Scary Masks to frighten your family rigid

When in search of perfect Halloween fancy dress costumes, the ones that are going to just plain terrify the pants off everybody, making the difference between deep down primal screams and just giggles, are good old fashioned scary masks. This is because there are certain things that you can do with a scary mask that you can’t necessarily do with your normal face. Not unless you’re a professional makeup artist, that is! At a Halloween party, high quality latex scary masks can give you one hell of an entrance and really put you on the map. There’s just something so creepy about a realistic inhuman face that people just react with primitive fear responses whenever they find themselves confronting them.

An effective scary mask can either be simple or complex. Probably the scariest mask around is just a simple Jason Voorhees hockey mask from Friday 13th. In fact that mask is now associated as much with horror as it is with hockey and it is an icon for horror masks. Universal Fancy Dress has loads of elaborate and horrific designs of Halloween masks that are absolutely chilling. Masks like the Zombie Tongue mask or the Craky the Clown mask that are not necessarily recognisable from movies, but are still hellishly good!

The popular scary masks from horror movies are often very simple designs that are particularly scary simply because we’ve seen that same character in the film butchering or tormenting people for an hour and a half whilst we’ve peered through our fingers and asked if it’s all over yet. As I already mentioned, Jason Voorhees from Friday 13th is a very simple face mask but has been made one of the most popular Halloween costumes around. Michael Myers from Halloween wears just a plain white mask (although very dirty) but having seen it being worn by someone stalking and murdering teenagers, it gains a rather more horrifying context! A few other examples of some simple masks made particularly horrifying from films are: Ghostface from the Scream series; The Scarecrow from Batman Begins and the 3 killers’ masks from The Strangers.

There are loads of other Horror film fancy dress costume ideas around and in general they make for a brilliant Halloween outfit. Most scary movie costumes involve a mask and it’s a really fantastic way to capture the realistic look of the character from the film. Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elms St is an iconic horror movie villain but it’s very difficult to recreate his burnt skin without a mask. Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is another difficult character to do, but with a mask this too can be easily accomplished, and the effect is very scary.  And with the quality masks from Universal this effect is created with the minimum effort.

Scary clown masks are increasingly becoming one of the most popular themes for Halloween. For some reason this supposedly jolly, happy idea is a large source of terror for a lot of people and so, because of this, realistic scary clowns are an extremely popular Halloween fancy dress theme. Zombie masks are another particularly horrifying idea and a very popular theme, and so they should be; anybody who has seen Dawn of the Dead or even thought about the idea of a zombie apocalypse should be aware that walking dead people are a pretty disturbing prospect. Loads of cities have recognised this and organised Zombie Walks where as many people as can be rounded up take to the streets dressed as zombies in a festival style. It’s these situations that would be the perfect opportunity to break out a particularly scary zombie mask.

In order to be scary, a mask doesn’t necessarily have to cover the whole of your face. Some of the most successful styles of scary masks are just face masks that cover the front of your face and are held in place with elastic. Because these keep the shape of your face they tend to be much more realistic and creepy and they come in all sorts of designs with some of the best being our serial killer face masks that look horrid when put on! These styles also have the benefit of being considerably more comfortable than the full head masks. At Universal there is a full range of zombies, skeletons, clowns and other ghouls to choose from.

Although the mask is a very important part of a successful Halloween fancy dress outfit, in order to get a full and completely disturbing effect you need to back it up with a decent costume. What kind of costume often very much depends on the mask itself but there are a few general costumes that look wicked with a lot of the Ghouls, Zombies, Monsters and Skeletons. The Orange Guantanamo Bay prisoner jumpsuit, black and white convict outfit or a strait jacket costume are all excellent choices for most of the Halloween masks in order to give a crazed convict escapee image. A lot of the olde England style capes and robes are also very good outfits to go with Demon masks for a centuries old image. Also the grim reaper cloak gives a ‘not from this world’ look. For Zombies, obviously anything torn and bloodied looks amazing and the same can go for Werewolves. For a scary clown mask, naturally you will need a clown outfit that either doesn’t clash, or clashes horribly (depending on what effect you want to create!).
Universal Fancy Dress brings you are loads of different options and combinations of costume and mask to choose between, which makes it very easy to get a full Halloween outfit that is guaranteed to terrify and disgust!

At Universal Fancy Dress we specialise in a truly spectacular range of latex scary Halloween masks. We stock some of the scariest masks from the deepest darkest regions of the UK as well as from other recesses of human depravity around the world. We have a terrifying selection of ghouls, zombies, clowns, monsters, demons and other such scary creatures. Whatever you may be looking for, you certainly will not be disappointed and to go with our masks we have an equally horrifying range of costumes. Everything you may need to be the scariest being this Halloween. And for all those last minuters out there, we offer a next day delivery service to be sure that your costume arrives in time and just to make sure we are the best value on the market, we offer free standard delivery on all orders over £20. So for the scariest Halloween around just visit Universal Fancy Dress!