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Amateur Porn Star Killer
Theatrical Release Aug. 24, 2007 DVD Release Nov. 6, 2007
Festival Premiere July 30, 2006 Length 70 Minutes Distributors Wild Eye Releasing (WorldWide), Cinema Epoch / Mongolian Barbeque + Entertainment One / Koch Entertainment + MVD Entertainment Group (former distributors). Starring Michiko Jimenez, Shane Ryan, Jan Gould Director, Producer, Editor Shane Ryan Writers, Camera Shane Ryan, Michiko Jimenez Executive Producers Jeremy Williams, Nikki Nishimoto |
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Synopsis
The term "snuff film" first originated in the early 1970’s. Also known as "white heat" and "the real thing." In 1975, the FBI investigated rumors of snuff in America. For the past 30+ years, thousands of people have claimed that they’ve seen an actual snuff film. To this day it remains an "urban legend". Amateur Porn Star Killer follows a Ted Bundy-like serial killer, Brandon, and his next victim, Stacy, who is about to become an unwilling participant in Brandon's movie.
The term "snuff film" first originated in the early 1970’s. Also known as "white heat" and "the real thing." In 1975, the FBI investigated rumors of snuff in America. For the past 30+ years, thousands of people have claimed that they’ve seen an actual snuff film. To this day it remains an "urban legend". Amateur Porn Star Killer follows a Ted Bundy-like serial killer, Brandon, and his next victim, Stacy, who is about to become an unwilling participant in Brandon's movie.
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Press/Screenings
Festivals
-2006 Action On Film International Film Festival (Long Beach, CA)
-2007 Theatrical Release, Laemmle Theatres (Los Angeles, CA)
-2008 The X Fest (South Africa)
-2014 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Switzerland) Shane Ryan retrospective series
-2015 Sadique-Master Festival (Paris, France)
Interviews/Features
-Shane Ryan speaks with Musique [Machine], Film School Rejects, Mr. Skin, Sex Gore Mutants, Film Threat (Part 1, 2), Creative Future
-Michiko Jimenez via Film Threat
-Articles; Excess Hollywood, Word & Film, AMC TV, Cultura Colectiva, AVN, Bloody-Disgusting, Bright Lights Film, Horror Society, SL City Weekly, The Movie Sleuth, and mentioned in the reviews for 2020's Choke Horror Society, Rue Morgue, Flickering Myth, The Rotting Zombie, iHorror, The Movie Sleuth, El Horror
-Featured in the books Äkta skräck, The New Flesh: 21st Century Horror Vol. 1, Shattered Innocence, Lost and Found, Earogenous Zones: Sound, Sexuality and Cinema, Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage, The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America, Les dossiers Sadique-master Dissection du cinéma underground extrême, Killing for Culture: From Edison to ISIS: A New History of Death on Film, New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror, 31 Days of Terror and VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties.
-Film Studies; The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie, a 2012 Academic Conference and Film Event presented by Bournemouth University (UK) in a panel entitled ‘Snuff and the Body: Self, Performance and Affect’ from a paper by Dr. Steve Jones. Jones also discusses the series in his book, Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw, and dives into the mind of its serial killer, Brandon, with great depth and insight in the book Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media.
-Sheffield Hallam University's very first Fear 2000: 21st Century Horror conference (2016) in a paper entitled ‘Not Like How Hollywood Shows Us’: Reintegrating Hardcore Horror into 21st Century U.S. Horror Discourse’ by Dr. James Aston (University of Hull). 'A Malignant, Seething Hatework': An Introduction to U.S. 21st Century Hardcore Horror by James Aston via Senses of Cinema. Dr. Aston recently interviewed Ryan for his book Hardcore Horror in the 21st Century: Production, Marketing and Consumption.
-Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California, discusses the budget of Amateur Porn Star Killer and the difference between 'low budget' and 'micro-budget', in regards to indie horror.
Reviews
"In a world of reality TV and home video on the Net, Amateur Porn Star Killer is sobering, believable and more timely than ever." -MTV
"Brutal, unflinching, and bombastically explicit...deep-impact outrage from maverick-with-a-movie-camera Shane Ryan" -Mr. Skin
"very realistic and utterly unforgettable...damn disturbing to watch" -Film Threat
"In terms of sickness and human depravity, it ranks up there with Cannibal Holocaust." -Horror Year Book
"Shane Ryan's got something unique here, and he's definitely a sick fuck to watch out for, which I say with true appreciation." -Creature Corner
"The performances are of paramount importance in films of this nature. Ryan and Jimenez pull them off extremely well." -Sex Gore Mutants
"Ryan's film is a frightening and engrossing piece of filmmaking, and I loved it." -Cinema Crazed
"It takes balls to make a movie like this." -Cinesploitation
"Shane Ryan does a superb job recreating the look of a low grade snuff type film" -10K bullets
"This little indie is so close to being a masterpiece that even though it repulses me I have to praise it." -Polly Staffle
"This film is an extremely dark, depressing, sleazy and disturbing work that will leave a lasting impression on you that you won't soon forget no matter how much you want to." -Gorehounds Unite!
"a very creative and unique experience" -Killer Reviews
"Purchase Amateur Porn Star Killer, it's worth the permanent psychological damage you will receive." -The Flesh Farm
"Mixing borderline XXX gratuity with a pseudo-realistic recreation of your typical pedophile/victim playdate, the results are horrific, sickening, sad, uncompromising." -DVD Talk
"Simple but sick...Definitely worth watching." -Evil Dread
"Amateur Porn Star Killer is an intelligent and brave take on the snuff film sub-genre of cinema." -Film Fanaddict!
"Perfectly creates a snuff film and perfectly depicts the human interaction, the depravity and humiliation, that would accompany such a thing." -B Scared
"Shane Ryan has done a very good job in creating a film that makes you question your definition of erotica and one that will leave you unable to view 'amateur' adult material in the same way ever again." -Dumb Distraction
"a powerful film, a dark new wave experiment that hits the mark aimed for. Shane Ryan, with luck, will be voice ringing out to be heard again and again."
-Entertainment Insiders
"Amateur Porn Star Killer stays away from the camp and the blood and goes for where it really counts; the acting and the terribly disturbing subject matter."
-Pretty Scary
"The acting is top notch and very believable" -Arrow in the Head
"I take my hate off to Shane for having the balls (if no budget whatsoever) to go out there and make such a movie." -Horror Society
"I never thought I would be bitch slapped by a commentary filled film laced with smut and dynamic performances shot on a hand held digital budget."
-Bloodtype Online
"Ryan has taken a short running time and simple plot and effectively turned it into something not to leave you for quite some time." -Pop Syndicate
-2006 Action On Film International Film Festival (Long Beach, CA)
-2007 Theatrical Release, Laemmle Theatres (Los Angeles, CA)
-2008 The X Fest (South Africa)
-2014 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Switzerland) Shane Ryan retrospective series
-2015 Sadique-Master Festival (Paris, France)
Interviews/Features
-Shane Ryan speaks with Musique [Machine], Film School Rejects, Mr. Skin, Sex Gore Mutants, Film Threat (Part 1, 2), Creative Future
-Michiko Jimenez via Film Threat
-Articles; Excess Hollywood, Word & Film, AMC TV, Cultura Colectiva, AVN, Bloody-Disgusting, Bright Lights Film, Horror Society, SL City Weekly, The Movie Sleuth, and mentioned in the reviews for 2020's Choke Horror Society, Rue Morgue, Flickering Myth, The Rotting Zombie, iHorror, The Movie Sleuth, El Horror
-Featured in the books Äkta skräck, The New Flesh: 21st Century Horror Vol. 1, Shattered Innocence, Lost and Found, Earogenous Zones: Sound, Sexuality and Cinema, Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage, The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America, Les dossiers Sadique-master Dissection du cinéma underground extrême, Killing for Culture: From Edison to ISIS: A New History of Death on Film, New Blood: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror, 31 Days of Terror and VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties.
