Review by paul_m_haakonsen

Well, the title alone was more than sufficient for me to pick up the movie. And fueled by my love of all things horror, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch "Skull: A Máscara de Anhangá" (aka "Skull: The Mask"), even without ever having heard about it.

I have to say that the storyline in the movie failed to entertain me. It felt erratic and disjointed, as if writers Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman were working individually on each of their own scripts and having to merge the two without talking. There were so many random things in the movie that made little or no sense, and didn't really help to further the narrative. Not that there was much of a narrative to begin with. I didn't stick around to finish the movie, I will admit that; I tossed the towel in the ring after 52 minutes of prolonged boredom.

Given my very limited exposure to the Brazilian cinema, of course I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. Not that it was a bad thing, not at all. I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen when I sit down to watch a movie.

Now, the movie actually has a fair amount of violence and gore effects, which definitely helped to make up for the lack of a properly coherent and entertaining script and storyline. But alas, violence and gore can only do so much.

This is not a movie that I would recommend to horror fans. Nor is it a movie that I will ever return to attempt finish watching.

My rating of writers and directors Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman's 2020 movie "Skull: A Máscara de Anhangá" lands on a rather generous three out of ten stars.