If horror movies have taught us anything, it's that nothing terrifies quite like a great mask — a fact confirmed once again by the lunatic fiends of the Ethan Hawke-headlined home-invasion ...

The expressionless mask that star Lon Chaney dons for the first half of the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera is creepy in its own right, but when it’s eventually removed by Mary Philbin’s ...

Considering that masks have been around since at least 7000 BC, its safe to say that our collective fears of masks predates the likes of Leatherface, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers.

The grotesque mask from the 2012 horror movie “Smiley” (left) recalls the smiley emoticon. It’s well-matched to the movie’s theme, about a killer who can be summoned via the internet to ...

The Influence of a Simple Mask Georges Franju never considered Eyes Without a Face a horror film. The first English-language showing of Eyes Without a Face was on Halloween in 2003.