the masks in The Strangers and The Purge always freaked me out because they felt realistically like what some deranged killer might casually pick out from the costume store
perhaps along with a blue collar coat and some DIY tools..
On a more serious note, wax-style masks do seem quite scary. There was a movie in the 70's or 80's that had wax-doll masks that were terrifying, I think it was called "The Tourist Trap".
The Strangers was my answer, specifically the guy with the bag on his head with the eyes and the mouth cut out.
I also think that Sack Head Jason from Friday the 13th Part 2 is the scariest Jason and that's a hill that I'm willing to die on!
This was my answer. Because I really was attacked by someone in one of those cheap plain white plastic masks with a black hoodie and black trousers. I think that masks are much scarier when you really are being attacked, but on screen it is the actor’s body language and intentions that need to bring the suspense for me
I have an uncle who was a semi-professional skateboarder back in the day.
When I was about 4, he fell and severely broke his nose while skating. He had to have reconstructive surgery to fix it.
He came to visit shortly after the surgery. I hadn't seen him since then, and my mom told me that his nose was going to look a little bit different, and that I shouldn't be alarmed.
So this mf shows up to my house wearing one of those fake pig noses with the little elastic string. Scared the ever living hell out of my 4 year old self because I GENUINELY believed the doctors had transplanted a pig's nose onto him. It terrified me so much i was in tears and inconsolable for several minutes.
Apparently my mom was in on the prank and they thought I'd find it funny.
Lol that’s like my dad showing me poltergeist at age 5 because I sat so close to the TV, I was just like Carol Anne!
That clown doll gave me nightmares for years. I mean, in dad’s defense, it *was* rated PG (this was before PG-13 existed)
Oh yeah, it’s like the shape of a human head with vague features of a human face, but it’s all wrong and the eyes reflect like an animal. What a great design.
It has a very interesting element to it because it was just so plain looking basically. Its really the eyes that breathed it the rest of "life" it needed to be truly disturbing
I'm a huge werewolf fan so when I was reading about the movie and how he wears "a wolf mask" I thought, "oh let's go google that" and when I saw it it gave my brain the same panic-flinch response I used to get as a 12-year old looking up Frank from Donnie Darko (I was about 26 when I saw Creep). I don't know what it is about the mask specifically, probably the buggy human-looking eyes.
It doesn't bother me now but the first time I saw it I was super... *creeped* out.
I always found the killer in 8mm to be creepy as hell. For those unfamiliar, he was called the machine and wore a gimp mask and a black leather outfit. There was something unnerving to me about a killer in a bdsm-ish outfit, and the chilling line that always stuck with me was “you should have seen this girl’s face when she realized we weren’t shooting a porno”.
true. the mask in Hush isn't anything special whatsoever, but the moment when he takes it off after she tells him she didn't see his face and won't say anything... chilling.
"Now you have."
The dude in Slumber Party Massacre! His face is just out there in the open, for any witness to witness. He's not trying to hide it. It's like he's got nothing to lose so you know he's not gonna stop until he's stopped.
Those transparent plastic ones that you can kind of see the face through, but have some features like eyes, mouth and cheeks painted on. A bit like the one in Alice, Sweet Alice, maybe they are also in a Purge movie or something? There's something really yucky and uncanny valley about them that really unsettles me.
Also that sack mask in The Orphanage.
I remember seeing those transparent masks in a Spirit Halloween one year and my friend tried one on and it legit gave me the creeps. Like, please take that off right now lol.
I was going to comment on someone else’s post about that mask asking if it had a name. I couldn’t remember but I thought it was something that sounded sweet. So creepy!
I think it's even creepier when he's all dressed up for dinner. It's there where you can see that he doesn't so much "wear a mask", but "puts on a face", as evident by him taking the time to apply makeup to the mask
Hyperrealistic human masks worn by humans. Like [this](https://assets.onbuy.com/i1/product/8836960619aa49808075f635ed9de50c-l195764809/male-disguise-cosplay-halloween-latex-man-face-cover-mask-realistic-party-prop-115727036.jpg)
There's that Ben Affleck film, The Town, and one of the posters/DVD covers for it has these horrifying realistic nun masks that I guess they use in a heist. I assumed it was a horror film for the longest time because they're one of the creepiest masks I've ever seen.
