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(1995)

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Watchable but highly-flawed degenerate effort
kannibalcorpsegrinder29 November 2021
Living in a struggling relationship, a couple into bondage and BDSM attempting to find new ways of supporting themselves when they encounter financial woes, and when they stumble upon the idea of making a snuff tape of their neighbors' wife are driven to extreme lengths to accomplish their goal.

Overall, this was a pretty bland and uneventful genre effort. The main thing here is the rather frank and honest depiction of their relationship as a couple heavily involved in the BDSM culture, which is the main appeal in the feature. Showing how utterly dominated he is by the girl, who dresses him down in feminine clothes, leads him around like a dog, and is utterly reliant on leading him around through various humiliation tactics that signify how under her thumb he really is. Even with the failed prostitution idea that goes sour for him, the fact that she takes charge and orders him into the abduction and eventual kidnapping that leads into murder, and the idea for making homemade snuff tapes. However, these are neither erotic nor scary, as the matter-of-fact nature of the scenes and flimsy means of producing everything so even with the grimy concepts at play the visuals are quite underwhelming. That also goes along with the highly confusing setup that tries to pack in several excessive storylines that don't need to be there. The relationship with the neighbors who are going through their own struggles could've meant more had there been more time to understand what they were going through since we're barely given much about who they are beyond the husband being sexually stymied and her being unwilling to go with anymore. This ends up causing the series of scenes showing the delivery of the tapes to his house of how they're torturing her to be weirdly engaging and sexually stimulating to her husband who spends more time pleasuring himself to his wife's torture than actually trying to rescue her from the people who are right next door given than they're plainly visible in the video itself. Not giving any of these some context just makes for a confusing and directionless storyline. However, that also highlights how little context the rest of the stories here get which is what makes this a generally underwhelming effort. The fact that they go from a couple that are highly into domination and humiliation in their relationship to openly kidnapping a woman off the streets, taking her back to their place where they tie her up, torture her and film it as a ransom for her husband to pay them some extra money to make ends meet is a series of leaps the film never addresses. Relying exclusively on the brutality and shocking nature of what they inflict on her and each other is what this one has going for it, and while that all tend to be grimy and sleazy and somewhat depraved in the best way possible that hardly any of it makes sense is what ultimately holds this one back from what it could've been.

Rated Unrated/NC-17: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Male and Female Nudity and Sexual Situations, Graphic Violence, and continuous bodily fluid discharges.
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French filth.
BA_Harrison4 February 2022
I Love Snuff is the type of film that you hope to god no-one finds on your hard-drive before you've had a chance to delete it. It's an utterly demented piece of home-made filth, full of unsimulated acts of deviancy, and although there is nothing here that actually breaks the law (if you're looking for real snuff, look elsewhere you sicko!), there is still plenty that goes way beyond what most people would deem acceptable behaviour. And that's pretty much the whole point of the film: to upset and shock by presenting the viewer with unspeakable acts of perversion-and take it from one who isn't easily offended... the film succeeds in what it sets out to do!

I remember seeing a French short called Mongolitos way back in 1989; it was easily the most depraved film I had encountered at the time; now that I've just finished watching I Love Snuff, I can now safely say that this is the filthiest piece of trash I have ever witnessed, blowing Mongolitos out of the water! And whaddya know... it's French as well. Makes one wonder what they're putting in the garlic over there.

The film opens with a most unappealing close-up shot of male and female genitalia, as a guy listed as 'Le branleur impuissant' (played by Pascal Keller) fails to get it up for his wife Rose; when she complains about his lack of wood, he boots her out. Meanwhile, their neighbours -- a dominatrix (Anne van der Linden) and her snivelling sub (Jean-Louis Costes) -- try to come up with ways to raise money to pay their mounting bills. When selling the sub's ass to gay men fails to make any cash, the pair abduct Rose and hold her for ransom, demanding 100,000 francs from her husband for her release. When the husband tells them to do one, they video Rose being tortured and post the tape to him, but instead of making him want to cough up the dosh to have her released, he finds the tape a turn on (but not enough to bring him to completion).

He tells them that if they expect him to pay up, they need to try harder...

Graphic full-frontal male and female nudity; anal penetration by a variety of objects; masturbation; a disgusting scene of defecation; assorted bodily fluids; rape, mutilation, torture and murder: directors Jean-Louis Costes and Yves Pierog go all out to steal the title of filthiest filmmakers ever from the likes of John Waters and Pasolini, whose work seems positively conservative by comparison. This is ugly, scuzzy, zero-budget sleaze, not for the faint-hearted or queasy, yet made with a streak of dark humour that just about prevents it from becoming too mean-spirited and nasty. It's not something I'm even going to attempt to rate -- watch it if you dare and make up your own mind.
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