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8MM
Directed by Joel Schumacher
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. From TMDB
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8MM is a 1999 thriller crime mystery film, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix and James Gandolfini.
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60 of 179 · most liked firstWhen I was a kid, I constantly daydreamed about doing animation, and I was bitterly envious of kids on TV doing rubbish animations with 8mm film cameras. And now it's so easy and cheap for young people to have a go. Not everyone has a smartphone or a laptop, but it's SO much more accessible now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie recommendation for tonight, Sinister The main spookum resembles a member of a Norwegian Black Metal band, so I didn't quite know what to expect, but Sinister was surprised me because it reminded me of the Nic Cage thriller 8mm, and sees Ethan Hawk finding a bunch of snuff movies in his attic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Advertisement for a Canon Double 8 movie Camera #filmmaker #8mm #canon
neutral · AI labelView post →Good evening from Holland, MI. We spent the day visiting with Mom. Really enjoyed watching an old home movie (8mm converted to VHS) from when she was a little girl back in the 40’s.
neutral · AI labelView post →written by @aliciahaddick.com with a foreword by Gaspar Noé, this is the most comprehensive look at Tsukamoto's career to date. All the way from his earliest teenage experiments with 8mm film up to his most recent, Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
neutral · AI labelView post →Holy snokes... With all these 8mm student films I've been digitizing, I just found a stop-motion Star Wars film from the fall of 1977 that is AMAZING. I'll upload it ASAP. You all want to see this.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a kid, sometimes there was movie night where dad would get the projector out and we would watch our 8mm films. The reels were never labeled well and the worst films were taken by my dad through his cockpit windscreen (he was an Air Force pilot). In vexation we kids would yell, "clouds!"
neutral · AI labelView post →In the '90s Sony bought a script from Seven screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. They spent millions to make this dark descent into the seedy underbelly of cinema, then tried to tone the whole thing down. Join me as we break down 8MM on today's episode of Grindhouse Gospel!
neutral · AI labelView post →Q1: #HorrorWritersChat Philosophically and physically, I am still AC Cross. I write cosmic and body and gross and bleak and even non-horror horror sometimes. Elevator pitch for His Chariot? Picture the movie 8mm and its grimy, greasy feel and combine it with sickly, dying Lovecraftian influence.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW on PinkLabel.TV... The Art of the Loop @anniesprinkle.bsky.social An exploration of archival 8mm adult film "loops" from the 1950's - 1980's. Co-Directed by Annie Sprinkle and Dr. Jeff Fletcher, edited by the late Carol Leigh (AKA The Scarlot Harlot). 🎥 Streaming: pinklabel.tv/on-demand/fi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow and through the rest of the month, I'll be posting at least one horror film or 8mm horror reel on my youtube to countdown to Halloween. I'll post them up here as well! It culminates with the digitization of my personal print of Phantom of the Opera (1925) on Halloween.
neutral · AI labelView post →I miss black and white movies the use of shadow, the way light works damn I have a super 8mm film...I should get B&W film for it... #HorrorWatch
neutral · AI labelView post →Family movie night on 8mm. First up is Buster Keaton’s Cops.
neutral · AI labelView post →Your #1 source for classic erotica from 8mm film! Always transferred and restored from original films in High Definition! Experience us now: www.ultraflesharchives.com
neutral · AI labelView post →My 8MM inspired film idea about Legend of the Overfiend continues to grow.
neutral · AI labelView post →Civil rights activists from Selma joining an antiwar demonstration in Berkeley in October 1965. Frame from an 8mm home movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “between my legs” to a movie title "8mm Between My Legs"
neutral · AI labelView post →Director Maiken Baird and producer Sarah Mowaswes spent a year sifting through 8mm reels and lost interviews to bring the Palestinian scholar’s voice back to the screen. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Night - #Disney #movie #Short #Film #super8 I've slowly been collecting films on various formats from 8mm, Super8 and also 16mm. These formats are super fun, because its an experience getting them setup. And... Ya kinda HAVE to watch em all the way, once ya start. Here is a "short" of Bambi.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who knows something about this movie camera by Sankyo? Was it ever built? #sankyo #single-8 #8mm #super8 #japan
neutral · AI labelView post →I still have 1 full of my early genealogy research in my file cabinet and 1 tall container of cd's ... Then there's 8 tracks, vcr tapes, 70s cassette tapes Reel-to-reel, an 8mm camera/film with a 50s projector along with my grandparents home movies I'm 69, the family keeper of memories & "stuff"
neutral · AI labelView post →also this 1961 kodak brownie "fun saver" 8mm movie camera. sadly im missing the film door that is basically the whole other side of the thing. but you wont see it.
neutral · AI labelView post →A man using a riding lawnmower to pull a girl around a yard in a small wagon. From an 8mm home movie reel labeled "Iowa Vacation 1961" shot by Donna Adams.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I was gonna return that" The filmmakers for The Blair Witch Project returned the 8mm camera that they filmed half of the movie on. #MysteryWrestling17 🤼♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →This might interest @williamcarruthers.bsky.social as it's believed this 8mm film includes footage of the Abu Simbel statues being removed during construction of the Aswan High Dam. I wanted to run the reel through my Bell & Howell projector but, being prudent, am getting the film digitised first
neutral · AI labelView post →Spooky movie season is over, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to continue posting silent films and 8mm oddities everyday. This month culminates in the Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Marie Dressler film Tillie's Punctured Romance, the first feature comedy, on Thanksgiving - digitized from my 8mm print.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been digitizing my 8mm film collection and posting it on Youtube (what Youtube will allow me to, anyway). Here's my silent film playlist. This morning I posted Charlie Chaplin's Keystone short "His Musical Career" youtube.com/playlist?lis...
