A tale of corruption and betrayal set against the backdrop of snuff films and the notorious murder and mutilation of Elizabeth «The Black Dahlia» Short (the always - unspeakably sexy Mia Kirshner), The Black Dahlia is the kind of De Palma plastic fantastic that renders his films candy - coloured genre dissertations. (filmfreakcentral.net)
by Bill Chambers I suppose I'm a hypocrite, because one of the reasons I don't like the Marcus Nispel remake of Tobe Hooper's 1974 masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is that it's basically the Young Guns version, a fun - size snuff film with a reductively commercial aesthetic that literalizes the Grant Wood underpinnings of the original. (filmfreakcentral.net)
Going by its title alone, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe sounds like a Faces Of Death knockoff or maybe one of those Japanese gore videos from the»80s like the one that made Charlie Sheen call the cops because he thought he was watching a real snuff film. (avclub.com)