A film director has a willing actress committed to a mental hospital under false pretenses as a way to research for a role in his upcoming horror film. Though, in a total dick move, he leaves her in there and, instead, decides to invite a handful of starry-eyed actresses to his house to audition for the much sought after part. However, the betrayed woman is bailed out of the funny farm and shows up at the house, coincidentally around the time these chicks start getting killed off by a psycho in an old lady mask...
It took me two nights to finish this one because I seriously just couldn't stay awake for it. The body count is minuscule and the kills are all completely bloodless. Not to mention we get such incredibly long intervals between any scenes with the killer. It's almost as though the director forgot he was making a horror movie, but was behooved to incorporate the bare minimum of slasher concepts. I checked out his filmography and just about everything else he's been involved with has been a rom-com or a family-oriented TV show, so the lack of understanding as to the horror genre that is so apparent when watching "Curtains" may not have been far from valid. The only decent scene in the movie is on a frozen lake where the masked murderer pursues a victim on ice skates. Aside from that, "Curtains" is a waste of time and deserves the relative obscurity it has fallen into.
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