8mm 2 8mm 2 8mm 2 is a 2005 direct-to-video thriller film directed by J. S. Cardone and starring Johnathon Schaech and Lori Heuring. The film was distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. When the film was in production, it was titled "The Velvet Side of Hell." When Sony picked up the rights to distribute it, it was re-titled "8mm 2". Although this title suggests the film to be a sequel to the 1999 Nicolas Cage film "8mm", the film has no connective elements relating it to the first "8mm" film. The film was shot entirely in Budapest, and the credits contain
Dark Star (film) Jein, and animation was done by Bob Greenberg. Cobb drew the original design for the "Dark Star" ship on a napkin while eating at the International House of Pancakes. The completed film premiered on March 30, 1974 at Filmex, the Los Angeles International Film Exposition, for which Carpenter described the film as ""Waiting for Godot" in outer space." Harris sold the film to Bryanston Pictures, who released it to fifty theatres on January 16, 1975. Following the success of "Alien" and "Halloween", "Dark Star" was re-released June 1979 by the Atlantic Releasing Corporation as "...from the author of 'Alien' &