Clowns can be creepy enough on their own, but American Horror Story repeatedly made them downright terrifying.

From meticulous artistry to pure dumb luck, the origins of horror movie masks are as interesting as the films themselves.

Many of these scary Halloween masks can be enhanced by a matching or coordinating costume, but we tried to select premium, low-maintenance picks that have an impressive effect all on their own.

From Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers to Pennywise and Jason Voorhees, here are the best, spookiest face masks to wear this Halloween.

Even before the coronavirus made masks a daily reality, they occupied a mighty space in our cultural imagination as a mainstay of horror movies. Let’s unmask some classics of the genre → The ...

Horror clown masks are part of Marshall’s collection of over 280 masks and figures on display in his home in Pilot Mountain.

10 Awesome Horror Movie Masks Coming This Halloween SeasonEvery Rob Zombie movie to date has been turned into at least one Halloween mask, and Zombie’s upcoming film 31 is no exception. Though ...

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 ...