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This is yet another film that uses the making of snuff films for the central plot-line. I've reviewed a number of them, and will continue to do so, just because, well, I get hits when I do. As I've said, I'm really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel on these films. This one is memorable in so far as the director of one of the worst films I've ever seen, if not the worst, appears in this film playing himself. Bill Zebub who made Zombie Christ is in this one as himself. Also, I had plans to review August Underground, but the director of the August Underground films, Fred Vogel, appears in this film also as himself, and having seen him speak and seen clips from August Underground in it, I'll pass. While S&Man is not the worst film I've ever seen in my life, it is one that made me bored and kind of depressed. S&Man (pronounced "SandMan") is a 2006 film that incorporates documentary footage of real underground filmmakers, as well as interviews with a film theory type named Carol J. Clover and professional specialists that work with sex offenders. There is also a fictional plot strain about a fictional filmmaker named Eric who stalks girls and kills them on camera. A big problem with this film is that Eric is kind of a composite of stereotypes and not much of a character, or at least not an interesting one. Bill Zebub gets in a good line which is "I don't shot films to be a piece of cinema, I shot these films so perverts to give me money"- and having seen Zombie Christ I can testify that that is true. Alas, Bill Zebub, the sub-genre of horror films that use the making of snuff films- this kind of stuff isn't even what interests me the most within the rubric of horror films. I review it with a cynical reason mush the same as Bill Zebub's, although it isn't cash in my case but publicity in the hopes of getting a big enough name that I can get other kinds of projects off the ground. Carol J. Clover might be an interesting to sit down and have a conversation with, the same certainly is true of the people they have that work with sex offenders on there. I don't know if I really care about Zebub or Vogel that much. Then, of course, I've seen so many films now that use snuff films as a plot device that it would be veritably impossible for me not to be sick of the topic.