the "myth of snuff" can be traced back to an interview with Charles Manson ("Manson claimed to have recorded some of the celebrity murders perpetrated by his followers under his authority")
in 1972, film distributor Alan Shackleton re-edited 1971 erotic horror film The Slaughter;
"added a last scene in which one of the actresses is disemboweled (fictionally) in front of the camera, and rereleased this new edit under the title Snuff [in 1976]"
Preciado: "the notion of snuff is opposed to the dramatic and simulated and mimetic quality of all representation"