Written and directed by Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman, “Skull: The Mask” takes its plotting too seriously, unfortunately, and does not have the competence to back it up. At least the blood and guts are going to a cause. It’s different from a slasher’s typical motivation of vengeance or trying to clean house, and the idea of forcefully being sacrificed is kind of morbidly funny. In hand is a jagged cleaver, which it can throw and retract like a yo-yo, while intestines dangle off his arm for good measure. The mask is possessed by the spirit of a god executioner named Anhangá, and one of the standout things about this villain is that he forcefully sacrifices people, ripping out their hearts and taking their blood. After it's brought to São Paulo, it takes over the body of a crime scene clean-up guy (Brazilian wrestler Rurik Jr.), and collects blood on his white jumpsuit as his rampage ensues. But then there's a Shudder title like "Skull: The Mask," a movie that has some beautiful, doomed young people on its chopping list, but overthinks its story, and undermines the filmmaking that makes the slashing a cinematic delight.Ī word about our villain, Skull: the mask is an artifact of Brazilian mythology, originally found in the Amazon. It’s not often that you deeply wish a horror film would just treat its slashing killer with the kind of story that Roger hated, the dead teenager movie.
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