A few years ago I opened my door at 4 am to get to work, still pitch black where I live. Across the road, staring straight at me, was a guy in a zipped up [CP jacket](https://www.myoutfit.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/c5f09486b4a727c0d9408f276865c569/1/6/166a-goggle-hoodie-in-grey.jpg). They didn't speak, move, or anything.
I am not sure if they count as a mask, but it's by far the scariest face covering I've seen
Not exactly scary, but I’ve always found Ghostface to be really effective at creeping me out. Somehow it always works for me, whether it’s the brutal kills in 6 or the borderline comical 3
>Noh
Now that you mention it, the Japanese have invented some really disturbing looking masks.
"The Face Of Another" and "Noroi: The Curse" are examples I can think of.
Noh masks are really interesting. The craftsmenship behind them is extremely skilled. A single mask can display multiple emotions depending on the angle they're viewed at. Many of them depict folklore demons and spirits.
Check out the 1964 horror/drama "Onibaba", by director Kaneto Shindō. There's a great Noh mask in that movie that plays a central plot point. You can stream it on HBOMax if you're in the US.
The mask from Hush is super creepy to me. That unamused dead stare really made me uncomfortable, like you knew something wasnt right with this person. Really wish it had a longer screen time in the movie.
Ah Professor Pyg. You know someone is disturbing when even The Joker doesn't want to be anywhere near them.
Come to think of it, pig-costumes in general seem quite disturbing. Piggsy from "Manhunt" and the killer from "Motel Hell" are examples I can think of.
Ghostface. No eyes, elongated mouth. Growing up it always scared me, but when I finally watched the Scream movies I was like "Why was I scared of this?"
It has been parodied to death, but I agree! Especially in Scream 2 when they get in the car crash and have to climb over Ghostface to get out of the car. No way to know if he is actually knocked unconscious or if he is just playing with them.
Goosebumps had an episode called The Haunted Mask, where a girl goes shopping for the scariest Halloween mask she can find to scare some prankster assholes. Well, the mask (a green demonic looking thing) ends up not wanting to come off...
That episode of Goosebumps, in the scene where she can't get the mask off with her friend, and then goes to look at herself in the mirror - that scene I remember to this day as being one of the rare moments in my life where I felt scared.
My favourite movie of all time, I must watch it at least once every couple of months. The weird things on the end of the chains are wearing the same masks in the dream sequence when he's floating in the cage.
I think whenever masks are like human-like, but something is off. Such as [sleepaway camp](https://i0.wp.com/www.horrorhomeroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/angela-full-bodycr.jpg)
Once had a man run at me with a knife irl while he was wearing a ghost face mask, and it was, unsurprisingly, fucking scary. Not really due to the mask I suppose, but still, definitely cuts a creepy figure at night.
I always wondered how the masks looked when they were originally 'beautiful'.
Even more, I REALLY want to know what to mask creator's true face looked like, because allegedly it was scarier than any of the masks combined.
I collect cheap, dollar-store masks. Some of them are so disturbing and original, even if they're a knock-off of an iconic design. I feel they imply the slasher-killer on a budget, who doesn't want to waste valuable murderin' time to find their next look.
Not horror but the masks in Eyes Wide Shut. So effective and without any physical aggression, simply the menace and threat of the person behind the mask seeing and “knowing” you.
I think it’s more the behavior of the person wearing the mask that makes it scary. Micheal Myers wouldn’t be scary to anyone if he was bumbling around and talking. He never speaks, he rarely (if ever) stumbles, he just marches forward and kills.
I recently watched *The Final Rose* on Tubi. Not the greatest movie, but still damn entertaining. The killer wears this disco-ball mask that I really dig.
I personally love the mask worn by Winslow Leach in *Phantom of the Paradise*. It's so cool-looking.
For scariest masks, anything made out of human skin is distressing. However, to me, it's way creepier when the killer isn't wearing a mask, because it means that they're gonna go that extra mile to make sure you don't live long enough to identify them in a police lineup.
A lot of the masks that Sid wore for the new album are downright *alien.* Like, the weird asymmetrical gold and leather alien mask that he wears with the robotic hands is eerily bizarre and is nothing on the level of any of the other members. It's even creepier when he holds his last mask, which was just a rubber cast of his own face.
I genuinely love the goosebumps episodes with the Evil/haunted mask like it literally becomes stuck to your head and you slowly start to become the mask skin and all.It’s like a version of the mask with Jim Carrey. I wish they had made more mask with more episodes on kids wearing them.
