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Wrong release year posted


I remember seeing this movie in '74 not '76 as posted.

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How did you manage that. It was released and reviewed in 1976. Stories about snuff films were planted in newspapers at the end of 1975. Your memory is going.

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I did a little research myself and everything seems to state release date as 1976. I could've swore it was '74. I remember seeing it in high school but I thought it was in the 10th grade not grade 12.

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What age is 10th grade? Did you sneak in?

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Dude you may have see this in 74 as it was originally titled Slaughter (made in 71) it had the final scene tacked on later when it was re-released as Snuff. A great example of a fantastic piece of crap !!!

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It was never released as slaughter. It was shot under that name but sat on a shelf gathering dust until shckleton picked up the rights.

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Snuff was premiered in January 1976 in Indianapolis. Not October 1975. The final scene for the film was not shot until the end of 1975 so Oldeskool could not have seen it much earlier, even if he knew Shackleton personally, and i am sure he would have remembered that screening. Shackleton liked running round with other people's wives, not their children.

The film Slaughter was shot in Argentina WITH NO SOUND because the cast was Argentinean (hence NOT English speaking)with the notion of dubbing dialogue on later. So, maybe he saw a silent version? Or maybe someone went to all the trouble and expense of putting a dialogue track on to the film because they saw great market potential for it?

Who knows?

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