Masking Threshold

Absolutely incredible. Well paced, and beautifully shot. Almost like “found footage” of an intelligent recluse who’s analyzing and documenting his medical condition. We, as the viewer, are gradually and subtly shown that this narrator/main character is already unhinged mentally (and getting worse). Frighteningly realistic in its portrayal of how someone with mental illness can rationalize their behavior and actions, “Masking Threshold” speeds up consistently and intensifies until the manic crescendo (the last 5-10 minutes will have you glued to the screen).

I hadn’t heard anyone mention it—found it on a random list and saw it was free on Tubi. It’s a slow burn, the protagonist can be grating (it’s just who he is), but the last 15-20 minutes were a wild trip. Easily one of the most intense films I’ve seen lately.

If you enjoy hearing people complain and force their angry opinions on you in narration, sure. But this lacks everything it's hyped up to be. It's dull, monotonous, and has all of the tells of a covid film. Wasted time.

A highly intellectual yet gut-wrenching film about madness and obsession.

very interesting and fascinating watch. nerd goes nuts, pretty much, but it’s told in a completely new way.

Self-destructive descent into madness aside the film offers little to hold your attention, or even really inspire meaningful introspection. It aspires to pretentiousness as, the film at no point seems to recognize its protagonist as anything but a set piece for whom we have no attachment, no investment in, and, much like a group of school children watching a gaping fish perish on the pier, we invited along for nothing more than a spectacle. If you managed the first fifteen minutes I'm afraid there's little more to the film than the threadbare premise, and, while the experimental aspects of the film are certainly interesting enough in theory the film manages to feel like a one-person soliloquy with a character you will never feel more than a fleeting distant attachment to at best. It belongs in a college theater class, which, I suspect is where it would be best received. It is a film. It's not really worth your time. It probably wasn't worth the review, but, my goodness, if I can spare you the time, watch something with substance instead.

holy sht is all I have to say!

Calling it a slow burn doesn't quite do it justice. It's slow and exasperating like watching someone drown in molasses. Grenzfurthner makes a more suffocating and oppressive atmosphere than any horror movie I've seen in a minute. The climax suffers a bit from amateurish line delivery but it still packs a deeply unsettling punch.

horrifying decent into madness. very unique.

Watching Masking Threshold had me laughing—it’s a bold, absurd exploration of madness, control, and sound, pushing boundaries in ways most won’t be ready for. It struck me as the wild cousin to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, another sound-driven film that would be Oscar-worthy if the Academy dared.