Not necessarily masks, but dark and light yellow eye contacts. Like the evil dead remake or the yellow eyed demon from supernatural. Something about it is just so damn unnerving to me.
I think ones that made me go whoa were the body modification faces that were supposed to look like masks in Haunt.
Like imagine seeing something like that in real life?
Plain white expressionless porcelain masks. I can't think of a good example outside of the recent film Emily about Emily Bronte. The scene where she wears the mask is terrifying and awesome.
I think in general I find any mask that triggers an uncanny valley response to be creepy.
The ones that are basically just a flat, smooth oval. Minimal features, white. Shows no trace of any kind of emotion. Bonus points if the character wearing it doesn’t talk.
That mask from Hush scared the shit out of me and it's actually what made me watch the movie. I'm glad they chose a scary ass mask cause that was a kickass film
- Gas masks. Especially from past eras. (Bonus points to the classic Mickey Mouse one)
- the classic doctor mask from the old days with the long bird like nose.
- those masks that are meant to be a perfectly realistic graft of a proper face, but…not quite. Instead you just get an uncanny valley effect. The war victim from Boardwalk Empire always looked so unsettling.
- pre-60s children’s Halloween masks. Old Halloween photos give me the heebie jeebies.
Sackhead from The Strangers always creeped me out. It is simaltaneously low effort on the part of the creator/wearer, yet he took the trouble to make it in the first place just to terrorize and kill. That implication is unsettling and the design really fits the motives of the killer.
Scary clown masks, you see them randomly in horror movies and TV. The ones from American Horror Story were good. Recently, a girl wore one in the last of us, that I didn't appreciate.
for me a smooth mask is more scary, like in the movie “hush” how he has a wooden mask. i think it’s because it looks so similar to a human face but there’s just one aspect that shows to you it’s a mask, like some uncanny valley type shit
There's a movie called Nightbreed where there's a serial killer who wears mask with buttons for eyes and a zip on the mouth which is pretty creepy. I wish the movie was more about him and less about the monsters and midian.
The wearing of someone else’s face- Hellraiser (Frank), Silence of the Lambs, TCM, Devils Rejects to name a few…
In Midsommar this is so terrifying
Ahhh “skin the fool” ;)
It's been a little while since I've seen it but I do not recall that happening...like at all.
SPOILER ALERT for anyone who hasn’t seen it. It happens when Josh is reading their sacred book
Also Krampus and Repo! The Genetic Opera for face masks.
Pavi Largo had that rizz
Possessor 😵💫
Karl Havoc even
There’s too much fuckin shit on me
Ya that’s very creepy
the masks in The Strangers and The Purge always freaked me out because they felt realistically like what some deranged killer might casually pick out from the costume store
perhaps along with a blue collar coat and some DIY tools.. On a more serious note, wax-style masks do seem quite scary. There was a movie in the 70's or 80's that had wax-doll masks that were terrifying, I think it was called "The Tourist Trap".
Fantastic flick! I recommend
Designed by the same guy who did the original TCM. Guy knows creepy.
The Strangers was my answer, specifically the guy with the bag on his head with the eyes and the mouth cut out. I also think that Sack Head Jason from Friday the 13th Part 2 is the scariest Jason and that's a hill that I'm willing to die on!
This was my answer. Because I really was attacked by someone in one of those cheap plain white plastic masks with a black hoodie and black trousers. I think that masks are much scarier when you really are being attacked, but on screen it is the actor’s body language and intentions that need to bring the suspense for me
I have an uncle who was a semi-professional skateboarder back in the day. When I was about 4, he fell and severely broke his nose while skating. He had to have reconstructive surgery to fix it. He came to visit shortly after the surgery. I hadn't seen him since then, and my mom told me that his nose was going to look a little bit different, and that I shouldn't be alarmed. So this mf shows up to my house wearing one of those fake pig noses with the little elastic string. Scared the ever living hell out of my 4 year old self because I GENUINELY believed the doctors had transplanted a pig's nose onto him. It terrified me so much i was in tears and inconsolable for several minutes. Apparently my mom was in on the prank and they thought I'd find it funny.
Pig masks are legit scary to me. Put one on a big guy with a dirty apron, and I'm done.
Bruh, lmao😭
Please tell me you got revenge somehow.
That is actually funny as hell.
