8MM 2 (2005) (V)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

J.S. Cardone

Writers:

Robert Sullivan (screenplay)
Dylan Tarason (story)

Release Date:

22 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

From The Last Kiss To The Last Breath...

Plot:

An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute.

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Hungary | Diplomat | Prostitute | Red Light District

Cast

Johnathon Schaech	...	David
Lori Heuring	...	Tish
Bruce Davison	...	Ambassador Harrington
Julie Benz	...	Lynn
Valentine Pelka	...	Gorman Bellec
Zita Görög	...	Risa
Robert Cavanah	...	Richard
Alex Scarlis	...	Perry (as Alexander Scarlis)
Jane How	...	Mrs. Harrington
Barna Illyés	...	Detective Kovach
F.J. Flynn	...	Vernon
Andrew Fettes	...	Mick
Ferenc Kovács	...	Gábor
Géza Schramek	...	Josef Klim
George Mendel	...	Mr. Szamos (as Gyorgy Mendel)

Also Known As:

The Velvet Side of Hell (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and drug use.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:R | USA:R | Argentina:16 | UK:18 | Germany:16 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) (also unrated version) | Canada:18A (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) (rated version) | Canada:R (British Columbia) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) (unrated version) | Canada:R (Ontario) (also unrated version) | USA:Unrated | Iceland:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Brazil:18 (DVD rating) | Singapore:(Banned) (video rating) | Netherlands:16 | Hungary:18

Filming Locations:

Budapest, Hungary

Company:

Screen Gems

Quotes:

Lynn: So what's going on?
Tish: What do you mean?
Lynn: I mean you both look like death warmed over.
[Tish laughs]
Lynn: And there's something wrong, isn't there?
Tish: There's nothing wrong, Lynn.

Movie Connections:

References Beat the Devil (2003) (V)

Slow moving

B-movie darling Johnathan Schaech stars in 8MM 2, which has absolutely nothing to do with the nasty Nic Cage horror film. Someone simply bought the rights to the title. Schaech and his fiancée (Lori Huering) are secretly filmed having sex with a prostitute in a Budapest hotel room, and subsequently blackmailed. They try to uncover the blackmailer before images from the film are put on the Internet for all to see. The problem is that Schaech's fiancée is the daughter of a very important and wealthy man (Bruce Davison, in what amounts to little more than a cameo). Obviously shot on the cheap in Hungary, the film goes nowhere. The sex scene featuring the threesome, which might have made the movie worthwhile, is not particularly titillating. I can see better on an episode of NIP/TUCK. And the ending has a twist any astute viewer will have figured out 10 minutes into the movie.