snuff movie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Times' Carol Midgley agrees, calling the show "a bit of a snuff movie" before going on to critique Hans Zimmer's "excessive" score.
From BBC
It’s not quite a snuff movie, though haunted by a similar balefulness.
From The Guardian
"If we allowed people to pay for tickets and go to a snuff movie where people are murdered for the sake of art, is that acceptable?"
From BBC
In this newspaper, under the headline “Don’t give an Oscar to this snuff movie”, Fraser expressed his distaste for Oppenheimer’s approach.
From The Guardian
Sorkin, writer of the recent Facebook movie The Social Network, also accused the Fox News contributor of making a "snuff movie" after the latest episode of Sarah's Palin's Alaska featured the politician going hunting with her father and shooting a caribou.
From The Guardian
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