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8MM 2

2005 · 106 min

A sleazy, slow-burning erotic thriller that keeps you uneasy with its murky atmosphere and a cruel final twist.

Directed by: J.S. Cardone
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Lori Heuring, Julie Benz

Tagline: Her sexual appetites could get a man killed.
Overview: Entering a steamy underground world of peep shows, nude clubs, and live Internet sex is David Huxley, an aspiring politician who has everything to lose. Secretly filmed in a steamy three-way with his fiancée Tish and a gorgeous young model, David is desperate to find the extortionist who's demanding an exorbitant amount of money for the negatives. But when the blackmail trail ends in murder and David is kidnapped, Tish must come up with $5 million ransom or her fiancé's once-promising career, and life, may come to a dead end.

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Directed by: J.S. Cardone
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Lori Heuring, Julie Benz

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: betrayal
deception
obsession
corruption
power
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	4
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: thriller, mystery, drama
Directed by: J.S. Cardone
Written by: Robert Sullivan
Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Lori Heuring, Julie Benz, Valentine Pelka, Zita Görög, Robert Cavanah, Alex Scarlis, Jane How
Music: Tim Jones
Cinematography: Darko Šuvak
Runtime: 106 min
Country: Hungary, United States of America
Languages: English, Hungarian

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