Disappointment for a huge fan!

Crappy film

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie centers on Syl and Maddie, a young lesbian couple and their friend (only known as the Cowboy) that own and run a porn company that caters to the weird and quirky fetishes of their customers. However, unbeknownst to their actors, the company is secretly a front for a violent snuff film ring, where the real star of the show is a horrific disfigured and sadistic man known as Maskhead who tortures the actors in ways more cruel than the last.The main characters are despicable and depraved in their own ways; from the Cowboy's crude and dirty sense of humor when seducing the victims, and Syl and Maddie gleefully discussing how they imagine the murders--clearly aroused by what they have in store for their unlucky "actors". As for their actors, they're alright even if some are a bit forgettable.The acting is alright, but as someone else said in their own reviews, some scenes (such as the interviews) are pretty slow and the actual scenes with the actors are a very slow burn building to the more entertaining sequences, which are the violence. With the SFX, they're once again done wonderfully by Jerami Cruise and fairly impressive--especially with one of the final scenes with doesn't hold back any punches and is pretty disturbing.I can see what people mean when it stays true to the mean-spirited attitude of the AU trilogy, which it definitely does if you also added a warped dark humor attitude to it, which can be a nice break from the violence if you're that kind of person who needs a cool down from more intense moments.5/10

This movie is the worst I've seen b/c there was nothing original about it. It was just not good, pornographic, tasteless, and really an uncreative movie. This movie and "The Black Dahlia Haunting" inspired me and my friends to write and direct our own movie to show you guys how to actually make a movie. It's all about the acting guys. The writing has to actually be good and the cinematography can't be all awkward and amateurish like in this movie or The Haunting. Next time let's actually make a good movie alright guys? Stop this mindless stuff or you'll never make it in this business. I feel like the filmmakers just did all this crap in the movie just to get girls to take their clothes off in front of the camera. No this is not art so don't even try to justify it. It's a load of crap. Scott Swan and Fred Vogel are just a bunch of perverted and uncreative filmmakers.

This fairly recent Toe Tag film directed by Fred Vogel, is actually pretty decent. Much more of a story than their usual productions (August Underground, Mordum), this one features a lesbian couple that interview victims for fetish and very gruesome movies, and then dispatch them in extremely brutal and graphically gory ways, via MASKHEAD, a disfigured maniac who likes to chop up his victims after torturing them. The movie plays with time, and you have to pay attention to figure out what the hell is going in, but in just about everyway, it delivers the goods, even though it can be a little confusing. I enjoyed it, it's borderline soft core, along with the extreme gore. It's definitely Toe Tags best film by far.

Maskhead starts as fetish porn producers Syl (Shelby Vogel) & Maddie (Danniella Inks) are holding auditions for aspiring actor's & actresses to appear in their seemingly tame fetish videos, there seems to be no shortage of applicant's who need to make some money & take part in the videos. The videos range from food sex to clown fetish but what the wouldbe actor's don't know is that the videos turn nasty, a big hulking man known only as Maskhead (Michael Witherel) gatecrashes the videos & promptly tortures & kills anyone foolish enough to participate. Apparently there's a big market for snuff films as Maskhead is kept very busy...Directed by both Scott Swan who also wrote this thing & Fred Vogel who was one of the producers I have to say right from the start of this comment that I hated Maskhead, I thought it was one of the worst films I have ever seen (I have 3000 plus comments on IMDb & have seen many more before I even started writing comments here) & that's a lot of films to be the bottom of the pile of. For a start this is no plot, seriously Maskhead is as basic & underwritten, unadventurous & boring a film I have ever sat though. There are huge chunks of time spent showing potential victims interviews which add nothing, there's some crap about a Cowboy who hangs around mens toilets & to make matters even worse it's actually pretty tame. None of the murders are particularly imaginative or memorable or graphic while the fetish apart of the film is also disappointing with no eroticism to be seen anywhere, a woman dressed as a clown popping balloons, a man acting like a dog & a woman playing with food is as dull as it sounds, I suppose if you have one of these fetishes then Maskhead is a dream come true but to anyone else this is flat unerotic boredom at it's most embarrassing worst. The character's are awful, we never know why they do what they do, is for the money or the pleasure? How about a little motivation or reason? We never know how they get away with it, making videos showing people being murdered is a sure fire way to have the cops knocking on your door, right? We never find anything out about Maskhead, again who he is or what he does other than kill people. None of the people they kill are proper people, just cardboard cutouts & why are none of them ever missed? There are no subplots, no twists or turns & at 88 minutes it's horribly overlong.Besides being a film devoid of any character's, any sort of plot or attempt at originality Maskhead has awful production values & looks like it was shot on a camcorder & I am pretty sure it was. Whenever we see one of the fetish videos from the cameras point of view the makers have decided to slap these black bars down either side of the screen for no apparent reason. The gore is actually quite tame, there's some blood splatter, someone is stabbed in the chest, an arm is broken & a bone sticks out when a woman has her arms cut open before an ending in which Maskhead rapes a woman with a huge wooden dildo in an embarrassingly bad scene with lousy effects (blood that looks like water, Maskhead not moving at all in the long shots while the close-up the wooden dildo is pumping). The film-making choices are also bad, there's an awful scene in which a fat Cowboy bloke has sex & the lights flicker on & off or something so there's this constant flickering which just annoyed me. The nudity is also surprisingly tame, there are a few bare breasts but nothing else & the scene in which the fat Cowby wearing a Cowboy hat & leather waistcoat fisting a male prostitute is unintentionally funny with the silly sound effects (just listen has he lubes his arm up) & the awful camera angle as it's placed about 20 feet away from the 'action'. The rock music also sounds terrible & gave me a headache.The budget for this must have been minuscule, seriously did this cost more than a few thousand? The locations look like peoples homes, the special effects are poor, the fake blood is poor, the sound is poor, the cinematography is poor & the production values are real bottom of the barrel stuff. Maybe that was the point, I don't know but if it was then I need to ask the question what is film-making coming to when anyone with a camcorder & a few friends think they make a film? The acting is awful as well, the actor's look like they are reading their lines from cue cards & the screaming in the murder scenes is so fake.Maskhead is a terrible film & it's as simple & straight forward as that. I hated it, I hated every second of it & I am positive 99% of people will feel the same way. Maskhead has zero entertainment value, is an eyesore to watch & is quite frankly boring crap from start to finish.