We just discovered that our trailer was posted on YouTube.com a while back (it’s an older trailer that had a “typo” - we thought we’d fixed the typo in time, but this one made it online! Can you spot the typo?)
Anyhow, here’s a link to the trailer - please vote on it and pass it along!
For information on showtime(s) and tickets, go here:
We are pleased to announce that BEHIND THE MASK will screen at the following festivals this fall (specific screening dates/times will be forthcoming):
Gold Coast Film Fantastic (Australia) - Sept. 8 & 10
Lund Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden) - Sept. 21-30
SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya (Spain) - Oct. 6-15
Surprise U.S. Date TBA! - Mid-October
Toronto After Dark Film Festival (Closing Night Gala Film) - Oct. 24
Cinenygma Luxembourg Film Festival - Oct. 22-28
St. Louis International Film Festival - Nov. 10
Go to MoviesOnline.CA to read the press release from Toronto After Dark, or click here:
More festivals will be announced soon, as well as a special U.S. HALLOWEEN night screening, all in anticipation of BEHIND THE MASK’s theatrical debut!!!
Stay tuned…
By: Elaine Lamkin
With a career spanning from roles in such legendary films as “In the Heat of the Night” and “In Cold Blood” to a recurring role on the CBS hit series, “CSI”, actor Scott Wilson is a familiar face to almost everyone. Now, with the hilarious and terrifying “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” making the festival rounds and getting great word of mouth, Wilson’s character of Eugene, the retired serial killer who mentors Leslie, is certain to bring him even more fans. Bloody-Disgusting recently spoke to Wilson about Eugene and just HOW familiar Scott Wilson is to the Average Joe.
“THE BEST… SO FAR
08.23.06
By Devin Faraci
I meant to run this piece about a month and change ago, when it was closer to the midpoint of the year. But you know what? I don’t mind running it now, because we’re a few weeks away from the beginning of the prestige season (let alone the release of The Prestige), and it’s all too possible that a couple of these films will fall off my Top list – not because they’re not good, but just because these lists get crowded. I’ve already seen about 200 films this year, and it would be easy to find 20 or so to put on a list.”
“Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Review)
As I write this no one has picked up this movie yet, and I have to only say, ‘WTF?’ This one part mockumentary, one part slasher movie cocktail is like catnip for horror fans. Behind the Mask is a loving tweak at slasher conventions, not a ironically detached smugfest like Scream. You know the film is great because on the one hand it pokes fun at the conventions of the slasher film while on the other hand creating a masked killer who could easily take his own spot in the great pantheon.”
Check out the entire list here:
“This year’s line-up is especially strong on movies by first-time filmmakers, which the festival has a well-deserved reputation for supporting. ”
“A film with a head-start on the FrightFest audience is Scott Glosserman’s witty slasher movie/mockumentary ‘Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon’, in which a three-person student film crew chronicles the modus operandi of a would-be serial killer with aspirations to being the next Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees. Echoing both ‘Man Bites Dog’ and Christopher Guest’s ‘Best in Show’, the film takes a wry, knowing look at the conventions of slasher movies such as ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’, ‘Halloween’ and ‘Friday the 13th’.
Glosserman knows he’s preaching to the converted, but he’s not complacent about the need to meet the demanding fans’ high expectations. Sloppy pastiche, he knows, simply would not cut it: ‘The problem with a lazy movie like ‘Scary Movie’ is that it doesn’t elevate the genre. That’s because you’re laughing at the movies it parodies, not with them. So although my film is a send-up of all those slasher movies we have loved, the nostalgic references and cameo performances [including a cast-against-type Robert Englund in the caring shrink role] make the audience feel that they own part of the film. And I think that’s why they laugh (and scream) along with it.’”
Read the entire TimeOut Piece here:
FrightFest preview - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film