Taylor Gentry is a journalism student with a scoop: a supernatural psycho-slasher will let her document his bloodletting debut.
March 18, 2007 (Press Release) --
Accompanied by two classmates with camcorders, Taylor interviews Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesel). He shows her how to kill off clueless college students like herself.
On his MySpace page Vernon lists as heroes Jason Vorhees, Freddy Kreuger and Michael Myers. Gentry treats these fictional characters from classic horror films as real, and visits their fictional hometowns of Crystal Lake, Springwood and Haddonfield. Her video is set in Glen Echo where generic characters like Virgin Girl, Stoned Guy, and Slightly More Stoned Guy are unlikely to see the light of the end credits.
Producer, director, and co-writer Scott Glosserman did his homework. Back at the University of Pennsylvania, he wrote his senior paper on the horror genre. He mastered the theory but employs too little technique to make this fake documentary truly scary or savvy.
Inspired casting includes a retired psycho-killer played by Scott Wilson, who played a real killer in 1967's "In Cold Blood." Robert Englund from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise plays a psychiatrist specializing in psycho-killers.
"Behind The Mask" recalls "Man Bites Dog" and "Street Thief," two other dramas about documentarymakers who shoot over the shoulders of their criminal subjects. Yet 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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On his MySpace page Vernon lists as heroes Jason Vorhees, Freddy Kreuger and Michael Myers. Gentry treats these fictional characters from classic horror films as real, and visits their fictional hometowns of Crystal Lake, Springwood and Haddonfield. Her video is set in Glen Echo where generic characters like Virgin Girl, Stoned Guy, and Slightly More Stoned Guy are unlikely to see the light of the end credits.
Producer, director, and co-writer Scott Glosserman did his homework. Back at the University of Pennsylvania, he wrote his senior paper on the horror genre. He mastered the theory but employs too little technique to make this fake documentary truly scary or savvy.
Inspired casting includes a retired psycho-killer played by Scott Wilson, who played a real killer in 1967's "In Cold Blood." Robert Englund from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise plays a psychiatrist specializing in psycho-killers.
"Behind The Mask" recalls "Man Bites Dog" and "Street Thief," two other dramas about documentarymakers who shoot over the shoulders of their criminal subjects. Yet Glosserman can't match the wit of "Scream," the fright of "The Blair Witch Project" or the satire of journalism seen in "Series 7."
Source: http://www.msn.com
POSTED BY BILL STAMETS
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