Snuff Film Double Feature Hardcore/Cheap

I reviewed A Serbian Film, Snuff: A documentary About Killing on Camera, and The Bunny Game, which all involved the idea of torture porn or snuff flicks to some capacity. There's almost a little sub-genre of films that use snuff films as a plot device. It's an intriguing little plot device, but A Serbian Film is a little to extreme for most audiences. If you'd like to see a film that uses the same sort of plot devices but is not so extreme there is a good film like that from 1979 called Hardcore. It starts George C. Scott as a Calvinist businessman from Grand Rapids, Michigan whose daughter run away during a Church Youth group trip. George C. Scoot's character hires a PI who finds that the daughter is in porno films. The PI is billing George C. Scott's character for prostitutes, the Calvinist goes looking for information in the red light district for himself, an unfamiliar environment. He starts to play the part and pose as an investor in the porn industry. He picks up his daughter's trail. He gets a hooker sidekick towards the end. Very, very suspenseful 70's film. It becomes more and more clear that's there's some snuff flick action involved.The film is dark but not very explicit. It would make more sense if George C. Scott's character had a gun, because there's a bunch of scenes of this older man beating people up that are implausible. That's the films only true flaw. It's a great little movie. For the real sickos who troll this page looking for actual snuff flick or as close to it as they can get, this is not the film to watch. It paints even the regular porn industry in a negative light. Good triumphs over evil in this film, which would on;y barely get an R rating today for nudity and profanity. However, the sinister history of films about snuff films would not be complete without it. A very different film about making snuff films is Cheap from 2005. Here is the link to where you can see it- http://thecinemasnob.com/2009/12/06/stoned-gremlin-productions-presents-cheap.aspx You may have seen a guy on-line reviewing films on-line called the Cinema Snob. He has a really funny review of a movie called E.T. The porno, I'm not sure if he still has it up. His real name is Brad Jones and Cheap is a low budget film he made. Brad Jones also stars in the film. He plays a failed porn director who gets two young women to help make snuff films. There's a porn producer with a cocaine problem who distributes the films, which are a huge success on-line. Of all the films about making snuff films from Hardcore to A Serbian Film, this is the one that is the lowest budget and the cheesiest. F-bombs features so prominently in the script, it's more . It's pretty funny. Low budget as it is, the violence in it looks kind of real. It also uses an oldies station soundtrack- I think Brad Jones probably didn't even bother paying for the rights to the songs involved. This is less like a movie then it is a two-hour YouTube video.To compare the production quality it's about as low budget as the Necro Files which I also reviewed on here. As with the Necro Files, a baby doll is used for a dead baby, which has how low-budget the thing really is. The exception is Brad Jones himself who does a decent job at playing an evil pervert which is the one real saving grace of the film. Brad Jones is a funny guy. The plot line picks up a little bit when the distributor rapes one of the young women that makes the snuff film, but that's more than half way through. The other thing is that the masks the women wear in the film are highly quite unsettling. This is better than some of the micro budget films I've scene like Stripclub Slasher in so far as Brad Jones is a real character. If they had had a larger budget when they made this film and a decent script editor who would discourage the excessive use of the f-word in the film, it might have been good. The general premise is fine.