| | The Shrubbery -- Movie Review -- 8mm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Though it doesn't present a snuff film (a movie which documents a person's murder for real, usually during or after some form of sexual act) as explicitly as the cult classic Mute Witness and violence as shockingly as, say, Natural Born Killers, 8 MM stays in your head long after you see it. |
 | | Nicolas Cage, after a couple ho-hum movies, returns to material which allows him to utilize his strong acting abilities. |
 | | As Tom Welles, a private detective and caring family man to a wife and newly-born daughter, Cage skillfully and convincingly portrays a decent man whose unwavering energy slowly transforms into obssession and violence as he is pulled into a nightmarish world of underground pornographers and brutal sexual deviants. |
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