The Mask1961
“Look through the mask...if you can't take it...take it off!”
Directed by Julian Roffman
The premise
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
Horror Vault's take
When a troubled archaeologist uncovers an ancient mask with terrifying power, the nightmares and violent impulses it unleashes drive him to a desperate act — and the curse doesn't stop there. The mask finds its way to Dr. Barnes, a psychiatrist who begins experiencing the same hallucinatory visions his former patient described. Each time the mask is donned, reality fractures into a savage dreamscape that feels disturbingly real. This Canadian cult oddity blends psychological unease with visceral surrealism in a way that still unsettles decades later.
Content: Disturbing Surreal Imagery, Depiction Of Suicide, Nightmare Violence
Cast
Paul Stevens
Doctor Allan Barnes
Claudette Nevins
Pam Albright
Anne Collings
Miss Goodrich
Bill Walker
Lieutenant Martin
Martin Lavut
Michael Radin
Leo Leyden
Doctor Soames
Norman Ettlinger
Professor Quincey
W.B. Brydon
Anderson (as Bill Bryden)
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
Eleanor Beecroft
Mrs. Kelly
Ray Lawlor
Lab Technician
Rudi Linschoten
Mime in Nightmare
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