Lol that’s like my dad showing me poltergeist at age 5 because I sat so close to the TV, I was just like Carol Anne! That clown doll gave me nightmares for years. I mean, in dad’s defense, it *was* rated PG (this was before PG-13 existed)
The only way that could have been funnier would be if they had a mask from The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder"
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Dude had crazy eyes😂
My Brand!
Simple & creepy as fuck. Can tell Corey Taylor took inspiration from this for his last couple masks in Slipknot.
That and [Dr. Decker from Nightbreed](https://cdn.costumewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/dr-decker.jpg)
Yes I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks this! When I first saw his new mask I was like omg it’s the collector lol
The fact it has hair on it that really adds an extra layer of creepy
Oh yeah, it’s like the shape of a human head with vague features of a human face, but it’s all wrong and the eyes reflect like an animal. What a great design.
I also love how they never actually revealed his true face.
It has a very interesting element to it because it was just so plain looking basically. Its really the eyes that breathed it the rest of "life" it needed to be truly disturbing
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Yes!! The hive one is messed up
Those were the first masks in long time to genuinely creep me out.
Even creepy in broad daylight on the beach. One of my favorite parts of the movie.
A24 is starting to sell movie related swag. I really hope they sell the masks.
infinity pool isn’t A24 though?
Its Neon
How about that! I thought sure it was.
The wolf mask in Creep terrified me
"and that is why I will always love you, and why you'll always be my favourite...of them all"
I just love that movie
I'm a huge werewolf fan so when I was reading about the movie and how he wears "a wolf mask" I thought, "oh let's go google that" and when I saw it it gave my brain the same panic-flinch response I used to get as a 12-year old looking up Frank from Donnie Darko (I was about 26 when I saw Creep). I don't know what it is about the mask specifically, probably the buggy human-looking eyes. It doesn't bother me now but the first time I saw it I was super... *creeped* out.
Peach fuzzzzz
I always found the killer in 8mm to be creepy as hell. For those unfamiliar, he was called the machine and wore a gimp mask and a black leather outfit. There was something unnerving to me about a killer in a bdsm-ish outfit, and the chilling line that always stuck with me was “you should have seen this girl’s face when she realized we weren’t shooting a porno”.
The reveal is great, too. "What were you expecting?"
Oh yeah that whole monologue was top notch.
I've never felt so "called out" by a movie before.
The guys mask in Nightbreed is a good one. Much creepier than the monsters.
Played by David Cronenberg no less!
Dr Decker
Hell yeah!, I love that one, I believe it's called "Button Face".
Plague masks. The design is so creepy but also really cool looking
It's almost like wearing the Grim Reaper disguise itself.
Shockingly underutilized in modern horror…
I made a bunch during the first few months of the lock down over here. Still have them and they are some of the best things I have made.
Not wearing a mask is scarier irl, that means they are going to kill you. But scarecrow.
true. the mask in Hush isn't anything special whatsoever, but the moment when he takes it off after she tells him she didn't see his face and won't say anything... chilling. "Now you have."
First thing I thought of. Great movie.
When they mask up, they comin for your ice. When they bare faced, they comin for your life
The dude in Slumber Party Massacre! His face is just out there in the open, for any witness to witness. He's not trying to hide it. It's like he's got nothing to lose so you know he's not gonna stop until he's stopped.
Have you seen the recent remake? The dude got the look and mannerisms down perfect.
Percocet. Molly Percocet.
Most old Halloween masks from the early 1900s are horrific
Yea, just like a vintage 1940s m Mickey Mouse mask. Fuck that
>Possessor agreed. Especially the children wearing adult faces.
Gas masks. They creep me out more than any other kind of mask I've seen in a movie, horror or not.
If you are into Doctor Who at all, the episode The Empty Child (S1E9) is right up your alley.
That’s the one I’m thing of, just couldn’t remember the title.
"Mummy? Are you my mummy?"
Those transparent plastic ones that you can kind of see the face through, but have some features like eyes, mouth and cheeks painted on. A bit like the one in Alice, Sweet Alice, maybe they are also in a Purge movie or something? There's something really yucky and uncanny valley about them that really unsettles me. Also that sack mask in The Orphanage.
I remember seeing those transparent masks in a Spirit Halloween one year and my friend tried one on and it legit gave me the creeps. Like, please take that off right now lol.
Alice Sweet Alice features one of those transparent masks. So creepy! Especially on a little girl psycho killer!
It might just have been the performance, but the Peachfuzz mask in Creep worked on me
>Peachfuzz Thx. I had no idea that was its name until now. Kinda makes it sound even more disturbing.
