Top 10 Scariest Masks for Halloween

Ever due to the fact Michael Myers went over a killing spree in his Halloween costume, masks are a staple of slasher motion pictures.

Sometimes they provide to cover the killer’s identity while other times they conceal a disfigured face, and other times, well, probably the production team just thought it’d look cool. Usually the idea is that it’s what lurks underneath the mask that’s scary, but a good horror movie mask is frightening in its own right.

Here then are 10 of the scariest masks:

10. The Phantom’s Mask

The Phantom of the Opera might be the original masked killer, but while the Phantom’s traditional half-mask is pretty cool, it’s got nothing on the weird metal bird mask donned by the Phantom of the Paradise. It’s vaguely robotic, looks decidedly uncomfortable, and is deeply creepy.

9. Preacherman

Preacherman might not are actually the scariest killer in the ‘slashers’ arena, but he probably had the most frightening mask. It’s another one of those faces-going-wrong deals. He sort of looks like a plasticky decayed guy, and that, combined with the ridiculous preacher outfit, makes for a pretty nasty combination.

8. These Horrifying Grinning Faces

What kind of mask should you wear to murder your neighbours? Maybe something with exaggerated features and massive insincere toothy grins? The gang in The Purge definitely had good taste in horrible masks. (And in an amazing bit of casting work, the Polite Leader had almost exactly the same face underneath his mask, which made it extra terrifying.)

7. Dead William Shatner Mask

This is yet another one of those uncanny valley things. Michael’s mask is based over a human face, but it’s blank, baggy, wrong. And somehow, knowing it was based over a death mask made from William Shatner’s face for an episode of Star Trek makes everything much, much worse.

6. ChromeSkull

Laid to Rest is a terrible film. Its sequel is vaguely better, but not by much. But the mask is so incredibly cool-looking that it’s hard not to wish that wasn’t true. Look at it! It’s almost anatomically correct, but sort of distorted, and incredibly shiny. It’s definitely a mask to strike terror into your enemies with.

5. The Mask of Satan

Black Sunday is an incredibly stylish horror movie, and that style extends all the way to this amazing mask. It’s another one that you really wouldn’t want to try on, though; it’s got spikes on the inside, and is used to torture and kill accused witches. If you see someone wandering around wearing it, they’re already dead. Yikes.

4. Rabbit Mask

You’ve never seen a rabbit that looks like that, and you’d never want to. Frank’s rabbit mask is eerie, distorted, grotesque, and utterly unforgettable. Imagine seeing that looking back at you from the mirror. You’d never sleep again.

3. Machete Mask

Jason first donned a hockey mask in Friday The 13th Part III, but that was basically just a piece of sporting equipment. Accessorizing it with a massive knife upped the fear factor, but the mask itself just wasn’t that scary. Until Jason X, when a spaceship’s medical computer accidentally rebuilds the serial killer using his machete as a template. A mask made out of a massive knife? Yeah, that’s scary.

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2. Ghostface

It’s simple, striking, and kind of brilliant. Based loosely on Munch’s The Scream, and originally created by Fun World as a Halloween costume before Wes Craven nabbed it for Scream, it’s deceptively simple. It might only have black blobs for features, but it’s surprisingly expressive. (And it’s usually expressing “I’m going to kill you now.”)

1. Leatherface

There are so many things an aspiring murderer could choose to make their mask out of – plastic, wood, metal, or cloth, for instance. Even an off-the-peg number can be terrifying in the right circumstances. But the scariest material for mask-making has got to be human skin. It’s gross, it’s threatening, and yeah, there’s not much scarier than that. Bleurghhh.

Other scary masks that didn’t quite make the cut: The masks in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, the dolls from The Cabin in the Woods, the burlap sack from The Orphanage, the white mask from Eyes Without A Face, Hannibal Lecter’s muzzle from The Silence of the Lambs.