Face Your Fears

If I had to pick something that looked like it ate nightmares and shat fear, I think I'd pick this damn thing. I mean, just look at this guy. The level of detail only lends credence to his terrifying demeanor. This looks like the sort of thing that would show up at the foot of your bed to suck your soul out of your nose in the dead of night. Some sort of hybrid between a bug eyed insect and some sort of alien, The Nightmare Eater is an absolutely masterful piece of work in mask creation. Let's talk about his primary features first, shall we? Those eyes are obviously what you're instantly drawn to, and it's understandable why. Like gazing into Disco Balls of doom, they're hypnotic and otherworldly. Bubbled and smooth, they look as if just catching even a remote glance of them would kill you on the spot. What really sets his eyes aflame, however, are the perfectly manufactured creases in what I can only call his brow area. The lines that were sculpted around the eye a...

    Glory to Glaxnar. If there's something floating somewhere in the ethereal boundless openness that is space, it's probably Glaxnar The Great All Seeing Eye. And I don't just say that because of the expertly well placed nebula background the seller used for these photos. I say that because Glaxnar really does just look like something one would encounter if the furthest reaches of space. Something similar to ourselves, yet so different that we can't fathom what he is, precisely, and thusly he terrifies us to our very core. I've covered one or two other cyclops masks on this blog, but I'm not gonna lie, Glaxnar is by far the single greatest cyclops design I've ever seen, mask form or otherwise. I love the Frankensteinesque appearance he's got of having been sewn back together to complete a face. A face, however, that seems to be missing all its other vital faceisms and is now only home to that of a giant, bulging eyeball. Perfection, quite frankly. The s...

Not every mask can be a serpent demon from the bowels of hell. Some are gonna just look like normal people with giant foreheads, such as our good friend David, from accounting, here. I love this mask because it's so...normal? There's almost nothing spectacular about it, and yet that's what makes it spectacular. I like to imagine that this guy, David (from accounting), is just a normal dude with a normal life and job. He just happens to have an enormous wrinkly forehead. But he doesn't let that stop him from living his dream! Which apparently is accounting. I love the dark tone given to this, and I especially love the wide nose and the black circles around the eyes (which I can only assume is from all the crying he does every night because he's an accountant). David - from accounting - seems to have what appears to be a cold sore on his lip, and he's slowly starting to bald, but hey, these are things lots of people deal with, which only makes him all the more rel...

I'm fairly certain this is the face that greets you once you die. Some call him God. Others call him Xenu. I, myself, call him Prickly Bill. No real reason other than he looks like a Prickly Bill. Either way, no matter what name you subscribe to, Prickly Bill is one thing, and that's thrilled to see you. Just look at that smile on his face; those big buck teeth bulging from his gums! He's absolutely happy you've decided to spend the evening wearing his face over your face and thus granting him access to our mere mortal world, even if only ever briefly. His eyes are even bulging because he can't believe he's gotten so lucky to have your generosity to thank for being given a little while to linger in our universe over your head. Prickly Bill looks terrifying, but looks aren't everything, you know? He looks terrifying, sure, but deep down, is the god we should all seek to revere; a god of simultaneous beauty and disgust, a god of love and curiosity, a god ...

Before Doug Jones made it cool to want to openly fuck humanoid fish people, fishophiles had to live in fear, secluded to their hollywood homes, their careers stalled while they continued shutting down rumors of their love of the animals dwelling in the sea. It's okay Troy McClure, we still love you. But now that it's apparently totally fine to say you want to sleep with The Creature From The Black Lagoon, let's explore that a bit more with this fine mask, whom I'm named Grubby. He just looks like a Grubby, you know? This is actually a fairly decently made mask, upon first glance. The scales on the throat, that wild eye design mixed with a weirdly out of place and yet acceptable human nose, along with the tiny barnacles growing on his head and the wild Bozo The Clown hair, this thing's got it goin' on. And I don't mean that in a sexual way. I am not one of the women who wants to fuck fish creatures. I'm more of a lesbian werewolf kind of person. Ei...

There's absolutely no way to categorize this type of mask, so I have just come up with the categorization of putting this mask, and all masks that fall into the look a like of it, as "mother fucking awesome". Because this thing is mother fucking awesome. I mean, back before Halloween became nothing but licensed franchised superhero costumes and cosplays of all kinds, this is what you did. Companies had to actually try and make an effort to get your attention, and we got some great shit because of it. And look, I'm not going to look down on anyone who cosplays, because those people have tremendous talent and are better than a lot of actual costume designers in Hollywood I'd say, but I do miss when Halloween was more of a "I'm a bug eyed chainsaw armed mummy" and not "I wore my Shazam costume again this year." Not that there's anything at all wrong with Shazam, it was a great movie, but come on man. Bug eyed chainsaw armed mummy sounds...