LANGUAGE 10 - About 70 F-words, many anatomical references, lots of scatological references, many mild obscenities and several insults. DISCUSSION TOPICS - Sadomasochism, pornography, torture, murder, private investigations, marriage, revenge. MESSAGE - Sometimes you must take the law into your own hands.

In Hollywood, with the help of an adult video store employee called Max California, Tom penetrates the underworld of illegal pornography. Contact with a sleazy talent scout named Eddie Poole leads them to director Dino Velvet, whose violent pornographic films star a masked man known as "Machine".

So that brings us to the next question: what are the 8mm films worth? It turns out that 8mm film by itself is basically worthless. The film is just made out of cheap plastic. But there is a bit of demand for old home movies.

George Anthony Higgins, better known as Machine, is the secondary antagonist of the 1999 thriller film 8MM. He is a sadistic psychopath who rapes and tortures women and girls in snuff films directed by Dino Velvet, and murders a teenage girl in one of them. He is portrayed by Chris Bauer.