. Pity about that snuff ending. The snuff ending is way lame, but I do admire seeing the Findlays get both out-sleazed and out-exploited within their own movie.
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