Summary
S&Man is about voyeurism as it relates to underground films. Interviews with horror film directors and Carol J. Clover, a writer on the horror genre, are weaved between clips from horror films. In the beginning of the film, clips show the directors and Clover commenting on a horror film that is not shown onscreen and with the title not mentioned. The film then moves on to Petty's meetings with Eric Rost (Erik Marcisak), Bill Zebub, and Fred Vogel. He interviews these men and actress Debbie D., while clips from horror films and facts and opinions provided by Clover about the genre are interspersed.
The film has a fictional subplot, which questions whether or not Rost's works are actual snuff films. Petty's real life friendship with Marcisak takes a fictional turn in the film; Petty gets close to discovering Rost's secret. At this point, Petty is a performer in his own film, and tension arises between him and Rost. During filming, Petty begins to suspect that Rost's work, in which women are "bound, gagged, tortured, and eventually butchered" shows actual snuff.
As Petty gets further into his investigation, Rost's answers become more evasive. Petty suspects that Eric actually kills women for his snuff films, a suspicion further exacerbated when Rost says that he will relay Petty's contact information to the women instead of giving their contact information to Petty. It is not clear at the film's end whether Rost's films are actual snuff in the fictional subplot's context. However, it is known that he spies on them for a long period of time before asking them to participate.
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