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PRONUNCIATION OF SNUFF FILM

snuff film  [snʌf fɪlm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNUFF FILM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Snuff film is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SNUFF FILM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Snuff film

A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation. Some filmed records of executions and murders exist but have not been made or released for commercial purposes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SNUFF FILM


biofilm
ˈbaɪəʊˌfɪlm
clingfilm
ˈklɪŋˌfɪlm
film
fɪlm
microfilm
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfɪlm
pliofilm
ˈplaɪəʊˌfɪlm
refilm
riːˈfɪlm
telefilm
ˈtelɪfɪlm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SNUFF FILM

snubfin dolphin
snubness
snuck
snudge
snuff
snuff it
snuff movie
snuff-dipping
snuffbox
snuffer
snuffers
snuffier
snuffiest
snuffily
snuffiness
snuffle
snuffler
snuffles
snuffly
snuffy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SNUFF FILM

action film
buddy film
cine film
colour film
cooking film
cult film
documentary film
feature film
feature-length film
horror film
movie film
news film
pilot film
reversal film
roll film
safety film
slasher film
television film
test film
thin-film
travel film

Synonyms and antonyms of snuff film in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «snuff film» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SNUFF FILM

Find out the translation of snuff film to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of snuff film from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snuff film» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鼻烟电影
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

película de tabaco
570 millions of speakers

English

snuff film
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नास फिल्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فيلم السعوط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нюхательный фильм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

snuff film
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ফীত চলচ্চিত্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

film de tabac à priser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Filem snuff
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Snuff-Film
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スナッフ映画
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스너프 필름
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Snuff film
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phim hít
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடிப்பு படம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्नफ फिल्म
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Snuff filmi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pellicola snuff
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

filmów snuff
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нюхальний фільм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prizat de film
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταμπάκο ταινία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

snuif film
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snus film
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snuff film
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of snuff film

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SNUFF FILM»

The term «snuff film» is regularly used and occupies the 106.681 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SNUFF FILM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «snuff film» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «snuff film» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about snuff film

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNUFF FILM»

Discover the use of snuff film in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snuff film and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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No Way of Knowing: Crime, Urban Legends and the Internet
MEDIA TREATMENTS OF SNUFF FILM LEGEND Newspapers Newspaper references to the snuff film in the years 1989 to 1999 were sought by using Lexis- Nexis Academic Universe, which indexes articles from the 50 U.S. newspapers with ...
Pamela Donovan, 2004
2
Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film ...
When the reality principle of pornography is conjoined with the mutilation principle of horror, a different order of film is constituted, not horror but the snuff film. As an analytic category, snuff refers to films in which women are actually killed ...
Isabel Cristina Pinedo, 1997
3
Urban Legends: Snuff Film, Urban Legend, Cow Tipping, Area ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, LLC Books, Books Group, 2010
4
The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction
A snuff film, for anyone who doesn't know, is when someone is murdered on video for the sole purpose of selling that video or watching it and finding enjoyment from it. Rusty Nelson, [Russell E. Nelson] the photographer of a known pedophile ...
Mark Dice, 2009
5
Gods of Death: Around the World, Behind Closed Doors, ...
An investigative journalist travels from Thailand to France to suburban America in search of the shocking world of snuff pornography, describing this small, fragmented, but very real business that trades in illicit sex and death. 75,000 ...
Yaron Svoray, Thomas Hughes, 1997
6
Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins
What these strategies accomplish is to construct the same controlling frame around the visual content of the snuff film that Andrew Kevin Walker has written into the narrative in regard to the arc of Tom Welles' s personal experiences. Cutting ...
Robert G. Weiner, John Cline, 2010
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and ...
17, 1945 2 a movie purporting to depict the actual killing of someone, usually a woman US, 1990 • They made a snuffer of her. I saw the video. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 278, 1990 snuff film; snuff flick; snuff movie noun a movie purporting  ...
Tom Dalzell, 2008
8
Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary
Authenticity is eroticized in the snuff film at the same time that real death is fetishized. The plot of 8MM hinges on the authenticity of the film. Tom enters the underground world of the sex industry in Hollywood in order to find the people in the ...
Georgina Colby, 2011
9
Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon
snuff-film-within-the-film is it made clear that Henry and Otis are in fact the principal viewers. It is their emotionless, affektlos reaction to the video that provides such a stark contrast to what is presumably our horrified reaction at watching the ...
Xavier Mendik, Steven Jay Schneider, 2013
10
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition ...
As Scott Aaron Stine demonstrated in his 1999 article, the “snuff film” idea has evolved “from gradeZ slasher film to hoax to antipornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.” Snuff films are claimed to be  ...
Jan Harold Brunvand, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNUFF FILM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snuff film is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ask the Critic: Can Mad Max get a Best Picture nod and will the …
If I was grading the film based solely on George Miller's bonkers action scenes, I would ... Should I expect to see reviews of child pornography or snuff films next? «Entertainment Weekly, Jun 15»
2
Analyst who viewed snuff film on shock at seeing 'most horrific …
He referred to it as a “snuff movie”, adding: “A snuff movie usually consists of a person being tortured or sexually abused and who is killed either before, during ... «Gazette Live, May 15»
3
Teen terror solely via computer
The film starts out with the snuff film - as viewed by one of the film's less-heinous teens, Blaire (Ouija's Shelley Hennig). It's her computer that gives us access to ... «Philly.com, Apr 15»
4
ISIS Snuff Films? Sleight of Hand
But the film may have also been an act of perverse theater, and one ISIS has performed before. According to multiple national-security officials and terrorism ... «Daily Beast, Feb 15»
5
The 10 Most Frightening Found-Footage Films Ever Made
A serial killer's extensive collection of torture and snuff films is recovered by investigators in Upstate New York. With no apparent pattern other than brutality, the ... «Decider, Oct 14»
6
It's time for more Saw, say the producers of Saw
Would they be forced to each produce a snuff film, with whoever came up with the smaller budget cast as its unwilling star? The journalist entered the room, ... «A.V. Club Austin, Oct 14»
7
Wolff: The snuff film war
In the 1970s, a rumor rose to the level of urban myth that murders — actual murders as they were committed — were being filmed and distributed to a hardcore ... «USA TODAY, Aug 14»
8
Watch FMTV Movie Myths – Is Cannibal Holocaust a snuff film?!
It's one of the most graphic and depraved films in all of cinema history, but was Italian ... notorious 1980 video nasty Cannibal Holocaust actually a snuff film? «Flickering Myth, Aug 14»
9
Film Review: In East Texas, Blood Runs 'Cold In July'
When Richard comes to Russell's rescue (in one of the film's many ... child - in fact, he makes snuff films and Russell's hope for an overdue reunion sours into ... «KCUR, May 14»
10
Police did NOTHING to track down victim of child porn snuff film
BRITISH police seized the world's first known “snuff” child pornography video in which a ... A film seized during a raid on a Latvian man's house in Skelmersdale, ... «Express.co.uk, May 14»

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