Snuff movies' in horror & supernatural fiction

[dem bones]

Snuff movies' in horror & supernatural fiction.

First thought was to add this to When urban legends meet supernatural fiction, but there are likely enough entries to warrant separate thread. As ever, no one is claiming listing is anything approaching 'comprehensive' - it's a start, is all. Will expand if and when more material comes to light. There are maybe a few on the Imaginary Films thread, for starters. Any suggestions?


Novels

John Blackburn - Devil Daddy, (Jonathan Cape, 1972).
'Jerry Bronson' - Cut (Pinnacle, 1976)
Graham King - Killtest, (Arrow, 1978.
Richard Laymon - Out Are The Lights (NEL, 1982)
David Lindsay - Heat From Another Sun (Corgi, 1986)
C. Dean Andersson - Torture Tomb, (Popular Library, 1987)
Rex Miller - Frenzy (Onyx, 1988)
J.F. Gonzalez - Survivor (Dorchester, 2006)

Short stories

John Burke - A Comedy Of Terrors: (Herbert Van Thal [ed.], 9th Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1968)
Raymond Williams - Smile Please: (Herbert Van Thal [ed.], 9th Pan Book of Horror Stories, 1968)
Philip Pullman - Video Nasty: (Jean Richardson [ed.], Cold Feet, 1985; Peter Haining [ed.] Scary 2, 2003, Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories, 2007).
Ray Garton - Sinema: (David Schow, ed. Silver Scream, 1988)
Joe R. Lansdale - The Night They Missed The Horror Show: (David Schow, ed. Silver Scream, 1988)
Michael Marshall Smith - More Tomorrow: (Dark Terrors, 1995).
Ronald Kelly - Scream Queen: (Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett [eds.], Seeds of Fear: Hot Blood #5, 1995).
Bruce Jones - Home Movies: (Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett [eds.], Stranger by Night: Hot Blood #6, 1995).
Graham Watkins - Comeback: (Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett [eds.], Kiss and Kill: Hot Blood #8, 1997).
Thana Niveau - Guinea Pig Girl: (Charles Black [ed.], Tenth Black Book of Horror, 2013).

[andydecker]

Maybe Tim Lucas' Throat Sprockets?

I have to add I never read it, I missed it and nowadays it is riduculous expensive. 

Considering all the furor about supposed snuff movies there are not too many novels with the topic.

[dem bones]

Thanks, Andreas. No surprise I'd never heard of it.

Max Plaisted

Jeff Seeman - The Cutting Room. (Eric Miller [ed.] Hell Comes to Hollywood, 2012).
John Palisano - Welcome to the Jungle. (Eric Miller [ed.] Hell Comes to Hollywood II, 2014).

Two that didn't set out to be snuff movies but became so regardless.

Anna Taborska - Cut!. (Johnny Mains [ed] (Screaming Book of Horror, 2013).
Sydney J. Bounds - The Relic. (London Mystery Magazine #82, Sept. 1969: Philip Harbottle [ed.], Best of Sydney J Bounds: Vol 2, 2003)

A number of the Future sports novels - the aforementioned Killtest, Richard Bachman's The Running Man, Gary Wolf's Killerbowl, etc. - qualify on account of they are live-streamed on pay to view channels, and no-one tunes in to see the contestants survive.

Maybe Jack Martin's Videodrome (have never yet managed to finish it)? Was there a novelisation of 8mm?

Neat article; Scott Aaron Stine, The Snuff Film: The Making of an Urban Legend, (Skeptical Inquirer, May - June 1999).

[andydecker]

Where is the illustration originally from? As amusing as Bellem is in small doses, his stories are everywhere. And this looks at least as a proto-snuff movie story. Pretty graphic for the time.

[dem bones]

Aug 1, 2020 9:54:49 GMT andydecker said:

Where is the illustration originally from? As amusing as Bellem is in small doses, his stories are everywhere. And this looks at least as a proto-snuff movie story. Pretty graphic for the time.

It's from Spicy Detective for Oct. 1935. Am pretty sure this pdf first appeared on Pulpgen, which doesn't seem to be functioning just now (?), so thanks and warm wishes to them!

Attachments:

deathsbrighthalo.pdf (362.33 KB)

[andydecker]

Thanks for the link and your efforts, dem. This is quite an eye-opener.

[dem bones]

A pair of contenders from Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett's Seeds of Fear: Hot Blood #5, 1995.

Paul Dale Anderson - What You See. "The key to operating a successful business," her father taught her, "is to keep overheads low. Occupy a market niche that can command a high price for goods and services, and slice costs to the bone."
Her father had been her first costar, and she's certainly sliced him to the bone."

The three faces of Cindy/ Sandy/ Marsha. None of them good news.

J. N. Williamson - High Concept. Porn star Eddie Burgess steps the other side of the camera to film his gigantic girlfriend use sleazy producer, Adam Chalminski, as a human bouncy castle.

[dem bones]

Perhaps my favourite individual story from the super 3rd BHF Book of Horror Stories, 2019.

Aug 17, 2020 5:52:50 GMT fritzmaitland said:

The First Horror Movie – Darrell Buxton - a kind of reply to The Last Horror Movie. A film scholar is delighted to receive ten canisters of film from the house of one of Britain's pioneers of the cinema. As he starts watching them he's rather disgusted by the content, but amazed by the primitive special effects. As he watches more reels of film, he starts to suspect those aren't special effects...

[dem bones]

Should imagine this one may be difficult to get hold of.

Gene Duris - Real Endings. Manor 1978. All of the lower-rung publishers issued a paperback featuring snuff movies, as the theory of their existence spread. This is told partially from the view of the actress who relays the director’s increasing demand for “realness.”

Justin Marriott, Grindhouse publishing, Men of Violence #12, Dec. 2020.

[dem bones]

Norman Kauffman - An Experiment with H2O: (Herbert Van Thal [ed], 16th Pan Book of Horror, 1975). Unpleasant man in a jar footage from the Stoddard women's private collection.

[pbsplatter]

Jack Ketchum, "Mail Order" (Voices from the Night, 1994; reprinted in Peaceable Kingdom and The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard)

[dem bones]

Ellen Datlow [ed.]'s The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen, 2015, reprints;

A. C. Wise - Final Girl Theory: (ChiZine #48, Apr-June 2011).

Nicholas Royle - The Pied Piper of Hammersmith: (Time Out, Oct. 1997).

Douglas E. Winter - Bright Lights, Big Zombie: (John Skipp & Craig Spector [eds.], Still Dead, 1992).

Garry Kilworth - Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of Fitzcarraldo: (In the Hollow of the Deep-Sea Wave: A Novel and Seven Stories, 1989).