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This is basically a less developed version of True Detective Season 1

posted 9 years ago by coolfunk2000
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so many similarities between this movie and s1 of True Detective:
- crime, mystery, thriller, neo-noir, Gothic elements
- underground snuff films
- young girls gone missing
- Tom Welles is a less sophisticated, less developed Russ Cohle
- obsessive detective work interferes with Welles' marriage, as it does Hart's
- similarities between the "Yellow King" and "George"

Only difference is that 8mm isn't doing the government cover-up storyline.

[–] Dan_Garten 8 years ago

Yeah.