Antedating of "Snuff Film / Movie"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The OED's first use of _snuff_, attrib., as in _snuff film_ or _snuff movie_ is dated 1975.  According to Wikipedia:

"The first recorded use of the term is in a 1971 book by Ed Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion, in which it is alleged that The Manson Family might have been involved in the making of such a film."

Fred Shapiro



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