As horror fans, we’re lucky to have many different companies that cater to our every desire. Our toy shelves are stocked courtesy of NECA, our home video collections loaded with goodies thanks to Scream Factory, and our closets full of awesome t-shirts from Fright Rags. As for all things Halloween, Trick or Treat Studios has got us covered.
For the last several years, the company has been responsible for releasing the coolest Halloween masks the world has ever seen, most of them officially licensed and based on our favorite horror movies. Last year’s collection allowed you to become everyone from Victor Crowley to the shark from Jaws, and they’re going big again this year.
Halloween may still be several months away, but today here on Dread we preview the 2016 Trick or Treat Studios collection. Because it’s never too early to start getting into the Halloween spirit!
Every Rob Zombie movie to date has been turned into at least one Halloween mask, and Zombie’s upcoming film 31 is no exception. Though we still don’t yet have a release date, Trick or Treat Studios just put up for pre-order these two masks based on the film, depicting the characters Psycho Head (Lew Temple) and Schitzo Head (David Ury). Judging by appearances, they’re both guaranteed to become new horror icons – and welcome additions to Zombie’s roster of scary clowns with beards.
One of the only Rob Zombie characters who hasn’t yet been given his own mask is Dr. Satan, who popped up for a brief (but important) appearance in House of 1000 Corpses and was cut from The Devil’s Rejects. That changes this year, as Trick or Treat offers up the very first officially licensed mask of the terrifying character. The official Dr. Satan mask comes complete with a removable breathing mask, and it joins previous masks of fellow Firefly family members Captain Spaulding, Otis, and Tiny.
Trick or Treat Studios is all about giving their fans exactly what they want, and one of their most requested masks of all time finally comes to life this Halloween season. Despite the fact that countless Chucky masks have been made by various different companies over the years, one based on the classic Good Guy doll has never before been released, making this creepy offering the very first of its kind. The company previously released a Chucky mask based on sequel Bride of Chucky.
Trick ‘r Treat director Michael Dougherty created yet another brand new horror icon last year in the form of Krampus, based on the mythical Anti-Claus from Alpine folklore. Pulled directly from screen-used resin masters, provided by Weta Workshop, this hooded and horned mask allows you to become the Christmas monster or display him in your home, and he’ll be joined by masks based on two of the Dark Elves from the film: “Window-Peeper” and “Sheep-Cote Clod.”
Speaking of recent horror icons, the Sinister franchise brought Bughuul (aka Mr. Boogie) into our collective nightmares back in 2012, and he returned to the big screen last year to make some more creepy home movies. This Halloween, Trick or Treat Studios presents the very first Bughuul mask, which is a direct recreation of the actual screen-used mask worn by actor Nicholas King in both films. Throw on a black suit and voila, you’re ready to abduct children and make them do your bidding.
In recent years, Trick or Treat Studios has released a couple different Evil Dead 2 Halloween masks, and they continue the franchise love this year with these two based on Starz’ “Ash vs. Evil Dead.” The series, which premiered last Halloween, introduced us to all sorts of new Deadites, and the masks allow you to become and/or display two of the most memorable: Eligos, who literally leapt off the pages of the Necronomicon, and Vivian, Ash’s friendly trailer park neighbor who got real ugly and real mean.
Fans of Lucio Fulci’s Italian horror classic Zombie were treated to a Halloween mask based on the film’s “Worm-Eyed Zombie” last year, and Trick or Treat beefs up the Fulci collection this year with one depicting the equally memorable “Boat Zombie.” This particular zombie was seen early on in the movie, and his name is derived from the fact that, well, he brutally attacked a police officer on a boat. He was played by the late Arthur J. Haggerty, and is officially credited in the film as “Fat Boat Zombie.”
One of the 2016 Halloween season’s most unique offerings is this replica of Be Something Studios’ “Fantome” mask from the 1980s, which you may remember from Friday the 13th: Part 2. In the film, Ted (played by Stu Charno) wears one of the masks to scare his fellow camp counselors, and they haven’t been produced since Be Something Studios became Zagone Studios back in the ’90s. Thanks to a partnership between Trick or Treat and Zagone, they’re coming back. How cool is that?!
Horror movie imagery doesn’t get much more iconic than the fully zombified/decayed face of Jack Goodman in An American Werewolf in London, which was sculpted and applied to actor Griffin Dunne by the legendary Rick Baker. Now YOU can become undead Jack thanks to this incredibly detailed mask, which was officially approved by Baker himself. Trick or Treat Studios previously released three different masks of American Werewolf‘s nightmare demons, along with one of the titular wolf.
Which of these masks will you be picking up this year? Let us know!
