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Taylor (Angela Goethals), a budding journalist, and her team - Doug (Ben Pace) and Todd (Britain Spellings) have chosen a particularly juicy topic for their documentary, Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesel), the stuff of an urban legend as it is, who has set out to avenge himself on the village who has killed him by, as one would, killing off a bunch of partying teenagers. Now upon getting to know Leslie, Taylor can't help but notice he's a rather likeable guy, and if it wasn't for his sometimes dark humour one could have taken him for a disappointingly ordinary guy. And Leslie is nice enough to let Taylor and company in on the planning of his next massacre, on how he has already chosen a virgin, Kelly (Kate Miner) as his final girl, as he has already checked out the location of their next party - incidently his old family home - and made his preparations, and how he wants to kill an old librarian (Zelda Rubinstein) just to get her attention. His planning is pretty meticulous, down to the use of symbolism, and also his own personal nemesis, Doctor Halloran (Robert Englund) is somehow built into his story. Now his meticulous planning has its fascination on Taylor and team, so much so that they at first willingly become his accomplices. But on the big night, after Leslie has killed his first two teens - the obligatory couple having sex -, Taylor's conscience gets the better of her and she breaks off the shoot and instead wants to save the teens. Thing is, no matter what she does, Leslie seems to have an answer for it, until she finds out that Kelly's actually anything but a virgin, and the only virgin in the room is actually Taylor herself - and it was actually her whom Leslie has chosen as his final girl from square one ...

In its whole outset, this film of course is very reminiscent of the 1992 Belgian mockumentary Man Bites Dog, even if Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is much less of a biting satire and in terms of theme and insightful humour more in line with 1996's Scream, while making numerous nods to films of the original slasher cycle, especially with Robert Englund's character being a direct reference to Donald Pleasence's Dr. Loomis in the Halloween series. But that all said, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a film that has definitely found its own voice, it has its often delightfully dark humour as well as its tense scenes in all the right moments, the directorial effort is genre savvy, and the cast solid, to make this one just so much fun to watch.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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