Behind The Mask

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Posted By: Kirk Siddals - 17/09/2007 12:53:26

Winner of the Best Film and the L'Ecran Fantastique Awards at Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival and the Audience Award at New York's Gen Art Film Festival, BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON is both a witty and scary satire of the slasher genre that ‘manages to pump fresh blood into the horror-comedy subgenre' (Variety).

An inventive and slightly disturbing mockumentary about a deranged young man intent on following in the footsteps of his heroes, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, the film stars Nathan Baesel (Invasion), Angela Goethals (24) and, with suitably astute casting, Robert Englund (the A Nightmare On Elm Street movies), Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood) and Zelda Rubinstein (Poltergeist), as well as featuring a ‘blink and you'll miss him' cameo from Kane Hodder (the actor behind the mask of Jason Voorhees from 1988 to 2001).

Hoping to find fame as one of the greatest psychotic serial killers in history, even overshadowing the diabolical notoriety of Myers, Vorhees and Krueger, young Leslie Vernon (Baesel) invites a small documentary film crew to follow him as he plots a bloody night of mass murder. Vernon even has his own potential nemesis in the form of Doc Halloran (Englund), an obsessed psychiatrist intent on stopping the killer before he even gets started.

Now, having chosen his victims and laid the traps that will lead them to their fate, Vernon, along with the film crew, lies in wait. But as the evening approaches, Vernon's careful plans begin to unravel and the head of the documentary team, Taylor Gentry (Goethals), is forced to become actively involved in the madman's horrific scenario.

With a smart script that seamlessly mixes the jokes with the jumps while paying homage to the killers that have inspired the film's eponymous anti-hero, BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON is an intelligent and darkly funny shocker that will delight horror fans.

BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£16.99) by Starz Home Entertainment on 24th September 2007.
 
Title: Behind The Mask
Label: Starz Home Entertainment
Release date: 24th September 2007
Certificate: 18
Running time: 93 mins approx
Price: £16.99 (RRP)
Director: Scott Glosserman
Stars: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein, Scott Wilson, Robert Englund

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