Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Scream Factory
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: 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
Rating: 2/4 --
[Director] Glosserman can't match the wit of Scream, the fright of The Blair Witch Project or the satire of journalism seen in Series 7.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 2/4 --
About two-thirds in, the movie shifts gears disastrously. Made me want to haul someone into the cutting room for revenge.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 3/4 --
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.
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Detroit Free Press
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
Rating: 3/4 --
The movie is a lot of fun, as well as a prime example of how to pump new life into an old formula.
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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.
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