Showing posts with label Paul Stevens. Show all posts
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Monday, June 3, 2013

THE MASK (1961) movie review


Mask, The (aka Eyes from Hell) (1961) d. Roffman, Julian (Canada)

After his patient commits suicide, psychiatrist Paul Stevens attempts to uncover the hypnotic, strange powers the titular object has upon the wearer, and unsurprisingly falls under its spell himself. Commanded (frequently) to “Put on the mask!” (also the cue for viewers to don their 3D glasses), Stevens is transported in a hallucinatory realm of horror imagery, with snakes, firebolts and sexy, muslin-wearing females lurching toward him and the audience in blue-and-red tinted stereovision.