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His masked persona, "The Machine," was taken directly from the Nicolas Cage movie 8MM, in which the character was a masked sadist in snuff films.
One of his first special FX roles was as make up artist for Joe D'Amato, whose film Emanuelle in America required detailed special FX for the notorious snuff film sequences.
In the messages, Jovanovic mentioned Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs of corpses, and Rzucek expressed her interest in snuff films.
After her friend is viciously murdered in a snuff photo shoot, the two of them track down the people responsible, and in the process, become lovers, and uncover an underworld of depravity, ending in a violent showdown in Mardi Gras.