
I’ve reviewed a couple real crappy things for this site over the last few weeks so this was a huge breath of fresh air. In “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon”, everything that sucked about Diary of the Dead is done well. It is like a cathartic removal of the terrible taste that Romero’s horrible mocumentary left in my mouth.
This is a movie that takes you behind the scenes of exactly what it takes to be a slasher superstar. In “Behind the Mask”, it is a world where the greatest horror movie icons aren’t movie icons but actual mass murderers. This documentary goes to show the sheer amount of preparation that goes into becoming one of these legends. The film crew follows around a man by the name of Leslie Vernon and his exploits into becoming the next great horror superstar.
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