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* Back in the 70s, the very first "snuff" film ([[Sarcasm Mode|imaginatively]] entitled ''[http://www.agonybooth.com/snuff/ Snuff]'') purported to depict the actual on-camera murder of an actress. Despite all the controversy that was stirred up—which actually was the entire point—the murder was later revealed to be a hoax, albeit a not-quite convincing one. In fact, the distributors of the movie had actually just bought some random South American B-Movie and grafted on their own, completely different short bit of footage (the "snuff"), replacing the [[No Ending|actual movie's ending]].
** That, coupled by the fact that the snuff footage looked ''unbelievably'' fake. [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Snuff_1976.aspx?Page=9 See for yourself].
* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' does this deliberately and plays it to the hilt. In fact, this is common with the [[Found Footage Films]] genre.
* In a similar vein for the older ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'', the advertising of it as real footage caused so much outrage that its director was arrested and dragged to court - on charges of murder - and once there he had not only to admit it was all a great big lie but show the actors to the judge to prove that they were all alive and well. This was ''further'' complicated because, as part of their contractual agreements, the actors were legally obligated to keep away from the public eye for a full year, in order to help hype the movie. A second deal nullifying the first had to be struck with the studio before the actors were allowed to testify.
* ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' is based on an odd amalgamation of the historical Satsuma rebellion and the part played in the earlier Boshin war by French officer Jules Brunet. The [[Anvilicious]] "guns vs swords" plot is particularly ironic, considering that even the real "last samurai" of the Satsuma rebellion openly embraced modern weaponry for the tactical advantages it offered. The decline of the samurai class in real life came about in a much slower and less dramatic fashion and there were certainly no embittered American Civil War heroes involved.
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* Done in-universe in ''[[The Debt]]'', which drives the plot.
* The majority of the film ''[[JFK]]'' is entirely made up, with the only real events being the assassination and the Clay Shaw trial (which was an affront to justice). Perhaps the worst was that of the crucial 'smoke from the Grassy Knoll', none of the rifles used would emit any visible smoke.
* An example of a film's producers trying to enact the ''[[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]'' Trope ''on purpose'' was the 1976 low-budget exploitation film, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(film) Snuff]]''. The director - one Allan Shackleton - edited a South American slasher movie, giving it an even gorier ending, and then billed it as "The film that could only be made in South America... where life is CHEAP", implying that this was an actual [[Snuff Film]]. Which was false advertising. He went so far as to put out false newspaper clippings that reported a citizens group's crusading against the film and hired people to act as protesters to picket screenings. This didn't have the desired result, because even compared to other grindhouse movies, the film was... bad, and the special effects were so poor that it was easy for most viewers to discern that the killings in the movie were ''not'' real. Shackleton eventually admitted to the hoax, even providing dated pictures of the actress to prove she was alive and well.
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