In the club scene, Vivian sings 'I Want You', by Tony DeSare. Originally, the filmmakers wanted to use Peggy Lee's 'Fever' but weren't able to get the rights.
The title of the movie is a reference and a tribute to the original pulp magazines called 'Black Mask' that popularized the hard-boiling writing style and some of its more prominent writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett.