Mask of Thorn

"His Origin Unmasked"

2019 1h 42m EN

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4.5

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★4.5TMDB · 8

Horror

Synopsis

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Bethany has been kidnapped by Avondale's popular kids for a surprise birthday party to celebrate her sweet 16. They don't realize that Bethany is the target of the monstrous 'Thorn', and nothing will stand in his way.

“His Origin Unmasked”

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Cast

Eve Kathryn Oliver
Bethany Lovell
Sophie Bryant
Olivia Ormonde
Maria Lee Metheringham
Mina Adams
Atticus Machiavellian
Thorn
George Horn
John Lawrence
Lydia Cashman
Julia Barrington
Martin W. Payne
Derek Lovell
William Marshall
Lance Manning

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: MJ Dixon
Writers: MJ Dixon
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

MoodPlayr · trivia#02

3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Thorn Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Eve Kathryn Oliver and Sophie Bryant and Maria Lee Metheringham carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "His Origin Unmasked".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt6576144 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 8 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

MJ Dixon directs. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Released 7 years ago.
3Part of the "Thorn Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Eve Kathryn Oliver and Sophie Bryant and Maria Lee Metheringham carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "His Origin Unmasked".
7IMDB entry: tt6576144 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 8 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Status: Released
Budget: $4,500
Original language: EN
Certification (US): 15
IMDB: Mask of Thorn (2019)

Part of

Thorn Collection

Collection of the Thorn movies

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MJ Dixon

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CinemaSerf2024-11-24
★ 4/10
The writing might have been on the wall for poor old "Bethany" (Eve Kathryn Oliver) when her indifferent parents don't care a jot for her sixteenth birthday. Luckily for her, though, her pals do and so they concoct a plan to kidnap her and hold a surprise party in their locked-up school. That's maybe not the best idea when this "Skeletor" type of fella with glowing blue eyes shows up and starts a-slaughtering her drippy mates. Doors and walls, even service tunnels, prove no barrier to this lurching menace - but what could he possibly want with her? Well quite possibly he blamed her for the appalling script and decided that she had to pay on behalf of the viewing public? Indeed, maybe he quite kindly decided to eliminate the whole shower of them before they could make a third film in this woefully conceived, low-budget, example of just how amateur film-making can be. Using the darkened school could have helped with aspects of the menace, but it doesn't - it just ensures that we can't see a thing for most of the time, taking the pressure off the make-up artist, visual effects person and enabling the actors to remain largely anonymous for the sake of their own future careers (in anything but acting!). Clarke Tribe merits a special mention in the credits, perhaps he bought the moonshine for the wrap party? He certainly didn't do anything at all to make this look or sound better on the screen - but then nobody else did either. One to avoid I'm afraid, even for die-hard fans of the genre.

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