Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Blu-ray) R
Freddy, Jason, Michael. We All Need Someone To Look Up To.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 8, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Scott Wilson, Nathan Baesel, Zelda Rubinstein, Robert Englund & Angela Goethals | |
Performer: | Scott Glosserman, Kate Lang Johnson, Britain Spelling, Bridget Newton & Ben Pace | |
Directed by | Scott Glosserman | |
Screenwriting by | Scott Glosserman & David J. Stieve | |
Composition by | Gordy Haab | |
Produced by | Scott Glosserman & David J. Stieve | |
Director of Photography: | Jaron Presant |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 8/10 --
[A] terrific little pearl of a satiric horror-comedy.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: B --
A deconstructionist horror comedy that owes a debt to Scream and the 1992 Belgian film Man Bites Dog, Mask nevertheless has enough pitch-perfect wit to lay claim to its own patch of postmodern, movie-loving snarkiness.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 4.5/5 --
This film proves why deconstructing a genre you love isn't always necessarily a negative. It can help us learn how to love it even more.
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Father Son Holy Gore
a witty, smart, often very funny killer thriller, reverse-engineered so that all its workings show
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VODzilla.co
It's cool to see that he didn't chain himself to the limitations of the mockumentary format. I've actually never seen a film shot like this, so that's pretty cool.
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Cultured Vultures
Rating: 2/4 --
...it's ultimately the underwhelming execution that confirms the movie's place as an almost total misfire.
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
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.
New York Post
Product Description:
Though the slasher film parody has become well-trodden ground since the birth of the teenage body count genre in the late 1970s, screenwriters Scott Glosserman and David J. Stieve--who are clearly fans of the genre--find some new blood to let out of the serial killer comedy in BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON. The film adds elements of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986), and centers on a grad student named Taylor (Angela Goethals). Taylor is making a documentary about Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesal), a killer-in-the-making who has a dark legend surrounding him in his small Maryland hometown. Leslie's plan incorporates all the necessary factors to put him in the same situations that allowed his heroes Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers to continue killing through sequel after sequel, right down to singling out the virginal heroine who will be the one to stop him after he knocks off her promiscuous friends. Unfortunately, Taylor has a larger role in Leslie's plans than she knows, but when she finally realizes that she can't just sit back and film his killing spree, it may be too late to stop him.
The first half of BEHIND THE MASK is the funny part. Baesal, whose dry delivery often resembles Will Ferrell's, makes us forget that Leslie's planning to do some horrible things. But when the killing actually starts, the film becomes a bona fide slasher itself---and is often as good as the classics that it good-naturedly apes. Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund lends some cred in a sharp supporting role, as does Scott Wilson, best known for his portrayal of a real killer in Richard Brooks's IN COLD BLOOD.
The first half of BEHIND THE MASK is the funny part. Baesal, whose dry delivery often resembles Will Ferrell's, makes us forget that Leslie's planning to do some horrible things. But when the killing actually starts, the film becomes a bona fide slasher itself---and is often as good as the classics that it good-naturedly apes. Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund lends some cred in a sharp supporting role, as does Scott Wilson, best known for his portrayal of a real killer in Richard Brooks's IN COLD BLOOD.