Highest-Rated Movies about 'Snuff Film'

Nightcrawler (2014), Peeping Tom (1960), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Tesis (1996), Videodrome (1983), Harry Brown (2009), Strange Days (1995), Benny's Video (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Snuff Film movies.

#16. Mute Witness (1995)

Storyline: Billy Hughes, a mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she's seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive.—James Meek <james@oz.net>

Plot Keywords: mute, chase, russian mafia, cult film, faked death, masked killer, unsubtitled foreign language ...

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#17. John Doe: Vigilante (2014)

Storyline: Some call him a hero. Some call him a villain. He's "John Doe: Vigilante" - an ordinary man who decides to take the law into his own hands. Frustrated with a failing legal system that continues to allow violent criminals to go free, John Doe begins exacting justice the only way he knows how - by killing one criminal at a time. Soon he becomes a media sensation and inspires a group of copycat vigilantes, but who is the real John Doe - a pillar of justice or a cold-blooded murderer? You decide.—Main Street Films

Plot Keywords: vigilante, sociopath, stabbed in the chest, tied to a chair, anti hero, arrest, gun ...

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#18. A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Storyline: Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.

Plot Keywords: violence, drug dealer, murder of wife, ex cop, alcoholics anonymous, flashback, murder ...

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#19. 8MM (1999)

Storyline: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye.

Plot Keywords: male full frontal nudity, torture, sexual torture, sexual sadism, pornography, female nudity, fellatio ...

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#20. Vacancy (2007)

Storyline: David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. Luckily, they come across a motel with a TV to entertain them during their overnight stay. However, there's something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. They all appear to be filmed in the very same room they occupy! Realizing that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras now aimed at them filming their every move, David and Amy desperately find a means of escape through locked doors, crawlspaces and underground tunnels before they too become the newest stars of the mystery filmmaker's next cult classic!

Plot Keywords: slasher, estranged couple, murder, one night, survival horror, psychological torture, sadistic horror ...

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#21. Bad Influence (1990)

Storyline: Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces himself as Alex, and the two go out to an under- ground club. Within a matter of days, Alex wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down, and Michael doesn't realize that Alex is a dangerous sociopath until it's too late.—Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu>

Plot Keywords: bar, neo noir, homosexual subtext, psychopath, frame up, psycho thriller, yuppie ...

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#22. 15 Minutes (2001)

Storyline: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."

Plot Keywords: criminal, detective, media, camera, murder of a police officer, airport, tied to a tree ...

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#23. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

Storyline: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.

Plot Keywords: murder, found footage, psycho, psycho killer, psychopathic killer, maniac, serial murderer ...

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#24. The Den (2013)

Storyline: A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

Plot Keywords: laptop, computer, talking to the camera, brutality, masked killer, mask, anguish ...

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#25. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Storyline: In 1979, intent on venturing into the vast and unexplored areas of the virgin Amazon rainforest, a small American film crew attempt to make a documentary about the region's indigenous cannibalistic tribes, only to disappear without a trace. As the noted anthropologist, Harold Monroe, and his team of seasoned guides embark on a rescue mission to locate the missing documentarians in the heart of the Green Inferno, fearful tribes that no white has ever seen before will soon start to take interest in them. Inevitably, as the professor unearths more evidence about the fate of the film crew by sheer luck, a desperate battle to recover the raw footage that was paid in blood will commence--after all, the world must know the savage and unspeakable atrocities captured on the riveting unedited footage. In the end, what has really happened to the overambitious explorers, and the shocking final two reels?

Plot Keywords: actual animal killed, penis, female nudity, animal cruelty, film within a film, exploitation film, nudity ...

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#26. Sabotage (2014)

Storyline: An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again and then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light.

Plot Keywords: strip club, topless female nudity, stripper, tough girl, kicked in the crotch, death, drug addict ...

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#27. Horsemen (2009)

Storyline: Aidan Breslin is a bitter detective emotionally distanced from his two young sons following the untimely death of his devoted wife. While investigating a series of murders of rare violence, he discovers a terrifying link between a chain of murders and the Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence, and Conquest.

Plot Keywords: bible quote, blood, blood splatter, birthday cake, bible, babysitter, autopsy ...

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#28. Unfriended (2014)

Storyline: While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

Plot Keywords: skype, teen horror, self mutilation, group of friends, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, underage drinking, forced suicide ...

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#29. The Counselor (2013)

Storyline: A rich and successful lawyer, the Counselor, is about to get married to his fiancée but soon becomes entangled in a complex drug plot with a middle-man known as Westray. The plan ends up taking a horrible twist and he must protect himself and his soon to be bride as the truth of the drug business is uncovered and targets are eliminated.

Plot Keywords: drug smuggling, fingering, cunnilingus, sex scene, decapitation, shootout, cocaine ...

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#30. Sinister 2 (2015)

Storyline: Following the events from the first film, a different family; a mother and her 2 sons move into a rural house that's marked for death. When the deputy from the first film learns that this family is next in line to fall to the demon Bhughul, he races before time to stop it and save them from the same fate.

Plot Keywords: deputy, freeze to death, rat, tied feet, spider, ghost child, hanging upside down ...

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