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The Laughing Mask (2014)
Fun Low Budget indy horror
This was free while I was scrolling through Tubi, I liked the mask never heard of the director or anyone in the cast. When the poster is good, the budget is low and nobody in the cast is known you know you're playing horror Russian roulette its either going to be a good or a total disaster. Laughing Mask fell under good..
I dont think its 10 stars, but when I came in to look I saw people pelting the poor movie with 1 star reviews like wtf man, what were your true expectations going in? Saying stuff like "its unwatchable" is totally unfair, go in knowing its a low budget movie..
Ill rate the goods and bads..
The villain is well written and whoever plays him does a fantastic job bringing him to life. Having the dude use music to convey what he says was different and very well done.
Score was great, someone scrubbed through all old school royalty free music and it gives an old timey look
Story was so so, I wanted a horror and got a thriller. I saw other ppl saying the same and I agree the movie is not characterized correctly. It falls more under along came the spider than saw but never commits fully to either.
Cinematography was good, again for a low budget movie. There is a scene at the killer's home is my favorite in the entire film, you can see it was shot in a hurry like.. 1 take and GO GO GO..
The bad was everything associated with low budget that you should see everywhere..
Sound was rough at some points. They tried to do ADR which probably made it worse since doesnt match some of the other scenes
some of the set pieces are weird, like that restaurant scene was fully ADR and made no sense being shot in a restaurant, felt like lots of the scenes were shot in the first place they were able to. The "fight scene" at some alley was weird disjointed, we went from a horror type movie to action lol it was weird.
That acting ranges from ok to good to godawful. The main players (Jake, Cordova, Kate) are solid, the support players like Brock was wooden but ok..
I would give it a honest 6 stars as it I watch a ton of these no budgets and this was well shot, well executed and had a good story with A+ to the title character.