Maskhead

Honestly watching this film I could see how it was made. The guys wanted to top the other films they had done, so they got a cast of actors willing to do softcore porn shots, wrote a flimsy storyline to support the gore and then Google'd several sexual fetishes to make the film even edgier. I will give them props for putting guys through the paces as well as girls. Honestly seeing men in these situations is far more interesting to me and there are so few films that even include them. However, it's still only a couple of scenes. The movie itself (minus the male skin) isn't really worth watching. The effects are passable (especially if you thought August underground was decent)and the acting is about what you'd expect from Toe Tag (which is to say a bunch of foul mouth Southern Good-Ole-Boys and Trailer Park Chicks).

There are other and better gore films out there. This one is only for Toe Tag fans. And I think it's pretty clear that any rating over a 4 is from someone who was on set or sleeping with a cast member...

Using a modeling group as a front, two women decide to embark on a side project making snuff films of their oblivious and sexed-up costars, unaware of their true intentions, feeding their victims to a hulking, masked maniac who derives gruesome pleasure in their dismemberment.

Overall, this is a wholly enjoyable and exciting effort with a lot to like about it. The main focus of this one is the creation of the kind of sleazy, adult-entertainment environment where it makes the exploitation of women feel quite natural and expected. The modeling gigs and the different interviews looking at the girls and guys auditioning to be in the adult entertainment industry offer the kind of grimy, hardcore sex environment that would make it perfectly believable that they would get away with their content as much as they do. With the blissfully unaware victims thinking they're going to get a specific vibe offering the kind of depraved, raunchy attitude, which is matched nicely by the torture aesthetic. Seeing the killer arrive in their scene and begin butchering and torturing the clueless victim until they're left broken, dismembered, and in pieces leaves quite an impression here, with it all turning the depraved directors on even further. While that all works incredibly well, the repetitive nature and one-note presentation do run into issues. It uses the same template and format for everything, of someone running afoul of a member of their entourage and realizing too late that their words have come back to haunt them, as the encounter brings them into contact with their secret weapon of the hulking, bandaged killer, turning on them and mutilating their body in the snuff video shoot. That works initially, as the whole thing is a great way to introduce the secret organization that's in play and how it builds from the first encounters. However, once it becomes apparent that this is how the whole thing operates, the one-note approach becomes a bit detrimental. The approach is more of a series of skits loosely tied together with the main characters and tends to aimlessly go through the scenes without much thought to a throughline here, which is what holds this down overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Sexual Language, Nudity, sex scenes, and drug use.

Ok, first things first. Don't pay attention to the negativity. To Tag pictures is a low budget true underground horror movie production label. And for the 4 I've seen they've delivered what horror should.

Maskhead, not your avergae lesbian couple. Holding auditions for future pornstars but when they refuse to do something asked of them a killer known as Maskhead kills him or her or them.

For a low low budget movie this was pretty good. Fred Vogel is the American Ulli Lommel. He has the talent to tell a story without having a set of good guys that face off with killers.

This isn't August Underground but if you like underground horror movies this one is for you.

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.

The lesbian couple Syl and Maddie like to produce innocent fetish movies, but each video contains a deadly twist; A huge man covered in bandages and a bizarre mask who tortures and kills the fetish-actors on tape.

Needless to say, the special effects looks spectacular and realistic. This is not for the faint of heart; Arms are sawed of, bones are broken and heads are being crushed like water melons.

The characters in the movie are brilliantly portrayed by their actors, and the acting is top notch at all times! Toetag tend to be very superficial with the characters, so it's nice to see a fresh breath of air for once!

The main character, Maskhead, is brilliantly portrayed by the big-boned Michael Witherel. When he walks in on the "movie-set" you'll be scared to death because he is so incredibly big! He is also covered in bandages, burns and (Self-injury?) scars. The villain is perfect, so why don't tell us more about the man behind the bandages?

Not really a complaint, but more of a question to Toetag; Who is Maskhead? If you have managed to invent such a brilliant villain, why don't you exploit him more? Squeeze every character potential out of him! I am begging for a sequel!

10/10