-Film Studies; The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie, a 2012 Academic Conference and Film Event presented by Bournemouth University (UK) in a panel entitled ‘Snuff and the Body: Self, Performance and Affect’ from a paper by Dr. Steve Jones. Jones also discusses the series in his book, Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw, and dives into the mind of its serial killer, Brandon, with great depth and insight in the book Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media.
-Sheffield Hallam University's very first Fear 2000: 21st Century Horror conference (2016) in a paper entitled ‘Not Like How Hollywood Shows Us’: Reintegrating Hardcore Horror into 21st Century U.S. Horror Discourse’ by Dr. James Aston (University of Hull). 'A Malignant, Seething Hatework': An Introduction to U.S. 21st Century Hardcore Horror by James Aston via Senses of Cinema. Dr. Aston recently interviewed Ryan for his book Hardcore Horror in the 21st Century: Production, Marketing and Consumption.
-Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California, discusses the budget of Amateur Porn Star Killer and the difference between 'low budget' and 'micro-budget', in regards to indie horror.
Reviews
"In a world of reality TV and home video on the Net, Amateur Porn Star Killer is sobering, believable and more timely than ever." -MTV
"Brutal, unflinching, and bombastically explicit...deep-impact outrage from maverick-with-a-movie-camera Shane Ryan" -Mr. Skin
"very realistic and utterly unforgettable...damn disturbing to watch" -Film Threat
"In terms of sickness and human depravity, it ranks up there with Cannibal Holocaust." -Horror Year Book
"Shane Ryan's got something unique here, and he's definitely a sick fuck to watch out for, which I say with true appreciation." -Creature Corner
"The performances are of paramount importance in films of this nature. Ryan and Jimenez pull them off extremely well." -Sex Gore Mutants
"Ryan's film is a frightening and engrossing piece of filmmaking, and I loved it." -Cinema Crazed
"It takes balls to make a movie like this." -Cinesploitation
"Shane Ryan does a superb job recreating the look of a low grade snuff type film" -10K bullets
"This little indie is so close to being a masterpiece that even though it repulses me I have to praise it." -Polly Staffle
"This film is an extremely dark, depressing, sleazy and disturbing work that will leave a lasting impression on you that you won't soon forget no matter how much you want to." -Gorehounds Unite!
"a very creative and unique experience" -Killer Reviews
"Purchase Amateur Porn Star Killer, it's worth the permanent psychological damage you will receive." -The Flesh Farm
"Mixing borderline XXX gratuity with a pseudo-realistic recreation of your typical pedophile/victim playdate, the results are horrific, sickening, sad, uncompromising." -DVD Talk
"Simple but sick...Definitely worth watching." -Evil Dread
"Amateur Porn Star Killer is an intelligent and brave take on the snuff film sub-genre of cinema." -Film Fanaddict!
"Perfectly creates a snuff film and perfectly depicts the human interaction, the depravity and humiliation, that would accompany such a thing." -B Scared
"Shane Ryan has done a very good job in creating a film that makes you question your definition of erotica and one that will leave you unable to view 'amateur' adult material in the same way ever again." -Dumb Distraction
"a powerful film, a dark new wave experiment that hits the mark aimed for. Shane Ryan, with luck, will be voice ringing out to be heard again and again."
-Entertainment Insiders
"Amateur Porn Star Killer stays away from the camp and the blood and goes for where it really counts; the acting and the terribly disturbing subject matter."
-Pretty Scary
"The acting is top notch and very believable" -Arrow in the Head
"I take my hate off to Shane for having the balls (if no budget whatsoever) to go out there and make such a movie." -Horror Society
"I never thought I would be bitch slapped by a commentary filled film laced with smut and dynamic performances shot on a hand held digital budget."
-Bloodtype Online
"Ryan has taken a short running time and simple plot and effectively turned it into something not to leave you for quite some time." -Pop Syndicate
