One of my all time favorites.

Don't Believe the Hype

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Snapped starts as would be photographer Amy McCanic (Tiffany Amber Knight) is commissioned by a shadowy figure known as Astrum (Joe Costa) to create an exhibition for an art show, Amy is told in no uncertain terms that if she succeeds she will be set for life but if she fails & turns in a crap exhibit her career as a photographer will be over, simple as that. Amy takes inspiration from the current exhibits which depict death, suicide & murder. Amy's day then takes a turn for the worse, she discovers that her no good drug using boyfriend Trevor (co-associate producer Michael Bien) is in another world, they are about to be evicted from their apartment, she gets ripped off by the apartment manager, when Trevor rejoins the land of the living he steals all of Amy's money to buy more drugs & Amy has just had it really. Starting with the fat ugly apartment manager who ripped her off Amy goes on a killing spree as she discovers that the best way to photograph death is to first create it herself! Those around Amy begin to drop like flies as anyone, anywhere at anytime becomes a potential victim but Astrum doesn't care as long as the exhibit is ready but who is Astrum working for & what is they're reasons behind what is happening...This Canandian American co-production was directed by Jeff Prosserman & Julian Van Mil who were also both producers on the thing, personally I found very little to enjoy in Snapped. The script by Steve Abbott has a few problems, first it's incredibly slow & boring which kills it dead in the water. The character's are some of the most unlikable I've ever had the misfortune to watch, most (not all) films need a likable central character that you can relate to, root for & get behind but such a character is sorely lacking in Snapped. I found Amy one of the most annoying & downright unpleasant leading character's in any film I've seen recently, I hated everything about her which made it impossible for me to care about anything happening to her, Trevor was a lowlife thieving junkie, the apartment manager was a fat ugly lowlife thieving pervert & Astrum didn't seem bothered by the fact Amy was murdering people, when you think about it wouldn't those photo's incriminate Amy? Surely even she wasn't that stupid as to hand them over so they could be put on display to the ENTIRE WORLD when they clearly showed murdered people, people who I would imagine would eventually be reported missing or they're remains found somewhere. Listen Amy it's no good having lots of money if your stuck behind bars for the rest of your life, is it? The whole story is a nonsense, it takes itself 100% seriously (big mistake) & there are just so many annoying things about it that I pretty much hated every minute of it. By the way did I mention that the so-called 'twist' ending was crap & again made little sense? I didn't, oh well it is & it doesn't.Directors Prosserman & Van Mil don't do anything other low budget filmmakers haven't, I don't think Snapped looks particularly stylish or original & it looks more like a bland TV film. Forget about any atmosphere or scares as there aren't any. There are a few instances of gore, some guts, some spraying blood, a slit throat, hammer hits to the head & a couple of stabbings although it's far from the goriest film ever.Going straight-to-video technically Snapped is alright considering the budget must have been small to say the least, it's competent I'll give it that. The acting was poor, Amy really annoyed & I just didn't like her one bit & frankly I didn't feel any differently about anyone else either which made it an absolute chore to sit through.Snapped is crap, it has an intriguing central premise although when you think about it logically it makes no sense & falls flat on it's face. It's slow, the character's are awful, the kills are lame & nothing really worked for me, the most entertaining thing about Snapped is that on the IMDb main page for it in the 'Plot Summary' section they list Amy Mechanic (maybe she's Bob the Builder's sister...) instead of Amy McCanic! For masochists & insomniacs only, one to avoid.

Where to start? The initial premise is clever enough-a girl who is hired to make, and kill for, art-but it is all downhill from there. The acting is foul, replete with over exaggerated eye-rolls and wooden monotones (to be fair, the lead actress isn't too bad), the camera work is worthy of Dad patrolling the camcorder for a backyard BBQ and the plot is both indecipherable and utterly predictable at the same time. This would all be fine if Sanpped were punctuated by some measure of camp value which made it one of those movies that are so bad that they're fun to watch. But no luck here-the dialogue is deadly boring, not howlingly bad, the death scenes, clichéd and tame, not farcically bloody and over the top. Even by the standards of low budget horror movies, this is utter dreck.

Aside from two insane reviews posted here that are transparently obvious as the work of someone involved with the movie or a sick prankster, this waste of time has been universally condemned by IMDb users. I can only heap another shovel of manure upon it, as it is possibly the worst thing I've ever sat through. Not bad in a good way either, bad in a very bad way. Total trash, with NO redeeming features.Unfortunately, it was through reading one of the two positive reviews on this board that led me to watch this in the first place. I've since signed up as a member, so I can see the weight of the balance in reviews damns this rubbish rightly to hell. I move that the studio/prank reviews be stricken from the record so that nobody else has to sit through what I just watched on the basis of deranged lies. If you were thinking of whiling away 80mins, even if you have nothing better to do than grind pepper in your eyes, take the pepper option.

The character Amy (could not have been performed any worse by a house plant) is commissioned to do a series of photos for a new exhibit and must show "pathos"; what results is more aptly described as pathetic. Imagine asking your kids aged 8 - 10 to come up with a script and they'll do better than this! There is absolutely no motivation for her to become a serial killer but hey motivation is most assuredly NOT a prerequisite for this flick! This movie is as well scripted and acted as your average porn flick... so basically it's a porn flick without the sex... whose brother/sister/boyfriend/girlfriend made this flick? I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to see this unless they were directly related to the makers or the actors. This is 1 hour 23 minutes and 23 seconds of my life that I will never get back! PURE KA KA !