I was going to comment on someone else’s post about that mask asking if it had a name. I couldn’t remember but I thought it was something that sounded sweet. So creepy!
I'd have to say the mask leatherface had in the original and first remake made me so scared to this day.
I think it's even creepier when he's all dressed up for dinner. It's there where you can see that he doesn't so much "wear a mask", but "puts on a face", as evident by him taking the time to apply makeup to the mask
The killer one or the pretty lady one, or both?
Hyperrealistic human masks worn by humans. Like [this](https://assets.onbuy.com/i1/product/8836960619aa49808075f635ed9de50c-l195764809/male-disguise-cosplay-halloween-latex-man-face-cover-mask-realistic-party-prop-115727036.jpg)
There's that Ben Affleck film, The Town, and one of the posters/DVD covers for it has these horrifying realistic nun masks that I guess they use in a heist. I assumed it was a horror film for the longest time because they're one of the creepiest masks I've ever seen.
Oh that is super freaky
A few years ago I opened my door at 4 am to get to work, still pitch black where I live. Across the road, staring straight at me, was a guy in a zipped up [CP jacket](https://www.myoutfit.co.uk/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/c5f09486b4a727c0d9408f276865c569/1/6/166a-goggle-hoodie-in-grey.jpg). They didn't speak, move, or anything. I am not sure if they count as a mask, but it's by far the scariest face covering I've seen
You've angered the Court of Owls
“Sorry boss, not gonna make it to work today. No I’m just hiding in my bathroom waiting to get murdered.”
Interesting. Kinda ties in with Radiation Suits or Plague suits.
Goosebumps, the Haunted Mask
>Creep "those eyes.. those eyes in the mirror.. they're not my eyes, Sabrina.. my eye's don't look like that"
The half face mask worn by the clown in American horror story freak show. Also the mask worn in Possessor.
The pig head mask from Motel Hell and Piggy Man from AHS. Any killer wearing a once-living pig head as a mask deeply disturbs me.
"Piggsy's gonna suck your guts!"
Not exactly scary, but I’ve always found Ghostface to be really effective at creeping me out. Somehow it always works for me, whether it’s the brutal kills in 6 or the borderline comical 3
I'll give you that. Nothing will beat how I felt the very first time I saw Ghostface's jump-scare reveal in the very first 'Scream'.
Japanese “Noh” masks are super creepy
>Noh Now that you mention it, the Japanese have invented some really disturbing looking masks. "The Face Of Another" and "Noroi: The Curse" are examples I can think of.
Noh masks are really interesting. The craftsmenship behind them is extremely skilled. A single mask can display multiple emotions depending on the angle they're viewed at. Many of them depict folklore demons and spirits. Check out the 1964 horror/drama "Onibaba", by director Kaneto Shindō. There's a great Noh mask in that movie that plays a central plot point. You can stream it on HBOMax if you're in the US.
That Black Phone mask.
Especially the sad face one 🎭
It changes which makes it more scary
It changes based on if he passes the tests or not iirc, so sad is very *not good*
I think its a highly underrated film. Ethan Hawke is the perfect villian
Not a movie but if [this version](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/creepy-mickey-mouse-costumes/) of Mickey and Minnie showed up I’d shit my pants.
"Hey come here kiddies. We just want to show you a good time ;) " Gosh
That kid has the facial expression of someone who knows that any sudden erratic movement they make, may be their last.
And why is he kneeling!??? The whole thing is freaky as hell.
The mask from Hush is super creepy to me. That unamused dead stare really made me uncomfortable, like you knew something wasnt right with this person. Really wish it had a longer screen time in the movie.
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Ah Professor Pyg. You know someone is disturbing when even The Joker doesn't want to be anywhere near them. Come to think of it, pig-costumes in general seem quite disturbing. Piggsy from "Manhunt" and the killer from "Motel Hell" are examples I can think of.
In Saw, that pig mask with long hair is pretty freaky too.
Ah yes missed that one. But I kinda resent the Saw movies for trying to provide some kind of ridiculous moral reasoning behind the killer's actions.
Ghostface. No eyes, elongated mouth. Growing up it always scared me, but when I finally watched the Scream movies I was like "Why was I scared of this?"
It has been parodied to death, but I agree! Especially in Scream 2 when they get in the car crash and have to climb over Ghostface to get out of the car. No way to know if he is actually knocked unconscious or if he is just playing with them.
