Review: 8mm and 8mm 2

Yes, movies about snuff flicks. There are several and I've tried to review as many as I can since such reviews have faired well on here in terms of hits. I did two yesterday, Hardcore and Cheap, earlier a documentary on the subject , and of course A Serbian Film. I would do The Last House on Dead End St, but it's become harder to find and very expensive if you did. There is also 8mm from 1999 strange Nicholas Cage. The fictional films (less so the documentary) are based on not only the premise that somewhere someone makes films of people being killed for money, but that this snuff film industry is connected to the regular porn industry. I suspect if snuff films exist, they may not have any strong connection to the regular porn industry. I think it would be a totally separate thing if it existed. Child pornography has no real connection to the regular adult film industry, for example. 8mm is alright. Nicholas Cage is a PI that's hired by a wealthy woman to determine whether or not a snuff film found in her late husband's possessions is authentic. He is able to find the trail of the murdered girl in the film through the regular porn industry. I found it sort of entertaining an humorous that in this film there are hardcore sickos connected to the S&M scene as opposed to bored looking people at a club with some goth music playing. There is very little to say about this film, which is halfway decent but not amazing. Anything about snuff films you post on-line will get a whole mess of hits from perverts looking for the real thing, which is, of course, the only reason this review exists. Nicholas Cage doesn't make into 8mm 2 which follow a different storyline entirely. It is a straight-to video film that has very little to do the original with 8mm, and feels a little like a soft porn film. It takes place in Hungary. This couple from the United States has a three way with a woman they meet in Hungary in part. The chick in the couple is the daughter of the ambassador, and the husband has political ambitions. The plot revolves around the couple being blackmailed with photos of the three ways. It becomes akin in so far as the plot requires the couple to explore the underground world of prostitution and pornography. It alludes to the whole real doll thing, the Russian mob is in it. For a straight-to-video type film with a lot of tasteful full frontal nudity and a film noir plot line to connect the full frontal nudity, 8mm 2 goes on for about 15-20 minutes longer than it should. There's a fairly good little trick ending to it, whether or not the trick ending really holds water I'm not really sure, but it's worth a chuckle. 8mm film is not referenced in the film at all.