Synopsis for
8MM (1999) More at IMDbPro »

Comments by Actor / Writer Roy C. Peterson

This is a very good movie about a very bad subject, snuff porn. Definition: Snuff Porn is documentary movie where a person slowly tortures or mutilates to death an actual living victim with the cameras rolling.

People who make snuff porn movies are among the most evil on earth. In 8 MM there is a very consciousness-raising scene depicting a conversation with a hooded snuff porn murderer who states that he was never abused as a child, that he fully understands that what he does is evil and wrong, but that he enjoys it and so simply does it anyway. So much for psychology. Yes, Evil exists.

In this Nicolas Cage really delivers with as fine a piece of acting as I have ever seen anyone do. I totally identified with his character Tom Welles and when Tom finally got mad enough to start killing the bad guys it brought a tear to my eye. What can I say? Please see this movie. We owe it to our fellow humans to at least be aware that this level of evil exists.

All this, of course, poses a question. Who buys snuff porn films and why? The same type, perhaps, who gather like flies around a traffic accident eyeballing the victims until the police finally shoo them away.