8mm 2 - hell made of velvet

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Movie
German title 8mm 2 - hell made of velvet
Original title 8MM 2
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director JS Cardone
script Robert Sullivan
Dylan Tarason
production Scott binder
Carol Kottenbrook
music Tim Jones
camera Darko Suvak
cut Elena Maganini
occupation
synchronization

8mm 2 - Hell of Velvet (Original Title: 8MM 2 ) is an American film directed by JS Cardone from 2005.

According to the film's title, the film is a sequel to the thriller 8mm - Eight Millimeters , which appeared in 1999 with Nicolas Cage in the lead role, but has no similarities in terms of content or cast.

action

Tish Harrington and her fiancé David Huxley are on vacation in Budapest . Tish is the daughter of the US Ambassador to Hungary and David is her father's legal advisor. The ambassador is not very enthusiastic about his daughter's relationship with David.

One evening Tish met the hot-blooded Hungarian Risa on the dance floor of a discotheque, who had already seen the two of them swimming nude in the hotel pool. She is the only other guest in the otherwise empty hotel. The young couple is given drugs from her. The mood becomes more lively and the evening ends with the three of them in the young couple's hotel room in the exclusive Hotel Alhambra on the outskirts of Budapest. What the two Americans do not know: their love play together is recorded by a hidden camera.

After a while, an envelope with photos from that night is leaked to David. The two have fallen into the clutches of a blackmailer who demands $ 200,000 for the negatives of the pictures. David Huxley is ready to enter the business as a young aspiring attorney with high political ambitions who sees his career in jeopardy. Tish supports him in his endeavor, as she fears not only her own humiliation, but also the associated end of her father's career if the material is published. For this reason, the two do not turn on the police, but David uses all of his savings to pay the claim.

The meeting with the blackmailer, Josef Klim, the manager of the Hotel Alhambra, fails in its entirety. He escapes with the briefcase in which the money is, without giving the couple the pictures. During an exchange of fire between the two men, Klim drops the briefcase and escapes.

Tish and David continue to investigate on their own. In Klim's apartment they find him covered in blood with bullets in his chest. Since David had previously inquired about the corpse at the company that Klim last employed, David and Tish are targeted by Detective Kovač, who was investigating the murder.

The two continue to try to solve the problem themselves. The only way the young couple can find the blackmailer now is to find the mysterious Hungarian Risa. David approaches an owner of a porn video shop who still owes him something. He gives them tips on where to look, which is why the two of them go to the red light district of Budapest. You follow the clues and the trail leads to Gorman Bellec, a strip club owner who works for the Russian Mafia. However, when David cannot get the necessary information, they decide that Tish is posing as a dancer who wants to work for Bellec and David is her manager. You can come in, but Tish can't find out too much about Risa. Fortunately, David was able to find out the address of the Risa he was looking for from a prostitute in the meantime.

You go there and break open the apartment door. However, they find Risa in their apartment strangled in the bathtub, which is filled to the brim with water.

Tish and David believe the extortion is over until they receive a call from a man asking for $ 1 million in exchange for the pictures. Again they go into the business, but this time they turn to the local detective Kovač. Tish takes the money from her trust fund. Your cash delivery meeting is scheduled to take place at an old warehouse.

David gives Tish his gun and leaves it in the car as he enters the warehouse. As soon as David has disappeared, Kovač appears at the window of the car and also enters the warehouse. Shortly afterwards, Tish hears gunshots from inside the warehouse, runs into the building to rush to her fiancé's aid, and fires a few shots at an all-terrain vehicle that sped out of the warehouse. Kovač is found shot dead by Tish inside the building. She also receives a phone call explaining that David is now in the hands of the blackmailer and that the price of David's life and the pictures have risen to five million US dollars.

Tish goes to the bank to transfer the requested money to the Cayman Islands . Immediately after the successful transfer, the kidnapper informed her that David was tied up in the basement of a building in Budapest with limited oxygen supplies. Tish manages to find David in time and save him. Both are recovering from the incident and it seems that nothing stands in the way of their happiness together.

After a Christmas shopping spree, Tish climbs into a subway and sees that there is a subway car on the neighboring track, in which Risa, Josef Klim, Detective Kovač, Gorman Bellec and the owner of the porn video shop are. To her horror, she has to watch David join in with a smile, and she realizes that everyone involved has cheated her out of a total of six million US dollars.

Production and evaluation

The film was shot in the Hungarian capital Budapest . It celebrated its world premiere on November 22, 2005 in the USA. In Germany, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the film directly on DVD on April 4, 2006 . In Germany the film was shown for the first time on July 12, 2008 by ProSieben , in Austria it was broadcast on October 20, 2009 by ORF Eins .

synchronization

The dubbing was produced at Scalamedia in Munich, based on the dialogue book by Ulrich Johannson and the dubbing direction by Peter Woratz.

role actor speaker
David Johnathon Schaech Florian Halm
Lynn Julie Benz Claudia Lössl
Table Lori Heuring Melanie Manstein
Ambassador Harrington Bruce Davison Leon Rainer
Deedee Francesca Kingdon Shandra Schadt
Detective Kovach Barna Illyés Tobias Lelle
Thóra Lili Bordán Sonja Reichelt
Gábor Ferenc Kovács Ole Pfennig
Gorman Bellec Valentine Pelka Gudo Hoegel
Josef Klim Géza Schramek Ulrich Frank
Keels Judit Viktor Marieke Oeffinger
Long FJ Flynn Thomas Rauscher
Mick Andrew Fettes Marc sting
Mr. Szamos George Mendel Michael Gahr
Mrs. Harrington Jane How Katharina Lopinski
Mrs. Szamos Márta Téli Marion Hartmann
Perry Alex Scarlis Claus-Peter Damitz
Richard Robert Cavanah Claus Brockmeyer
Risa Zita Görög Natascha Geisler

criticism

Carsten Baumgardt von Filmstarts says: “JS Cardone's lame erotic thriller“ 8mm 2 ”has absolutely nothing to do with the hard snuff thriller from 1999. The work was conceived as a direct-to-video production under the title “The Velvet Side Of Hell”, but Sony Pictures decided without further ado to change the title for marketing reasons. […] Robert Sullivan's dialogues are bumpy, the acting is mostly weak and logic has to be looked for with a magnifying glass. [...] The main evil of the film is and remains the tired story. The characters are anything but coherent, the inner logic of the characters plays no role at all. That's just annoying and annoying even direct-to-video productions fans. [...] As a sequel, the work is out of the question, as an independent film it only functions as poor entertainment in a chic production design. "

According to the opinion of the editorial staff of Cinema , the film is an “erotic thriller that carries out undisguised fraudulent labeling” and is therefore a “sham package that doesn't tingle”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 8mm 2 - hell made of velvet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 327 DVD).
  2. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ 8mm 2 - Hell of Velvet in the online film database
  5. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | 8MM 2 - hell made of velvet. Retrieved September 12, 2017 .
  6. ^ Film review , film starts , Carsten Baumgardt
  7. ^ Film review , Cinema