Maskhead

Two young lesbians Syl and Madie produce gruesome and gory fetish videos with the help of a gay cowboy.Actors or should I say potential victims show up to audition for Syl and Maddie and some of them are tortured to death and slowly butchered by Maskhead,a disfigured sadist."Maskhead" is not as disturbing as "August Undergorund" trilogy.Admittedly the final scene is pretty sick and disturbing and the gore effects by Jerami Cruise are excellent,but the interviews are dull and annoying.Several scenes are too long and lead to nowhere.The acting is decent and the film is awashed with pain and suffering,so it's not a total waste.More graphic nudity should be also mandatory in this kind of sicko horror.A generous 6 out of 10.

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.

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...

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

Maskhead is a movie that has no limits with its contents of intense violence, a bisexual cowboy, two lesbian snuff filmmakers, a disturbing masked killer known as the movie title itself - Maskhead. It's a movie that will satisfy fans of extreme cinema and it's definitely not a movie for the squeamish. Directed by Fred Vogel (The Man who brought us "The August Underground Trilogy" and many more hardcore horror features) and Scott Swan (writer of two "Master Of Horror" episodes - Cigarette Burns & Pro-Life). With all the blood shed and torture scenes, they're also some slowburn scenes, but it's still a 10 out of 10 for me and It would really be awesome to see a movie mainly about the movie title character itself, Maskhead.