A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
Nicolas Cage Joaquin Phoenix James Gandolfini Peter Stormare Anthony Heald Chris Bauer Catherine Keener Myra Carter Amy Morton Norman Reedus Jenny Powell Anne Gee Byrd Jack Betts Luis Oropeza Rachel Singer Don Creech Fran Bennett Wilma Bonet Luis Saguar Walter K. Jordan Norm Compton Brian Keith Russell John Robb Devan Brown Doris Brent Robert Amico Kiva Dawson Rachel Wolfe Suzy Nakamura Show All…
Kim Maitland Anthony Milch Joe Divitale Carl D. Ware Tom Nelson John Leveque Willie D. Burton Nerses Gezalyan Becky Sullivan Gary A. Hecker
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I will not hesitate to say that I don't really understand '8MM' except in the broadest terms. 'Se7en' was a hit, so let's get another script the person who wrote that also wrote and make a Hollywood Blockbuster out of it! Everyone wins! What they actually made, as far as I can tell, though, is the world's straightest but most awesome parody of Paul Schrader's 'Hardcore' with Nicholas Cage as George C Scott, as made by someone who was coming down off of the sugar rush of making the world's most delirious Batman films ever and who essentially made another Batman film without Batman but with Batman Villains and also with Joaquin Phoenix as a Boy Wonder sidekick who works…
Hunting for weird underground movies you tend to come across a lot of bizarre porn, stuff you just didn't realize would be someone's fetish at all (like girls stuck in quicksand or crushing snails in stiletto heels, or cosplayers doing CPR). I've occasionally seen some downright disturbing shit, but the worst nightmares this seems to be able to come up with (outside of snuff of course) are like latex and enemas and Peter Stormare. But despite its absurdly prudish grasping for some outré kink hell, this does manage to manufacture some moments of genuine dread and real empathy for its victims, especially in the scenes involving the dead girl's mother. You also get a taste of some early Mega Cage. There might've been a truly, exquisitely ugly version of this material, but Joel Schumacher probably wasn't the guy to handle it. A bad movie I like.
"What did you expect, a monster?"
Joel Schumacher's 8MM got mixed reviews when it was released, but i think it's aged quite well!! Little sentimental & sometimes silly but it's a really solid, sleazy and dark neo-noir thriller, written by Andrew Walker (SE7EN) and shot by the great Robert Elswit. Also the cast is super stacked: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare & Anthony Heald.
Some fine early era Cage Rage, too. The last scene of Gandolfini sucking a gun is so goddamn chilling. The man was a treasure.
Kinda CLASSIC.
A very Nicholas Cage thing. Disturbing, effective, subjective thriller (of course, it's by the writer of Se7en). A dark, graphic view into the underworld of pornography.
Joaquin Phoenix's performance was outstanding and James Gandolfini was good too.
I was surprised after checking the low ratings/reviews, It was very dark and gritty and possibly Schumacher's best work.
I did not have "watch enema porn" on my to-do list for today, but here we are. (It's more a weekend thing for me, honestly).
So rumor has it that Schumacher was sooo drained in disappointment and drowned in frustration after finishing the turd that is Batman and Robin that he was seeking for anything bleak or entirely opposite to the neon vomit that was the 1997 stuff that served as the final nail in the coffin in the awful superhero movies from the 90s (Blade notwithstanding). And so he was given the script for this film and he went full in.
Now, this movie is not as fascinating as that story but its not as awful as many people seems to painted as in here. Sure, it often feels like a discounted version of Seven written by the screenwriter of that movie and instead…
"8MM" is a late 90's neo noir venue from director Joel Schumacher staring Nicholas Cage within the leading role. Cage stars as a private investigator who goes down a long and dark tunnel surrounding the underbelly of the pornography world and its possibly deepest subtyped endeavor that could be possibly established, the disturbing mythos of the "snuff" film. As pornography obviously has its nuanced builds of different drivers of what people are attracted to, the idea of "snuff" extracts the darkest thoughts of human mentality as it centers on themes of death for purposes of arousal. As arousal itself has buildings of animalistic automations within in that can exceed clear rationality in moments of action, one can only guess the…
i love this dumb movie to death but watching it with joel schumacher commentary was a mistake cuz his boring npr-interview monotone droning on & on about the bounty of philosophical meanings revealed by his unintentionally campy se7en ripoff was beyond intolerable.. at 1 point he refers to himself in the company of "john ford, john huston, alfred hitchcock, walt disney, and elia kazan" - not as influences, as peers!! some good nic cage anecdotes - apparently he hates gossip, which schumacher calls "shit du jour"
I somehow missed this when it first came out probably because I was too busy partying to watch a movie and I’m kinda glad that happened because I just don’t think I would have appreciated this then like I do now. What a beautiful fucking mess it is!
I love that this was trashed by critics at the time for being too violent and sleazy because it’s really not bad at all by today’s standards and actually not as violent as many movies would be just a few years later when the torture porn train pulled out of the station. The looks on Nic’s face as he watches the honestly pretty tame snuff film are an absolute treasure of Cageness.…
