Curtains (1983)
Directed by Richard Ciupka
Curtains is an early 80's Canadian Slasher. Set at a large isolated house, it takes good advantage of it's winter setting, creepy dolls, and old lady masks.
The film begins with a movie producer taking an actress to an asylum to be committed. The whole thing a part of the actresses research for an upcoming role, but once inside the institution, she's affected more deeply than she expected. When she discovers that the producer has started casting for the role she's researching, she escapes, and makes her way to his large country house. Even before the official auditions begin, one of the actresses going for the role is murdered on her way to the house. Over the next few days the other actresses are knocked off one by one.
This movie's low budget origin, with it's requisite dreary visual style and bad lighting, does nothing but help add atmosphere to this solid Mystery/Slasher. The mystery is an after thought, like it usually is in early Slashers, and a hold over from the Giallo, whose influence was still looming large. The acting is passable, and the story has the feel of a 1970's TV movie, but with more sex and violence. If you like Slashers this is a pretty good one from the days when they still had plots more complicated than "some kids go in the woods".
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