Movie
1999
8mm is a 1999 crime thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. A German–American co-production, the film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films. Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, and Anthony Heald appear in supporting roles.
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Source There is a very specific category of late 90s crime movies that people have just stopped talking about, not because they were bad but because they were so uncomfortable to sit with that nobody really wants to bring them up at the table and 8MM falls right into the middle of that group with the kind of confidence that makes you feel slightly ashamed for enjoying it, did it? its not a slasher even though it loo…More
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8MM is not a film for all tastes. In retrospect, probably not for my taste either, but it was a riveting watch. It’s also one of the old ones which made it a suitable watch for me in this journey of watching old cinema. It was released in the US and Germany in 1999 and stars Nicolas Cage. source It is a neo-noir film that takes you into a pornographic world of wicked men who take advantage of young women. I’d never…More
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In her husband's safe, a multi-millionaire widow finds an 8mm film in which a young girl appears to have been raped and murdered most brutally. So she and her attorney employ private detective Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) to look at the film's authenticity and decide whether it might be an actual snuff movie or not, or whether it's a fake murder. Welles tells her that the movie must be manufactured, saying that snuff m…More
