Scott Glosserman’s directorial debut, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is getting its nationwide release this Friday. Winner of the audience choice award at The Toronto After Dark Film Festival, this weekend will likely be your only chance to see this fantastic film in a theatrical venue. For a list of theaters (hopefully in your area) showing this film, you can click HERE. While at the main page, check out the trailers and take not only my word, but the word of hundreds of critics who praise this film for its ground breaking originality. But if you do care to take my word, HERE is MoviePatron’s full review along with an embedded trailer.

     I had the opportunity to meet with Glosserman for a couple of minutes last year and I can tell you he’s a great guy who really knows his stuff when it comes to horror films. In fact, he wrote his masters’ thesis on the conventions of horror films and was able to create this masterpiece with a genre all it’s own: the slashumentary.

For more information, click on any of the following links:
Behind the Mask official site
Behind the Mask myspace profile
Moviefone’s Showtimes in your area
Full cast and crew at IMDb.com