"At first I saw a series of dark faces, like death masks, flying toward me and being crushed," writes Clinton, whose book comes out May 31 in both trade and mass market paperback.

Energetic dancers, wearing colourful wooden or composition face masks and stylised costumes, depict heroes, demons, death heads, animals, gods, and caricatures of common people.

This is more on the suspense genre as the movie is all about a killer wearing a chrome skull to hide his identity and identify himself as the new face of death.