The Mask of Horror

Year: 1912

Runtime: 12 mins

Language: French

Director: Abel Gance

Horror

The obsessive sculptor, intent on achieving his ultimate vision of “the mask of horror,” coats himself in blood using the glass of an oil lamp and positions himself before a mirror. He then ingests a potent poison, deliberately subjecting himself to intense suffering to study how pain transforms his work.

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