Not my cup 'o tea, I only watched it for Shane Ryan, an actor and filmmaker I've come to love, though while he directed some portion of this and clearly acted in parts, it's not like his other work. It definitely feels real and brutal in some parts, but without the beautiful and depressing poetic feel that is usually contributed with his films. At least many of these segments felt genuinely real (while disgusting, they achieved their goal), some though, felt so terribly cheesy. The portion with Ryan (which assuming he directed) was creepy and odd, and felt a bit too real actually. The opening segment (the first long one, in a foreign language, was probably the best and felt very similar to Ryan's APSK film). The worst was the couple who get kidnapped while vacationing - not sure why it was even in this. Some of these killings I believe were in fact real from what looked like public domain footage, only adding a very disturbing edge to this. Mixed in with real kids cutting (a scene from My Name is A by Ryan), little kids (like 2-3 years old) about to become victims, this surely makes you feel disgusted in humanity by the end (but without the beautiful payoff in Ryan's work, which without that, left me just feeling grossed out. I give it a 6. Minus 3 points for the cheesy segments, minus another for no redeeming value, but I can't argue it wasn't well done after that.
Review of Shane Ryan's Faces of Snuff
