Nathan Baesel, Matt Bolt, Jenafer Brown
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 Ja...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 6, 2004
Stats: 1,590 reviews
A great concept, not very well executed (no pun intended).
This would have been more enjoyable as an actual "dark comedy", but it never really progesses past "dusk". Which makes it feel (at times) more like an attempt at a "edgy" new puplic television series (CW or FOX perha...( read more)
imaginitive and creative. Two things usually missing from horror movies today.
A documentary crew records the efforts of a guy trying to be the next slasher movie icon. This has a good premise as a skit or series of skits on SNL or Youtube. As a film though it's not funny enough to be a satire and not enough action or gore to be a slasher entry. So, who's t...( read more)
I heard about the plot of Behind the Mask and became really interested. A documentary crew follows an up and coming masked murderer on his preparations for his first slaughter and how he got to that point. I was expecting a dark, menacing film that would be an interesting take in...( read more)
A new benchmark for slasher films. I love the self-referential genre film, especially one executed as nicely as this one (all puns intended). I hope this is the start of a gagillion Les movies. Dark, ironic, and revealing in theme, the story flows well. I found the killer to be g...( read more)
I shouldve known this movie was gonna suck when it said Leslie was being filmed by a documentary filmmaker but I rented it anyway cauz the cover looked cool.The start of this film is VERY boring but when it started to pick up-I just didnt care & turned it off
Behind the Mask is a satirical reversal of the slasher genre which cleverly follows the conventions of horror film killers in a faux documentary style. For the most part it's a humorous elaboration of Jamie Kennedy's "rules of slasher films" speech from Scream. The second half th...( read more)
Man Bites Dog, US style. And more. For me this is the Unforgiven of Slasher movies. OK so I didn't like Unforgiven, bnut that's not the point.
Following a truly engaging Nather Baesel as the up and coming serial killer Leslie Vernon allows us to take an entertaining look at eve...( read more)
While it moved a bit slowly in the start, I padded the score a bit for the impact the termonology has had on disucssion of slasher films. While the movie holds up in terms of story, and who wouldn't love robert england
Unfortunately, we've seen this jolly inventory of slasher-flick clichés before, in other parodies dating back to "Scream." And with not much new to contribute, "Behind the Mask" starts running out of ... full review
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. full review
The dialogue has wit, and the rug gets pulled out from under us and the characters in several short, sharp jolts. At a certain point, Behind the Mask loses the tatty digital-video and immerses us in c... full review
Working in a mini-genre whose bones would appear to have been picked clean by the likes of Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven, Glosserman and Stieve find a few pints of fresh blood. full review
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