Skull: The Mask

With a title like Skull: The Mask, you know exactly what you are getting here. 80s style horror made with a lot of heart and a hell of a lot of blood. Engaging and well made. Definitely worth checking out!

For the most part Skull: The Mask is a very boring film with no likable characters. I didnt like it. However, the one positive point is the heavy gore content. Its super bloody and those parts are cool. Plus there are odd uses of wrestling moves in this film.

"Skull" is a dumb film from Brazil that has little to offer cinematically other than lots of blood and practical gore effects. But if you like those things, it might be worthwhile if you're starved for entertainment. I'm actually being very generous with 4 stars, and that's because in this day and age of excessive CGI, it's nice to see the real deal.

So it starts off with a really confusing explanation of the origin of the Mask, which is hidden in a Nazi underground bunker. A leather-clad individual strides in and starts murdering people, then steals the mask and it ends up being used in a ceremony in front of a Nazi (I said it was confusing) and the mask melds itself onto a guy being sacrificed who goes crazy and starts murdering everyone in sight. Cut to present day. (What happened in the meantime??) The mask has been found and others are looking for it. Someone clueless lets it out, performs a ceremony and the mask somehow kills her and her girlfriend. Fun fact: Brazilian TV news shows grotesque crime scene photos in their reports. So later, a cleaning crew is working at the scene and the mask chooses the biggest guy to attach itself to his face and take over his body. He then starts killing people everywhere he goes in vicious and grotesque ways. Amazingly, it takes the police a long time to find him even after he attacks a disco, and when they do, only a couple of cops take him on. One would think they would be on the radio asking for backup and several dozen officers would be rushing to stop this maniac. Maybe it's different in Brazil. Anyway, the dumbness continues and a guy who looks disturbingly like Sylvester Stallone and has a connection to the confusing start eventually takes over.

The cinematography is really awful, as is the acting, the script, direction...really everything except the gore, which isn't great, but as I said earlier, I do respect the effort. It seems to have been the only thing the makers of this ridiculous film did put an effort into.

The movie is a great 80s throwback horror; a very entertaining watch, filled with gory scenes, packed with action, and a solid storyline that you just have to follow to the end.

Well done, practical effects and all!

I regret wasting my time on this trash. The lead actress is very annoying. She acts more like a supermodel, always keeping her hands on the waist n belt, always drinking n smokin jus to look cool. The film is gory but the effects r lousy. In fact, it has the worst head exploding scene n worst head smashing scene.

In short it is gory but the effects r lousy n the film lousier.

Countless no of times my reviews of this movie got deleted n here i am posting it for the third time. Let the count begin.