Various Youtube Superheroines with the SHF aesthetic, Part 2

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Seems like the original thread was getting a bit long and hard to load, especially after I added all of those Heroes of the North episodes. So..continue to load that thread as well, but here is Volume 2. I recently stumbled on this series, Legacy of the Masque by filmmaker Travis Legge, which is four years old. Entire episodes aren't available on Youtube- just various trailers- because the episodes are being sold online in places like DriveThruComics (a nice digital comics vendor) at $1 per episode or Amazon at $5 for the whole 20-minute movie. Either way a bargain.

This Masque series is notable for three reasons: 1) it's one of the very few that revives a Golden Age heroine (putting it in the same category as the public domain heroine comics released by Dynamite, such as Project Superpowers), 2) it uses a licensed heroine from AC Comics (a la Stormy Tempest) and 3) it features lead actress Sierra Holmes, a known quantity from B-horror films like Piranha 3D and who also appeared on VH1's Scream Queens reality show back in 2010. She plays Diana Bowman, a girl who finds the superheroine costume of her Golden Age grandmother and decides to take up the mantle of The Masque.

Here's an interview with Sierra about general topics to get a good idea of her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyhkzyXD828

Opening sequence of Legacy of the Masque:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL-_HlONkAQ

I couldn't find any clips from Episode 1 so I don't know if it explains her origin, But by the time we get to episode three there's some nice peril
and shiny spandex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGpJ8f93VC4

In Episode 4 Masque gets free and there's fighting and more peril:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAjbOSHPjQ8

In Episodes 5, 6 and 7 The Masque meets the more sleek-bodied and very sexy speedster Silver Streak (played by Holland Zander), It kind of looks like Silver Streak actually does most of the work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoI2NGYd9as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVTBKnWQ0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyshaWsXKEg

So, it doesn't look like Travis Legge went back to that well of ideas for a Masque 2, which is too bad because he could have created a whole universe. Seems like since then he's done horror, romance, suspense type stuff. But here from 2014 is a film he did called Bloom, about a girl Lily who gets abducted from a goth club called Sanctum by a mysterious blond man to a hotel room and then wakes up and finds out she has some interesting powers (which seem to be of a vampiric nature).
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Lily is played by beautiful actress DeAnn Baker who looks pretty great right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXeTvF6FIYc
By the 5th clip she's wearing a black leather getup like a Black Canary thing. Not sure what that's all about, guess you'll have to buy the movie to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXdZyQwRSn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIWL8l40tKk
A gothy music video to accompany the Bloom movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9eYVArQio
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Legacy of the Masque series is available at $0.75 per episode via this link:
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/109 ... pisode-One
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