4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining Slasher with elements of Other Well known films, Nov 3 2011
By Dayna Newman "Slasher Diva" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mask Maker (DVD)
Mask Maker starts off with a flash back of something traumatic that happened years before in a barn next to the main house but we don't really learn about the real story until Jennifer and Evan move in to the house years later and Jennifer finds and reads a journal and as she reads it we go to more flash backs..Jennifer and Evan get the house,barn and 40 acres for 10.000 dollars and feel so fortunate that they got such an amazing deal and better yet the house is filled with pricey antiques ,they are about to find out nothing good comes cheap.
There were so many similarities between this and Friday The 13th part 2 and the house looks just like the one from the remake of the Texas Chainsaw massacre.
There is even a scene very reminiscent of the scene where Jason falls face first onto a machete in F-13th part 4.
I liked it because the story was pretty cool and the killer lurks around very Jason Voorhees/Michael Myers style and is very creepy.His face at first is bandaged because of some kind of skin Condition he had as a child.
The new owners invite two other couples for the weekend and one by one they go missing "of course" gotta love the slasher formula.
As each is killed the killer takes the skin from their faces and puts it over his, very Leather Face -esque..The kills and effects were good and not over done,it's the kind of semi gore you would see in a Friday the 13th film nothing over the top,that's why it had an old school feel to me.I give it 3 and 1/2 stars and would watch it again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Needed a Face Lift, Nov 21 2011
By R. Schultz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mask Maker (DVD)
This film seemed to have a bit of potential at first. It was obvious it was going to be a rehash of a lot of the old Leatherface clichés, but Nikki DeLoach's good humor was infectious and the couple launching off on their new life in the isolated old house was likeable. So I was ready to overlook the townsfolk with secret knowledge of the house's dangerous past - the gathering of frolicsome young people at the house, ready to be picked off by the killer while they were in the act - and all the other formulaic plot elements that the "Scream" series does such a good job satirizing.
But then things got really dreary. Leatherface, Michael Myers, and all the other killers in that tradition might have seemed almost superhuman in their ability to rebound. But the key word with them was "almost." They might be inexorable, but it was still possible, however remotely, that they could be representing real people. A viewer could justify the time spent watching these films with the "based on a true story" rationale. After all, Ed Gein was a real person who really did drape himself in human skin.
But the killer in this film seems to rise from the dead. He emerges from a mishmash of supernatural shenanigans. So there's no way I could feel I might learn anything about the heart of true evil by watching this film. And so it lost me.
"Mask Maker" is well-photographed and has a few scary moments. But over all, it's a false-face.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
mask maker, Aug 18 2011
By A. Szarka "Russo Alexander" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mask Maker (DVD)
A guy buys a house for his girl and there friends come to celebrate. Then they die by some masked guy who reminds you of leather face from Texas C. The deaths were alright and the storyline was good enough. His masks were basically the faces of whoever he killed which is easy to get in general. Plus they do show the backdrop to who this killer is and why everything is happening, so it was fun to watch this C horror film but don't rush out to buy it.