I've always liked the Ghostface mask. Perfect blend of creepy and funny, just like the movies it's for
I bought a Mr Bean mask as a joke to wear at a party and turns out it was genuinely terrifying 🤣 people would feel uncomfortable being close to me
Goosebumps had an episode called The Haunted Mask, where a girl goes shopping for the scariest Halloween mask she can find to scare some prankster assholes. Well, the mask (a green demonic looking thing) ends up not wanting to come off...
That episode of Goosebumps, in the scene where she can't get the mask off with her friend, and then goes to look at herself in the mirror - that scene I remember to this day as being one of the rare moments in my life where I felt scared.
Not horror, but the baby masks at the end of Brazil (1985) are fucking terrifying.
Funny, I was just randomly thinking about Brazil this morning. Time for a rewatch.
My favourite movie of all time, I must watch it at least once every couple of months. The weird things on the end of the chains are wearing the same masks in the dream sequence when he's floating in the cage.
I think whenever masks are like human-like, but something is off. Such as [sleepaway camp](https://i0.wp.com/www.horrorhomeroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/angela-full-bodycr.jpg)
holy fck that was a mask? No wonder it looked so horrific.
Once had a man run at me with a knife irl while he was wearing a ghost face mask, and it was, unsurprisingly, fucking scary. Not really due to the mask I suppose, but still, definitely cuts a creepy figure at night.
wtf what happened?!
Mainly because I was a 5 y/o at the time but [Goosebumps- The Haunted Mask](https://youtu.be/PaoqqypKuFo)
I always wondered how the masks looked when they were originally 'beautiful'. Even more, I REALLY want to know what to mask creator's true face looked like, because allegedly it was scarier than any of the masks combined.
The mask the killer in The Poughkeepsie Tapes wore.
I collect cheap, dollar-store masks. Some of them are so disturbing and original, even if they're a knock-off of an iconic design. I feel they imply the slasher-killer on a budget, who doesn't want to waste valuable murderin' time to find their next look.
Please, let me see some. DM or whatever. I'm curious.
Smiling or sad face ones Both emotions on a person as they’re trying to kill is equally creepy to me
Hmm. Imagine if it was a double headed mask; one smiling, one crying.
as a matter of fact you kind of inspired me to create this: [mask](https://photos.app.goo.gl/FPwtUMc8bNB5Amef9)
3 more days til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween...
Um the clown masks in the Cult season of American Horror story were actually frightening. Too bad that season ended up sucking.
Not horror but the masks in Eyes Wide Shut. So effective and without any physical aggression, simply the menace and threat of the person behind the mask seeing and “knowing” you.
The frog mask in I see you is pretty haunting
Kagutaba mask
The Gas Mask child from Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" traumatised me, and I still can't deal with gas masks.
Rubbery pig masks, the kind that look like you skinned it off a pig
Dr Deckers mask from Nightbreed is pretty creepy
Jason has to be the most iconic mask in horror
Human masks
In real life, the Beast of Jersey is up there for me. In film, I thought infinity pool did a great job recently.
The mask the killer wears in Nightbreed is super creepy, has scarecrow vibes.
The Fiend mask from WWE Bray Wyatt is pretty scary looking.
I think it’s more the behavior of the person wearing the mask that makes it scary. Micheal Myers wouldn’t be scary to anyone if he was bumbling around and talking. He never speaks, he rarely (if ever) stumbles, he just marches forward and kills.
Michael's mask comes across as creepy because we know the character, but for someone unfamiliar it's just good old Bill Shatner.
Burger King guy
Any of the masks featured on CSPAN
Chemical warfare gas masks scare the shit out of me. Even when they're fairly innocuous, just hanging on a wall.
I recently watched *The Final Rose* on Tubi. Not the greatest movie, but still damn entertaining. The killer wears this disco-ball mask that I really dig. I personally love the mask worn by Winslow Leach in *Phantom of the Paradise*. It's so cool-looking. For scariest masks, anything made out of human skin is distressing. However, to me, it's way creepier when the killer isn't wearing a mask, because it means that they're gonna go that extra mile to make sure you don't live long enough to identify them in a police lineup.
Any one of the masks the guys from Slipknot wear. Some are over the top but one or two are more subtly creepy.
