Face Your Fears

Often, when I'm doing my general search through eBay for new masks to cover on this blog, I'll run across something that really shouldn't exist for any real good reason. Usually I simply ignore these and continue scrolling, but I think at this point it's time to talk about what a prevalent issue this has become in the mask world, because my god is it overwhelming me. I've dubbed these types of masks The Masked Terror, and, unfortunately, they are not a badass vigilante group fighting the injustice of the government. Instead, they're merely a collection of masks that terrify and confuse the hell out of us all, and I don't think I should have to suffer alone with this anymore, so I'm taking you with me. Think of this as a sort of "Vintage Mask Roundup" or that one post I did about all the variants of horse masks ( "The Necessary To Cry Coral" ), because it's obviously not a normal post where I just focus on one mask, but instead a s...

Look, sometimes a title is too good to pass up, okay? Sometimes you just have to do something for the joke. And the moment I saw this high-ass Frankenstein's Monster, I knew that was what I was going to do. I'm nothing if not willing to commit to bits. This isn't the first Frankenstein's Monster type mask to wind up on this blog, but it's definitely the one that most fits the criteria of what a Frankenstein's Monster should be or is what we would easily recognize as one. But, just because he fits neatly into a little easily categorized box doesn't mean he's not worth talking about! I mean, just look at him, he's well sculpted, well colored and high as fuck dude. Seriously though, the colors and sculpting on this thing are tremendous. The wrinkles, the various linework, the little pimples, the faded bloody scar over his lips and the smear of blood along his scalp, his smokey eyes with that bright yellow color, all matched with that tinted green/grey m...

I feel like something was lost in translation somewhere along the lines with the making of this mask. Someone in the creative team, probably George, thought "You know what would be neat? A vampire bat!" and then went to tell someone in the art department, probably Craig, who thought he meant quite literally a Vampire with a bat on his face. Look, I know Vampires turn into bats, and I know that Craig has only been working here for like a week, but seriously, how do you screw that up that badly? In fact, I'm more than willing to bet that Craig here is also responsible for the man with a spider on his face . Remember that post? I can just see these two being a double header (no pun intended) together at some cheap knock off Halloween costume shop that badly wants to be Spirit but can't afford to be Spirit. So instead they buy masks like this, and call themselves "Soul" because that's kind of like Spirit. Look the owner's doing his best, okay? His daugh...