John Vernon, Lynne Griffin, Lesleh Donaldson

Samantha Sherwood has worked with the well-known director Jonathan Stryker on all his major films. She naturally assumes she has been given the title role in his latest venture, "Audra". He tells her ...( read more  read more... )that she nn needs to do some background research on the part, so arranges to have her committed to an asylum (as Audra is a former psychiatric patient). She goes along with this, not realising that he intends to leave her there indefinitely and audition six young women of various professions for the part instead. She finally manages to escape, and returns to the spooky old mansion where the auditions are taking place. But who is causing the disappearances of the young hopefuls?? Is it Samantha? Stryker? Or is one of the actresses willing to kill for the coveted part?? Just who is the killer behind the old-hag mask???

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Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Richard Ciupka

Release Date: March 4, 1983

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  • March 22, 2009
    Wildly uneven 80's slasher with huge gaps in both logic and plot.
    The mask and the toilet scene however are to be commended.
  • July 24, 2007
    A superb 80's Canadian horror movie! It begins with a famous but insane movie director Jonathan Stryker (John Vernon) locking his lovely actress wife in a mental hospital with the understanding she's studying for the role of a mad-woman; but he doesn't let her be released!

    Yea...( read more)rs later, John Stryker holds a very special audition event at his secluded country estate, by invitation only, to six beautiful actresses, for the role which his now-insane wife was to play.

    Each of the girls are killed one by one by a frightening killer wearing the mask of an old woman. My favorite scene was on the outdoor ice rink, with one of the girls skating to Burton Cummings' song and savagely slashed by the freaky killer. I liked all the imagery with the dolls they used. Underrated horror film. I hope it comes to region 1 DVD soon.
  • January 17, 2009
    Decent film with a somewhat cool killer, atmosphere, music, and the storyline that make it worth watching. .
  • October 28, 2009
    CURTAINS ended up being a total disappointment....i have always wanted to see this and HEY - it has THE MAN John Vernon in it. Well John Vernon is fucking fantastic in this but he can't help the rest of this flick. The women in this are absolute mutts so nudity can't help it mu...( read more)ch. The kills all suck except the well known "ice rink" sickle kill. The soundtrack is excellent though (done by the same guy that did PROM NIGHT) and the end has a nice unexpected twist. In the end - CURTAINS on a whole misses the mark bigtime.
  • December 27, 2008
    Boring "Cult" slasher film. The mask was awesome it look like an old hag. The ice skating scene was cool to but the movie was too boring for me.
  • October 9, 2008
    Someone needs to put this out on DVD. NOW!
  • March 7, 2008
    A very cool horror film from 1983, a very cool and bloody plot about a person trying to get a part in a movie and murder goes on and people are getting killed off one by one. I loved this film when I first saw it on HBO back in 1983 and still love it.
  • January 1, 2008
    Curtains is a fun 80s slasher, but it's better than most. The mask is creepy, the ice skating scene is great, and the twist was unexpected. Much better than I expected.
  • September 9, 2007
    Great horror slasher!

    I love it! The part when the killer ice skates is terrifying!

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