PROJECT DETAILS:
After 20 years the sequel is finally moving forward with Paper Street Pictures producing. A kickstarter campaign will also launch that'll help make the movie "bigger." Director Scott Glosserman was quoted saying: "We’re making the movie either way, but the more the audience gets involved, the bigger we can make it. Bigger set pieces. More cameos. More surprises. This has always been a fan-driven film, and it still is." (4/10/26)

Director Scott Glosserman had a recent interview where he revealed some things fans can expect from the sequel. Check below for the more interesting bits, while the full interview can be read here.

What can you say about the storyline? 

Not much [laughs], other than that we’ve worked really hard iterating and iterating and iterating. So much of what we were doing in the aughts, and even in 2010, 11, 12, it was like we would write something in the sands, which then shifted underneath us. You know, in 2006, what we did was very novel. But then the whole meta self-referential thing not only super-saturated horror, it permeated myriad other genres. So it’s not enough to just be self-referential; we have to dig a lot deeper now, while preserving that commentary about the conventions and archetypes of what we’re exploring. 

Fortunately, we have entire cycles of horror over the last two decades to pontificate about. And also, we can reflect on our own lives, what we’ve been up to for the last 20 years and how that corresponds to our characters and what they’ve been doing. You know, who has succeeded? Who has not achieved their goals yet? Was Leslie a success, and according to what benchmarks? Did he become the next Michael Myers? Well, not commercially, but he’s respected by the community in his world, as he is in the real world. So a lot of the narrative focuses on what has happened since then, and that can also be a commentary about life imitating art.

The whole culture, and especially social media, has evolved so much in the last 20 years. How does the new script address that? 

That is challenging on one hand, given that the original film was about a documentary crew, and now technology permeates everything, and it’s all instant recognizability. In terms of the commentary, what has that done to a generation? What type of epidemics permeate culture now? How polarized we are, what social media has done, how desensitized we are—these aren’t things we need to comment on directly, but we can comment on them indirectly, because they’re reflected in horror films themselves. The horror canon keeps up with the zeitgeist, and it is our job to reflect what the genre is doing. And therefore, it will comment on what’s happening in society, if we do it right.

What is the one thing about the sequel that will be most different from the original? 

Oh, man. That’s a great question. I would say, technically speaking, that BEHIND THE MASK II is going to be more sophisticated, because we all have 20 years’ more experience in what we’re doing. It will also be a heck of a lot more challenging to decide how we’re going to shoot, in what formats. It was much easier to go from a documentary style to an omniscient cinematic approach in the first film, and that conceit really worked. In this one, it’s going to be more difficult to achieve an omniscience throughout the entire running time. It was novel back then, but shooting with cell-phone cameras or selfie sticks now, it’s going to feel done before. So my biggest challenge as a director is figuring out how to tell this story. That’s something we’re working on that I can’t reveal right now, but I think it might be the biggest departure from the original.

Robert Englund returns as Doc Halloran and will reportedly have a bigger role in the sequel. According to director Scott Glosserman: "He will be a more consequential character in this movie, whereas in the first one he was a cameo, albeit an important one. This time, he’s more significant."

Actor Nathan Baesel returns as Leslie Vernon, while Angela Goethals is also back as Taylor.

Original writer David J. Stieve returns to script and original director Scott Glosserman is also back behind the camera.

This project has been talked about and in and out of development for 20 years.

This is a sequel to 2006's Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.