Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Reviews
June 27, 2015
...it's ultimately the underwhelming execution that confirms the movie's place as an almost total misfire.
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| Original Score: 2/4
September 22, 2007
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| Original Score: 3/6
August 9, 2007
Other than displaying a textbook awareness of its ancestors, Behind the Mask offers next to nothing
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| Original Score: C
June 22, 2007
Fun stuff, though the jokes ultimately miss as much as they hit
Original Score: 3/5
March 16, 2007
Lacks the bitter resonance of its obvious predecessor, Belgian filmmaker Remy Belvaux's 1992 Man Bites Dog.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
March 16, 2007
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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| Original Score: 2/4
March 16, 2007
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.
Original Score: 2.5/4
March 16, 2007
[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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| Original Score: 2/4
March 15, 2007
For all of its lame distastefulness, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a sadly appropriate reflection of its time.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
March 13, 2007
Desperately overcompensating for the fact that most horror films are already parodies of themselves, Behind the Mask takes a bite out of the dumb Scream franchise before devouring its own tail, proving that you are what you eat.