The Monkey's Mask is an international co-production 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang.

Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect (McGillis) in the disappearance of a young woman.

[2] In Australia, a young woman called Mickey reads a poem to an audience at a bar.

Jill Fitzpatrick is a former police officer turned private detective, who investigates missing persons.

She meets two poets, Bill and Tony, both of whom are older men who were having sexual relationships with Mickey.

Jill starts receiving threatening telephone messages from someone with their voice disguised.

Jill meets Bill who tells her that Mickey "broke" him and made him write filth.

Jill tells Diana that Bill had told her about some "evil" poems Mickey had written.

Meanwhile, the police look at the evidence and listen to an audio tape Jill took of Nick confessing.

[4] A. O. Scott for The New York Times wrote "[t]here is something charming about the movie's vision of poetry as a sleazy, glamorous pursuit" but called Lang's direction "flat" and "paceless" and criticised the "painfully expository script" for "some astonishingly bad dialogue.

"[6] Paula Nechak's review for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is more positive and praises Susie Porter, who she says "radiates intelligence and carries an accessible sexiness to the screen.

"[7] The Monkey's Mask won the Australian Screen Sound Guild award for Soundtrack of the Year in 2001.

Susie Porter won the award for Best Actress at the Dallas OUT TAKES festival also in 2001.