The Mask

1961

Action / Horror / Thriller

15
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 1028 1K

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Plot summary

A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.


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Claudette Nevins as Pam Albright
Paul Stevens as Doctor Allan Barnes
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1 hr 23 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by fertilecelluloid 4 / 10

Effective, trippy and bizarre

The 3-D process used by the producers of this odd flick was called Nature Vision. Like most 3-D efforts such as "Comin' At Ya" and "The Man Who Wasn't There", the whole point of the exercise was the 3-D. In this, also known as 'Eyes of Hell", the 3-D sequences are pretty effective and trippy and quite bizarre. They also feel like they were shot for another film. The bridging story about a man receiving an Aztec mask is rather slow and ponderous and stylistically inert. But when the hallucinations occur, triggered by the mask, the imagery becomes psychedelic and surreal. There isn't much violence or bloodshed, but the use of the process is respectable. I saw this originally at a drive-in and I well remember the original, colored ad mat (red) that promoted the film's gimmick.

Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 7 / 10

All dream sequences

When I was just getting really into psychotronic film, I was obsessed with the RE/Search book Incredibly Strange Films. It's where I learned all about obsessions like Blast of Silence, Spider Baby, God Told Me To and the movies of Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, David F. Friedman, Ed Wood, Radley Metzger, Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels and many more. If you don't have a copy, I find it indispensable even in today's internet era.

The cover of that guide had a photo of The Mask, AKA Eyes of Hell, that blew me away. It's at the same time so goofy looking and yet so sinister, like a piece of outlaw art ready to steal your soul.

It's taken me around thirty years to get around to watching this movie, because I was sure that it could never live up to that image. Guess what? It's even better.

The story itself is pretty simple. Dr. Allen Barnes (Paul Stevens, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Black Six) has just received a tribal mask from one of his patients who has committed suicide. Whenever he puts on the mask - which demands to be worn - he goes into a trance with visions that become more violent, like some lo-fi version of Videodrome.

The thing is, how that story is told is astounding. The dream sequences shift to 3D, with some of the most bizarre imagery to ever appear in a studio picture, seeing as how this was put out by Warner Brothers. This wasn't some movie they hid, either. It had a ton of hype behind it and patrons even got a pair of Magic Mystic Masks to see the other world with.

The majority of the movie is just fine, but much like any time a giant monster walks into a Toho film, the movie comes alive any time you hear a voice say, "Put on The Mask!" That's when things get out of control, with fog, flame and pseudo-occult rituals filling every part of the screen. Seriously, just wait until you see just how wild this movie gets. Somehow, it's a drug movie in 1961 with practical effects that blows anything made today with full technology out of the ozone.

Director Julian Roffman would go on to write and produce The Glove, as well as produce another startling strange movie, The Pyx. He can claim that he made Canada's first horror movie, of the country's first films to be exported to the United States and its only 3D movie, too.

Reviewed by mark.waltz 8 / 10

Paul Stevens takes a visit to another world.

Over a decade before he became a contract player on the long running soap opera, Paul Stevens played a psychiatrist who found many alternate worlds by placing on his face an ancient mask which took him into a place of many horrific visions. The mask itself is pretty creepy to look at, resembling a skeletal face covered in jewels. With that mask on, he confronts demons of many different natures that could provoke months of nightmares. These create disturbing reactions from him which begin to have eerie consequences when he puts the moves on his devoted secretary Claudette Nevins.

This is the type of horror film that was probably considered too scary for television, something that would have had to have been much more subtle for either "The Twilight Zone" or "Thriller". The nightmares that Stevens has are of such a devilish vision that the audience certainly had to be forewarned of what they would be getting themselves into. The makeup, sets, music and photography literally become a part of the story within the nightmares, and a lot of imagination has this comparable to the European new wave with a bit of Val Lewton's classic horror thrown in. If you're looking for a good spooky perfect Halloween style film, then this is it!

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