Director needs your help for Before The Mask: The Return Of Leslie Vernon

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon quickly became a fan favorite with its clever approach in dissecting the genre, as well as introducing a new slasher to the ranks. We’ve been hearing about a potential sequel for a few years now, and on Facebook, writer/director Scott Glosserman has announced he needs the fans’ help.

“I had a very rude awakening when I called the distributor of the first film and said ‘We’re ready to go with the sequel.’ And they said not only forget about financing but that if I brought them a finished movie, if I handed a finished movie to them, they would not even distribute it for a fee. It just blew me away. I figured of anybody they must know how well Behind The Mask has been accepted. It did a great number on DVD,” says Glosserman on the wall the sequel just hit financially.

He continues: “We sold mid six figure units on the original DVD and if half of those people spend twenty bucks pre-ordering the second film then we’ve raised more than a million dollars. So, in theory, we could crowd fund the movie. I know that’s probably not a fully realistic possibility but, nonetheless, it’s fun to set a goal to be the first movie ever to crowd fund more than a million dollars. That’s our benchmark. At worst what we’re trying to do is demonstrate a groundswell of online community support and, in so doing, we want to demonstrate that there are several thousand people who have pre-ordered the DVD and we’ve got several thousand Facebook friends and if I can take that – with a fully baked script and a couple of cameos – to a Lionsgate, who are already making original two million dollar films, it just seems to me that it would be a no brainer that they would finance this film.”

So he needs your help. Plain and simple. Now, we at Killer Film loved Behind the Mask, and fully support his sequel, and if we recall correctly, our readers are tired of weak-tit horror titles that clog of the Redbox and the Best Buy shelves, so put your money to what you want: a real, damn good horror sequel in Before the Mask: The Return of Leslie Vernon. Click this  Facebook link to help out.

Source: Twitch

Jon Peters

I love film. That is all.

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