La maschera del terrore

Titolo originale: Curtains

1983
R
1h 29min

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Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

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Slasher Horror Horror Mystery Thriller

Sei giovani attrici che fanno un provino per un ruolo cinematografico in una villa remota vengono prese di mira da un misterioso assassino mascherato.Sei giovani attrici che fanno un provino per un ruolo cinematografico in una villa remota vengono prese di mira da un misterioso assassino mascherato.Sei giovani attrici che fanno un provino per un ruolo cinematografico in una villa remota vengono prese di mira da un misterioso assassino mascherato.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

5,6/10

6091

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

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Lesleh Donaldson was doubled by a figure skater for the skating sequence on the pond. Donaldson was originally going to do this sequence herself and even had undergone training in a skating arena to do her own routine, but fell down on the bumpy ice on the day this scene was shot and cut her chin. Donaldson's skating double also played the killer in that same sequence.

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In one of the establishing shots of Stryker's house, a second floor window can be seen broken and a figure of a body lying on the ground below. This is from the aftermath of Stryker and Brooke's murder, but this happens much later in the film.

Citazioni
Jonathan Stryker: What makes you think you're right for Audra?
Patti O'Connor: I'm as right as anybody else you've got here. I mean, goddammit! You haven't spent five minutes with me and now you're telling me I'm wrong for the part. Why? Because I haven't got a staple to my navel like that centerfold? Because I wouldn't pirouette into bed with you and skate on your face? I mean, what the hell are you looking for anyway and what do you want from me? I mean, who the fuck is Audra anyway?
[Jonathan stays silent]
Patti O'Connor: Are you enjoying yourself?
Jonathan Stryker: I'm enjoying a little bit of Audra.
[walks away]
Patti O'Connor: You bastard.

Curiosità sui crediti
The credits are divided into acts like a play, due to the movie being centered around acting and scripts.

Connessioni
Featured in Ciupka: A Filmmaker in Transition (1983)

Colonne sonore
Save my Soul
Courtesy of Burton Cummings & Shillelagh Music Co.

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Some creepy moments marred by the ponderous pace

Some creepy moments and an atmospheric location, but "Curtains" is also ponderous and bloodless, which, for a slasher coming at the end of a cycle, is suicide. It seems to have been inspired by Soavi's "Stagefright", an excellent slasher, but it's too slight, too low key to make any impact. The plot, if you can call it that, focuses on women auditioning for a part in a horror film. They don't get the part, they get killed.

The Australian "Nightmares" (by John Lamond) bears some resemblance to this, but uses its theatre setting to better effect.

The poster art depicting a deformed doll and a curtain was striking and raised expectations, but director Jonathan Stryker seems incapable of pacing the narrative and is finally undone by is refusal to let the blood run free.