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s pretty much the premise of my 8MM type film which involves a dude getting his hands on that one particular anime and slowly goes insane/obsessed over it. The kicker is that it’s set in the late 80s/early 90s where the medium was still a very niche hobby.
neutral · AI labelView post →8mm movie cameras.
neutral · AI labelView post →⛧⸸ New trailer for PSYCHO KILLER: The directorial debut from Gavin Palone, with a Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker (SE7EN, 8MM) ⸸ A serial killer dubbed the 'SATANIC SLASHER' has a state terrified of his M.O. and a traumatised cop hunting him. 𓃵⛧ #FilmSky #HorrorSky #Se7en youtu.be/KTmPOm9APjk?...
neutral · AI labelView post →And it really reinvigorated interest in silent film since those films were perfect for the format. Silent films are why I started collecting 8mm films and I just love them. Here's a playlist of all those I've digitized that Youtube isn't killing. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
neutral · AI labelView post →And for €29095 you can have a film scanner for 35mm, 16mm and 8mm footage
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Halloween! Watch some spooky movies today! Start with a silent film. I posted my transfer of my personal 8mm print of Phantom of the Opera for you to start with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's silent film from my 8mm collection was Harold Lloyd's 1919 film Ring Up the Curtain, which was an early film of his, near the end of his work for Rolin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UN...
neutral · AI labelView post →Copied an old home movie tape (dads, all 8mm) no audio but sappy 70s music throughout surprised by this at the end
neutral · AI labelView post →When I saw "Jaws" as a kid, my brother and I filmed fake "shark attacks" with our 8mm camera in the canal behind our house. When I saw "Superman" I felt like I could fly. This movie kept me up the entire night after I got home. I was too scared to sleep.
neutral · AI labelView post →it’s a super 8/8mm film viewer/editor and a little mixer
neutral · AI labelView post →Julian Cope ~ Laughing Boy (from Fried, 1984) #NowPlaying #JulianCope #MusicSky A fantastic 8mm movie for the trippy Laughing Boy from his Fried album, with Julian at his giant tortoise best. Happy Witching Hour🌠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqt...
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a teen in the '50s we water skied & I learned the hard way there is a spot between the wakes where your skis sink. But, Wake Surfing wasn't even a thing back then. And, the only pix left are these blurred frames from a long-gone 8mm movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Lots of 8mm home movie documentary content in those days. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Halloween 1939 youtu.be/H_mstZ65Hz0 'An 8mm home movie of a Halloween party in Chicago in 1939.'
neutral · AI labelView post →And another found 8mm short film (you HAVE to watch this) of a 1977 version of War of the Worlds from a kid named Mark Ritch. youtu.be/_tMXR-pwCrw
neutral · AI labelView post →Trapped on a roll of 8mm film. You can talk and respond as long as you're being projected, as long as someone keeps reloading it every 15 minutes.
neutral · AI labelView post →8mm film of QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Stolen Earth" but it's a Super 8mm film print... #DoctorWho
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Freddy Got Fingered with my dad and stepmom on opening weekend. 😳 That might be the most embarrassing family movie experience of my life. No, wait - my dad and I watched Schumacher's 8mm. 🫣
negative · AI labelView post →And then look at what his 12th movie was: BATMAN & ROBIN. I'll defend it as fun in places, but it's not got a great rep. And 8mm comes right after it. Quentin might be onto something.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title "8mm" between my legs
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait... Is this for the 8mm Guy's slop movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →I found an 8mm short film in a box of films I picked up second hand. I cut it together and uploaded it because it’s rad. Any help identifying time and place and contacting the makers would be greatly appreciated! youtu.be/0KS3xfUHEX0
neutral · AI labelView post →Old 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, VHS, Mini-DV, or digital family films will be "inspected, repaired, and screened for an audience."
neutral · AI labelView post →one of those deals were there's no reason they couldn't exist, and every individual element around death on film had happened, just not in the right order, like it didn't count if it wasn't exactly like 8mm. I think just recently we got to "videos of murders made for the purpose of selling on the
neutral · AI labelView post →It was a big part of my childhood, too. In fact, my brother and his friends made an 8mm Star Trek movie of their own. My brother was Spock (complete with the ears) - he even looked like him. My 7 year old self was cast as an alien extra.
neutral · AI labelView post →Found at a local thrift store... An actual 8mm household film editor!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sunday evening movie will be on 8mm
neutral · AI labelView post →BotNS exists (in my head) in that 1980-1995 pre-internet, 8MM, stop motion, claymation, tricks and traps special effects, cassette tape quality, Excalibur (the movie) blood and guts and rampant nudity era of mainstream-for-the-sickos VHS sphere of media that I will never let go of.
neutral · AI labelView post →And we have an 8mm reel sold to promote Disneyland. "Attraction Highlights #1" was produced by Disney and is a silent look at the Jungle Cruise, the Haunted Mansion, and more. youtu.be/PWmbCx4QsMg
neutral · AI labelView post →A kind and generous man who I met when I was in 9th grade who visited my friend's house after being invited to where we were making an 8mm Star Trek fan movie. Walter was so kind and he took the time to just chat with us was so unexpected! It was a memorable experience! Rest In Power, Mr. Chekov.💙🇺🇲💙
neutral · AI labelView post →I used to show 8mm monster movies in the window of my house on Halloween, and I remember one little kid just staring slack-jawed at the movie projector, and asking "What *is* that?"
neutral · AI labelView post →He IS the old man from the movie, "8mm". He gets off on this shit.
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