quite recently i watch a marvelous documentary on australian exploitation cinema entitle not quite hollywood represent the true and untold story of ozploitation which i highly recommend to anyone and it really stimulate me to track down a lot of title i have never even hear about before . snapshot be one of them while a peculiar psycho thriller or melodrama hybrid that coincidentally come out shortly after the huge box office success of halloween and thus have to be re title the day after halloween in order to make extra money and cash in on the success of john carpenter classic . obviously this movie have absolutely nothing to do with halloween and michael myers or haddonfield and hopefully not too many people will be beguile by this cheap marketing scam . i be not even too sure snapshot fully qualify a horror and since the film barely feature any genuine moment of fright . despite the still relatively low number of independent cult movie produce in australia around that time and snapshot be an adequate and professional accomplishment with proper production value and respectable performance and ambitious story content . heck and the film be so ambitious that the drama overrules and the thriller elements never really even come through . snapshot be much more of a satiric portrait of the sleazy and dishonest advertising or model industry than it be a nail biting suspense thriller . director simon wincer ( harlequin and harley davidson and the marlboro man ) seemingly never cease to enlarge the melodramatic universe surround the main character angela and but actually there very few action . 19 year old angela be lurid into shoot a topless model ad by an eloquent and she promptly get offer a job a the face of a perfume brand . angela be very enthusiast and move in with her photographer and especially since she tire of her domineering mother and dead end job at the hair dresser salon . she rapidly adapt to her new classy life and doesn not even have to bother anymore about her stalking ex boyfriend and his ( not so ) inconspicuous ice cream van . however and she learn this be predominantly a rotten world full of greed and betrayal and false promise and sexual harassment and blackmail and danger . a say and snapshot be a plain straightforward come of age drama falsely advertise a a genuine horror movie . there be two noteworthy sequence near the very end and but they hardly seem worth wait for . this could be an interesting and compelling viewing experience and but then you better know beforehand to expect a serious tone film instead of a brainless slasher imitation .