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About two-thirds in, the movie shifts gears disastrously. Made me want to haul someone into the cutting room for revenge.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a American mockumentary black comedy horror film directed by Scott Glosserman. It stars Nathan Baesel. Behind the Mask may refer to: Contents. 1 Film and television; 2 Literature; 3 Music; 4 Other uses; 5 See also. Film and television[edit]. Behind the Mask ( .
The script's laughs are too widely spaced. Even before the plot takes a third-act turn into the land of kill-by-the-numbers slasher movies, the jokes drip when they should be gushing.
If Scott Glosserman's witty slasher spoof had celebrities, it would probably be a success like Scream or Scary Movie. As an indie, it's more apt to be a cult fave. Either way, it's a must for those who like thrills laced with humor. There is a lot of cleverness at work here, especially when the movie switches from the Blair Witch-style shaky camera to more accomplished and atmospheric low-budget lensing.
The movie is a lot of fun, as well as a prime example of how to pump new life into an old formula. A pure horror film masterpiece, and slasher fans would be best to acknowledge it. A rather funny "Scream"-like cross between a mockumentary and a direct-to-video slasher movie, "Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon" is custom-made for horror fans, but it isn't remotely scary and people that aren't already steeped in the lore of t. Other than displaying a textbook awareness of its ancestors, Behind the Mask offers next to nothing.
Behind the Mask is a brilliant low budget Slasher film that reinvents the wheel and offers genre fans something truly original to watch. Successfully combining traditional genre elements with Black Comedy, this film is a refreshing take on a classic genre of the horror medium. Filmed as a mockumentary, it follows a film crew that is documenting Leslie Vernon, a murderer who plans his revenge for what the town did to him years ago. The mix of comedy and horror work extremely well and complement each other effectively well to create something truly memorable. The cast do a fine job in their performances, and the strength of the film lies in the fact that it can go from being pretty funny to a dark, nasty horror film that delivers the goods.
That's rare for a filmmaker to do such a thing, but Glosserman does it effortlessly. The first act of the film succeeds at establishing the humor and legend and dreams of Leslie Vernon as he wants to join the greats of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers. There are plenty of funny moments to be had in the first thirty minutes of the movie, but towards the end, the film takes a different approach and travels familiar ground and becomes a straight up Slasher film with plenty of effective kills to delight genre fans.
Any fans looking for something truly original ought to check out this low budget gem, it is sure to become a classic in the genre and it brings some much needed originality to a somewhat stale genre that is overdone with remakes. Behind the Mask joins the likes of the Hatchet films and Laid to Rest movies as standout features that bring a modern twist to a classic genre.
Nice guy-next-door invites film crew over to document the fulfillment of his own little personal dream: Those guys are unstoppable killing machines. That's the comic part. But he's not kidding.
Smug self-satisfaction is what one takes away from this glib, unfunny mockumentary that might have been fertile territory for Christopher Guest to lampoon, but the filmmakers misunderstand that just because you namedrop what your target that doesn't necessarily mean you are above it. Nathan Baesal as Leslie is a preening Jim Carrey clone that projects absolutely no menace and is rarely humorous.
When Leslie is instructing his interviewers on "industry terms" like a "survivor girl", we are vexed by the perceived " hipster smartness" of the film. Once the film segues into a splatter flick, Leslie has already established himself as a camera-ready buffoon and none of what transpires is spine-tingling, it's just transparent and yawn-inducing.
One of the worst films I've seen during this October marathon.
I liked it more as a comment on the genre than a film of the genre it self. That said, Behind the Mask is well worth checking out for anyone who enjoys a good slasher flick. More Top Movies Trailers. DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Black Panther Dominates Honorees. Trending on RT Avengers: Post Share on Facebook.
Movie Info On the surface, Leslie Vernon seems like your average small town, nice guy. He has goals, ambition and aspirations to follow in the footsteps of his long-time hero Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees, and be the world's next great psycho-slasher. A true self-promoter, Leslie gives documentary filmmaker Taylor Gentry and her crew exclusive access to his life as he plans and executes his next great reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the constructions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.
Scott Glosserman , David J. Donald Sutherland shows what an old pro he is by magisterially taking command of the whole action by his profoundly emotional central performance. He has rarely shown himself more sensitive than in this film. All the performances are good, and Matthew Fox does a wonderful job of portraying the autistic James Jones. The story is really heart-breaking, and the suffering of autistic persons is extraordinarily well portrayed here.
This is a very serious and unsensationalized attempt to portray the traumas of autism, both for the autistic and those associated with them either as family, at work, or at school. Such films do a lot of good because they help a wider public understand things which to most people may seem wholly incomprehensible. After all, most human suffering which is connected with disabilities is greatly magnified and worsened by the ignorance of other people who do not understand, and who hence act with inhuman insensitivity towards the afflicted individuals and their families.
Watching 'James Jones' struggle in the workplace, even one where most of the employees themselves are disabled in some way or other, as in this film, is a lesson in humility to us all. His simple craving to find his lost father and have someone to love, and the apparent hopelessness of his achieving such a wish, take cinematic pathos to new levels. The story does not focus on James Jones alone by any means, but subtle portrays the alienation between Sutherland and his own son, sensitively played by Bradley Whitford, so that the young man who is unhappy because he has a father is contrasted with the young man who is unhappy because he does not.
Sutherland, as a compulsive workaholic, is in his own way as 'absent' to his son, despite their physical proximity, as James Jones's father is to his by being genuinely 'lost'. There is another tragic subplot, concerning the callous and heartless mistreatment of Sutherland by his professional colleagues, which serves further to underline the social and personal hypocrisy of which this film also complains.
But this is not just a 'worthy' film, it is gripping and emotional because it is so well done. Tom McLoughlin has done a very good job of directing it. Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. When Shushan suffers a heart attack, his life is saved by James Jones, a Robert Shushan life story as Dr.
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