Narrative - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) Director - Scott Glosserman

In a fiction where 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' (1984), 'Halloween' (1978) and 'Friday The 13th' (1980) were real life serial killers that meticulously planned out their killing spree to give the impression of a supernatural force, Leslie Vernon will be the next instalment in the serial killer series. In a narcissistic twist Vernon has enlisted the help of a crew of journalists to document a 'making of' for his planned rampage. But when it comes to the crunch the crew find they are unable to let Vernon go through with it, but what they don't realise is that he has taken that into consideration.

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'Behind The Mask' is a clever way of reinventing a genre that has exhausted every possibility, giving it a fresh perspective and turning the stereotypes up-side-down. Althought it could be argued that the idea was much more interesting than what the makers had executed.

 

 

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Image Bibliography

Fig 1 . Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, DVD Cover 2006, [photography] http://content6.flixster.com/movie/33/48/96/3348960_det.jpg

 

Fig 2 . Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Movie Still, 2006, [photography] http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRq4u_3-gght_JbA6J3CFx6n1epD4vXHlLCXn-hrCg8itqucR-ie4ZL6SxUIg

Fig 3 . Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Movie Still, 2006, [photography] http://www.movielogy.com/iwanproperties/moviestillfiles/behind-the-mask-1c.jpg