Let the Blood-Curdling Begin Again...
Well, it's been a minute! It's actually been several minutes. Six and a half years, to be exact, since regular posting occurred here on the Blood Curdling Blog of Monster Masks. Let me begin by saying...
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1952 Topstone Catalog
Hey Creeps! Let's begin the revival of our little blog with the oldest piece that resides in the Phantom's catalog collection. Fresh off the scanner bed... it's the 1952 Topstone catalog. This is one...
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Random Sunday Morning Mask Pic: Vintage Don Post Studios Instagram
The Random Sunday Morning Pic post was a long-standing tradition here at the monster mask blog, and it will continue on with the blog's revival. I thought the relaunch would be a good opportunity to...
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Zagone Studios / Be Something Studios Catalog Week
Good evening Creeps! This week at the Monster Mask Blog, we'll be digging into a full week of vintage catalogs from Be Something Studios. Before the world got crazy with the pandemic, the mother load...
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1978 Franco Catalog - Be Something Studios
There is something awesome about a good old fashioned black and white Halloween mask catalog. It's certainly not the quality of image, but if you are old enough to remember holding something like...
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1977 Be Something Studios Catalog
The 1977 Be Something Studios catalog has been posted here before, but these specific scans have not been posted until today. These scans come straight from the Zagone factory and are much cleaner and...
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1979 Be Something Studios Catalog
Today's post will serves a few purposes. First, as a correction, as the 1979 Be Something Studios catalog has been posted here before, but was incorrectly listed as the 1977 catalog. In addition,...
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1989 Be Something Studios Franco Catalog Insert
Having just released a new four-page color catalog one year prior in 1988, the new 1989 Be Something Studios line-up fit neatly onto a single-page insert in the 1989 Franco Catalog. The line-up...
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Updated Mask Collector Resources
Happy Monday Creeps! Over the weekend the "Loathsome Links" of mask resources located on the right hand area of the blog was updated. It had been over six years since the last update, and most of the...
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2016 Trick or Treat Studios Catalog
This is an incomplete posting of the 2016 catalog, but majority of pages are here. If you have a copy of the old PDF catalog download that Trick or Treat Studios offered, and would like to share it...
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WANTED: 2014 Trick or Treat Studios Catalog
Hey Creeps! If anyone has a copy of the old PDF catalog download of the 2014 Trick or Treat Studios catalog that you'd like to share, let me know in the comments below. it would be much appreciated!
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NECA / Loot Crate Universal Monsters Masks
I wanted to follow up yesterday's NECA Universal Monsters Mask Ad post with some additional related images, ads and info. First off, the talent behind these sculptures was Mark Enright of Mortar...
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NECA / Loot Crate Universal Monsters Creature from the Black Lagoon Mask Ads
Here is another piggyback post of the NECA Universal City Studio's mask series, this time with some ads for the Creature from the Black Lagoon mask. There were a good number of different ads that were...
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NECA / Loot Crate Universal Monsters Mask Photos
One last piggyback post from the NECA Uni Monsters series. Here are a few fun shots taken from Mark Enright's Mortar Heads Instagram page...
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Random Sunday Morning Mask Pic: Moseley and ROT
There are some good peeps associated with this photo. Bill Moseley being the front man posing at Monsterpalooza with a ROT mask designed by Eric Pigors, which was sculpted and custom painted by Aaron...
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Masks in Art Monday: Tater7 Monsterballs
Happy Monster Masks in Art Monday Creeps! Today's post features a monster kid's dream mash-up of Mad Balls and classic Topstone monsters by the insanely talented illustrator Tater7
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2020 Trick or Treat Studios - Universal Studios Monsters
After spending a good chunk of last week looking at the NECA Universal Studios Monsters masks, it feels like a natural segue to pivot over to the Trick or Treat Studios Uni-Monster masks to begin this...
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2021 Trick or Treat Studios - Universal Studios Monsters
Trick or Treat Studios followed up their impressive 2020 Universal Studios Monsters release with an additional round featuring some of the more obscure characters such as the Creature Walks Among Us...
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2020 Trick or Treat Studios Hammer Horror Mask Line
Since we've gone down the path of looking at Trick or Treat Studio's Universal Studios monster masks over the past few days, it seems appropriate to also take a quick look at their Hammer Horror mask...
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