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A direct-to-video "sequel" called ''[[Title By Number|8mm 2]]''. [[In Name Only|It has no connection]] [[They Just Didn't Care|whatsoever to the original]].

 

* {{spoiler|[[Amoral Attorney]]: Daniel Longdale}}.

* [[Ax Crazy]] [[Knife Nut]]: Machine, the man who commited the murder on the 8mm tape. Wears a BDSM mask and likes to murder people with a long knife.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Max California.

* [[Defensive Failure]]: Welles has one of the men involved in the making of the snuff film tied to a support bar in the building where the film was made. He has his gun trained on the man's head...but can't bring himself to fire, even as the man taunts him (to the point of ''licking the gun''). Welles then steps outside, {{spoiler|calls the mother of the snuff film's victim, and begs for permission to kill the man. He gets it. Five seconds later he pistol-whips him to death}}.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Dino Velvet.

* [[Film Noir]]: Of the neo-noir type.

** Dino Velvet: [[The Big Bad]].

** Machine: [[The Dragon]].

{{quote| '''Machine''': "Mommy didn't beat me. Daddy didn't rape me. I'm this way ''because I am''."}}

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: We never see the murder being committed on the 8mm reel, just Welles' reaction to it.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Lampshaded by Max, who notices that Welles isn't as grossed out by what he's seeing as he used to be.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Machine at the end gets killed by Welles with his own knife}}.

* [[Impersonating an Officer]]: Welles poses as a government investigator to interview the girl's mother. As he's working for a highly paying client, I guess he thinks it's worth the risk. Toward the end of the movie, he claims to be a police officer when ringing around the hospitals {{spoiler|looking for the man he stabbed}}, but by that stage Welles is so personally involved in the case that he doesn't care about the legality.

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: His pistol having been confiscated, Welles stabs a villain with the pistol's cleaning rod.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Machine usually uses a sharp long knife to kill his victims. At the climax Welles kills him with the same weapon}}.

* [[Large Ham]]: [[Peter Stormare]] as Dino Velvet. Seems like he had a lot fun playing him.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Machine, arguably.

* [[Sidekick]]: Porn store employee Max California takes on this role. Welles even invites Max to join him as a partner.

* [[Smug Snake]]: {{spoiler|Daniel Longdale.}}

* [[Snuff Film]]: Welles can find no proof that snuff films are anything other than an [[Urban Legend]]. {{spoiler|It turned out that Mr Christian discovered this, too, so he hired Velvet to create one.}}