Film Details

Canada’s first 3-D feature tells of an ancient tribal burial mask that causes the wearer to see gruesome psychedelic visions and commit unspeakable crimes. This low-budget shocker with stereoscopic nightmares by montage master Slavko Vorkapich (The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra) was also Canada’s first full-length horror film. “At the risk of overstating things, [the film’s] trip sequences—with their emphasis on ritual, incantation, and a central figure struggling to cope with a violent psychosexual awakening—work to elevate The Mask beyond its earned place in Canuxploitation history and into the realm of avant-garde-tinged psychodrama, playing the same game (if not at all in the same league) as Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger.” -cinema scope. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 83 min.