Face Your Fears

"It's not a fad, mom and dad, it's a lifestyle!" And thus began the story of Punk Booooster, the scariest punk rocker this side of the afterlife. Countless women were dazzled by not only his musical but also sexual prowess, and he very quickly shot up to the top of the charts of Hell's Hot 100. You know, horror and rock and rock are very closely entwined. In the 80s, there was a plethora of horror movies literally built around heavy metal music and or certain bands. And even in all the films that weren't, the soundtracks often featured rock music. Imagery in rock and roll is often tied closely to that of the occult. Skeletons, satan, etc. So it really comes as no surprise to me that when it came to designing Halloween masks, someone eventually stumbled onto the "I'll do both at once!" model. Frankly, if anything, I'm actually more surprised it hasn't been done more often. And this mask is a great example of doing it right. It's not re...

Man, isn't it just, like, so totally bogus how parents just don't understand? They don't get our fashion, they don't get our music, and they sure as heck don't get the pressure put on us to fit in! It's like, no, it's not a phase, it's who I am! You do one little thing, like grow an ugly beard and put the skull of a smurf in it and they fly off the handle. They just don't understand. And god forbid you try and execute people in your personal space, it's like MOM GET OUT OF MY ROOM. Seriously though, this is the definition of edgelord in the mask world, as far as I'm concerned. But even edgelords have their worth, we can't deny that, and even in the case of this edgy as hell mask, there's a lot to admire here, like, for example, how goddamned ridiculous the whole thing is. Even with a concept as visually over the top as this one is, I can't deny that it's certainly got attitude and style and originality. This is like if a fanta...

I have to admit something, and that is that I don't think I've ever seen - in the history of people putting faces on crescent moons - a skull instead of a face on one. Why has that never been done before now? Hell, it seems like a fairly obvious idea, and yet I can't think of a single instance in which it's ever been done before this mask. Maybe it has and I'm simply uninformed. I've been wrong about stuff before, so it's a possibility, but even still, why isn't this concept more prominent within the horror community as a whole? Makes no sense. Well, here's to you mask sculptor, you've made one hell of an iconic design here. Sadly, however, the concept only lets you go so far with it. You're still stuck within a very strict visual perimeter that you must adhere to. An interesting visual is only as good as its dimensions allow it to be, and when you're stuck working with something that's based on a crescent moon, something really only ...