Masking Threshold

A striking chronicle told through a boldly experimental style that unsettles and accomplishes so much with so little.


Inventive, in a way that may recall such vaguely similar delusional-quest films about delusional outsiders as Pi or Bug.

Johannes Grenzfurthner's Masking Threshold is a remarkable bit of DIY lunacy, a hand-crafted nightmare that combines elements of a diary film, a first-person, found-footage pseudo-documentary, a YouTube tutorial, and the Screenlife desktop aesthetic.

With one of the best screenplays of recent years, with the superb cinematography of Florian Hofer, and the awe-inducing editing by both Grenzfurthner and Hofer, Masking Threshold is a wry, dissective look at modern society's derangement.

For those willing to invest heart, mind, body, and some semblance of soul this is a unique, inspired, intelligent, and impossible to forget cinematic experience.

For those willing to pay attention and really watch this film, it leads to an interesting payoff and feels like a new thing, a new style, something they've not seen that many times before, if at all.

Masking Threshold achieves the boundary-pushing heights it aims for, making it feel more like an actual experience.

Masking Threshold shows the audience what may a little too much time on our hands and a lot of obsession may do to our minds.

Masking Threshold is a stressful and grimy look at obsession. Its one-of-a-kind presentation will make you squirm and get under your skin long after the film is over.

The warped, claustrophobic horror of Masking Threshold is wholly original, making it one of the best horror films of the year.