Research on Masks

For our opening we have decided to have our serial killer wear a mask during his brutual incidents, we have come to the concltion that wearing a mask will create more of a sense of mystery and will have the audience guessing who is behind it and why he is wearing the mask.


For years in the film industry masks have been used in horror films and have been worn by a mennacing attacker of some sort, it makes the audience want to know exactly what they are facing. A mask takes that ability away and in many cases, a horror movie mask makes it impossible to tell if the attacker is someone known, or a complete stranger. The mystery drags the audience deeper into the horror film to see if they are able to find out who, or what is behind the mask


Examples of masks used in horror films:

Halloween (1978)

This mask was used in this movie to make it seem to the audience that the face has no emotion or remorse to what he does.





















Friday the 13th (1980)

This character wears a hockey mask to show part of his past as he used to play this when he was a child, this also has no real emotion so shows the character as a cold blooded murderer.
















Scream (1996)

The ghost face mask is used as a disguise to

conceal their identity while conducting serial murders. The facial expression is very twisted and in a way reflects the looks of terror on the victims faces.






















SAW (2004)

The pig mask was used to conceal the identity of the workers and create suspence as the audience do not know who is abducting the victims until the mask is removed.