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[[Private Detective]] Tom Welles ([[Nicolas Cage]]) is hired by wealthy widow Mrs. Christian, who has discovered a reel of 8mm film in her late husband's safe that depicts what appears to be the brutal murder of a teenage girl by a hulking man in a mask. Mrs. Christian wants Welles to find out whether the incident in the film is real.

 

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* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: Eddie Poole.

* [[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.

* [[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.