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Snuff-Movie2005

Is it as real as it seems?

Directed by Bernard Rose

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IMDb 3.8TMDB 4.1
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Year
2005
Runtime
92 min

The premise

Boris Arkadin is a horror film maker. His pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson-like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. He becomes a virtual recluse - until years later he directs his own snuff inspired movies. He invites actors to take part in an audition at his country manor house - blurring the lines of what is real and what is fiction.

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Reclusive horror auteur Boris Arkadin carries a decades-old wound — the savage cult murder of his pregnant wife — that has quietly curdled into something monstrous. When he lures a group of actors to his isolated country manor under the guise of an audition, the boundary between performance and genuine peril begins to dissolve in deeply uncomfortable ways. Blending the aesthetics of underground snuff filmmaking with psychological manipulation, the film forces both its characters and its audience to question what they are truly watching. Arkadin's world is one where the camera never lies — or perhaps never tells the whole truth.

Content: Graphic Violence, Hanging, Depictions Of Murder, Disturbing Imagery, Exploitation Themes, Violence Against Pregnant Women

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