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Faceless After Dark
BandSAboutMovies20 October 2023
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After starring in a killer clown horror flick, Bowie (Jenna Kanell, Tara from another killer clown movie, Terrifier and Terrifier 2) is held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as the slasher that she survived in her movie, which has now become her life.

Directed by Raymond Wood and written by Todd Jacobs and Jenna Kanell, Faceless After Dark starts with Bowie stuck working conventions and doing Cameos, barely holding on to any fame that she may have had. Meanwhile, her girlfriend Jessica (Danielle Lyn) is really enjoying getting to star in a superhero movie. It gets so bad that fans ask Bowie to take photos of themselves with Jessica, which really gets at her.

The man in the clown mask (Max Calder) has, however, found the wrong final girl for the movie in his head. Bowie has had it with her place in the world and is way more dangerous than the character she played on screen. After killing off one fan, she feels something she hasn't felt in some time. Some level of control. Some level of being alive. And that clown won't be the last. Bowie begins to invite all of the worst comments on her social media to Jessica's house and then kills them, one by one, all while neon colors play on the screen and blood sprays.

Is it a home invasion movie if you invite them into the house?

You're either going to see this as a cathartic blast of getting back at horrible people or an entitled woman who just can't get it together. I'm on the former side of the argument, but I can see some loving this and some just hating every minute.

That said, Kanell is great and the movie looks absolutely gorgeous.
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9/10
Make your own movie
kosmasp1 September 2023
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No pun intended - I will talk about the twist of the movie. Although I am not entirely sure if some reviews already give it away. I know that I wouldn't like to do that to you or anyone for that matter, so the next paragraph is going to start generally but then I'll ... tell you about a dark secret.

Jenn Coleman, whom you may know from a clown movie - Terrifier, seem to struggle with that and the fandom it attracted. Well some part of that. So this movie is a bit of catharsis for her. She starts off being the struggling artist ... having a way more successful partner to her side. Not an easy thing to live with.

But she really unravels .. and yes you have been warned multiple times ... when someone breaks into her house .. with a clown mask nevertheless. Really crazy you say ... but this does not go the way you may expect at that moment. This will not become a cat and mouse game .. she goes off on him and ... he has zero chance against her. Proving my theory that you must be crazy to do pranks in America .. though I am not even sure I would call breaking and entering a prank ... just me? I hope not.

And this trend continues as she takes the advice she had been given by a friend and ... well creates art ... by killing people. People who deserve it? Where is your moral compass on that ... can the end justify the means? Tough one - really well acted and edited ... I do believe that fandom is mostly positive .. but those who are negative ... well they are extremely toxic ... in the end, we are all humans with feelings .. right? If you don't like something, that's ok ... don't make it personal though... unless you want to become faceless after dark ...
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5/10
Bowie is far from hunky dory.
BA_Harrison26 August 2023
Having starred in a killer clown movie, emotionally fragile actress Bowie (Jenna Kanell) finds herself harrassed by obsessive perverts who inundate her with obscene messages via social media. When her more successful girlfriend Jessica (Danielle Lyn), star of a hit TV show, leaves for a job in London, Bowie is left all alone, and is targeted by an intruder in a clown mask carrying a pair of garden shears; however, Bowie is able to overpower the prowler and deals with him using extreme force, an act of violence that tips the already unstable woman over the edge...

Like Zoe Termelis's character in Ms.45, Bowie flips her wig when attacked by a man. However, unlike Abel Ferrara's movie, Faceless After Dark is less 'satisfying and stylish feminist revenge fantasy' and more weak 'torture porn', the film largely comprising of a series of premeditated acts of violence perpetrated on a series of helpless individuals who, while not exactly upstanding pillars of society, aren't really deserving of such punishment. It's like a rape/revenge movie, but without the rape to justify the revenge.

If an hour or so of a flaky nutjob off her meds luring people to their deaths is what you're after, then have at it, but I was hoping for something a little more substantial.

4.5/10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.
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