Learn How SCREAM Accidentally Found Its Ghostface Mask
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Williamson says no one could agree on a mask for the movie’s secret killer(s). Finally, during a location scout, they found the Ghostface mask inside a box of stuff in a garage. Craven wanted to use it as the basis for their mask because it resembled Edvard Munch’s famous “The Scream” painting. The mask’s owner let them take it, but attempts to create a satisfactory unique mask that “riffed” on the original proved fruitless. The studio kept rejecting them, despite receiving roughly 20 versions.
That’s when everyone decided it would be easier to simply get the rights to the original mask. Which made sense anyway. The script said it should look like the cheap kind you can buy in a “dime store.”
The rest, as they say, is horror movie history. And while it might not be the most exciting tale ever told, it strangely makes us like it even more.
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