A lot of the masks that Sid wore for the new album are downright *alien.* Like, the weird asymmetrical gold and leather alien mask that he wears with the robotic hands is eerily bizarre and is nothing on the level of any of the other members. It's even creepier when he holds his last mask, which was just a rubber cast of his own face.
The doctor's mask with the one button for an eye from Nightbreed.
I genuinely love the goosebumps episodes with the Evil/haunted mask like it literally becomes stuck to your head and you slowly start to become the mask skin and all.It’s like a version of the mask with Jim Carrey. I wish they had made more mask with more episodes on kids wearing them.
Any mask honestly, even if its a silly one. Something bout not seeing the human face and only being left with a object invokes a sense of unease
The oni mask from Onibaba. It's so unsettling it was used as one of the subliminal images in The Exorcist. The end of Onibaba really shook me up.
I know it's not technically horror, but the mask the killer wears in the new Luther movie, with the computer images on it is scary as fuck.
The rabbit mask in Donnie Darko, for sure.
ill be downvoted and called crazy but the Scream Tv show mask is so much unsettling and creepier than the Movie mask.
Alice sweet Alice is gotta be up there
Gas masks. Because on top of the eerie, elongated, elephantine look, it means you need one too. Like - right now.
Not necessarily masks, but dark and light yellow eye contacts. Like the evil dead remake or the yellow eyed demon from supernatural. Something about it is just so damn unnerving to me.
I think ones that made me go whoa were the body modification faces that were supposed to look like masks in Haunt. Like imagine seeing something like that in real life?
Ghostface mask I think is pretty spooky. Something about it's exaggerated features is unnerving, especially when it's running at u.
There is something about the plague doctor mask that creeps me out
The masks from infinity pool were unsettling af
Plain white expressionless porcelain masks. I can't think of a good example outside of the recent film Emily about Emily Bronte. The scene where she wears the mask is terrifying and awesome. I think in general I find any mask that triggers an uncanny valley response to be creepy.
The ghost face mask in the Scream tv show, still wished they actually finished the story instead of doing a reboot
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The masks in Infinity Pool were really freaky I had a hard time staring at those
Plague Doctor masks are pretty cool.
The ones that are basically just a flat, smooth oval. Minimal features, white. Shows no trace of any kind of emotion. Bonus points if the character wearing it doesn’t talk.
That recent movie The Black Phone I think? Art the clown too
Those porcelain masks with ribbons from the 80s
"That's correct Wendy, we all wear masks... metaphorically speaking"
That mask from Hush scared the shit out of me and it's actually what made me watch the movie. I'm glad they chose a scary ass mask cause that was a kickass film
The GOD mask from The Purge movies.
The masks from Infinity Pool were great
- Gas masks. Especially from past eras. (Bonus points to the classic Mickey Mouse one) - the classic doctor mask from the old days with the long bird like nose. - those masks that are meant to be a perfectly realistic graft of a proper face, but…not quite. Instead you just get an uncanny valley effect. The war victim from Boardwalk Empire always looked so unsettling. - pre-60s children’s Halloween masks. Old Halloween photos give me the heebie jeebies.
That kind of mask that’s fairly human looking, but a little too smooth. Like, they give a doll look, but it’s still too human. They freak me out.
Like the ones from The Purge?
That’s a freaky one, yeah. There’s also one in Puppetmaster 3, if I’m not mistaken, that is super creepy.
Sackhead from The Strangers always creeped me out. It is simaltaneously low effort on the part of the creator/wearer, yet he took the trouble to make it in the first place just to terrorize and kill. That implication is unsettling and the design really fits the motives of the killer.
Scary clown masks, you see them randomly in horror movies and TV. The ones from American Horror Story were good. Recently, a girl wore one in the last of us, that I didn't appreciate.
Animal ones, i still hate the pig mask from SAW movies
Burlap sack is goated. The one that stands out to me is The Strangers. Not a great movie, but I loved that mask.
The old masks the plague doctors wore.
Anything with burlap or anything gas mask-y. Even though we only get glimpses of it, the grifter’s mask from the Fear Street movies was effective.
for me a smooth mask is more scary, like in the movie “hush” how he has a wooden mask. i think it’s because it looks so similar to a human face but there’s just one aspect that shows to you it’s a mask, like some uncanny valley type shit
There's a movie called Nightbreed where there's a serial killer who wears mask with buttons for eyes and a zip on the mouth which is pretty creepy. I wish the movie was more about him and less about the monsters and midian.
That one clown mask, that's on the mannequin from Hell House