Is the 1986 Challenger explosion footage considered a snuff film, since we know that real people are going to die at the end of it?
I figure that the answer is no because the people who die in the film did not expect to die; that is to say that their purpose of taking part in the flight was not to be blown to smithereens while being filmed.
Snuff films are films made where people are purposefully murdered for the sake of the film. There are plenty of accidental deaths caught on tape; these are not snuff films because the videographer did not set out to murder someone for his movie.
Of course, snuff films don’t exist.
I always thought a snuff film featured a rape prior to the murder. Unless something weird was going on in the crew compartment just before the accident, that would pretty much rule out the Challenger accident. But hey, I wouldn’t put it past NASA to stage it as part of some sick conspiracy. Look what they did with the “moon landings”