NOTHING says Halloween like a good old-fashioned, creepy as fuck, Buckram or Paper Mache mask. Yeah sure, your modern day over-the-head latex and vinyl masks are great, but nothing compares to the creep factor when confronted with a 'primitive looking' painted fabric or paper masks on a 3' to 4' little human. With their oversized heads and ill fitting masks, they fill you with the urge to beat them with a stick...and scream the entire time you're doing it.
Small clowns are the worst. Maybe that's why I love them so much. They fill me with such a feeling of unease, that I start to get giddy. It's the same feeling I get when I'm at the top of that first drop on a roller coaster and JUST about to go over with my hands high above my head. It's like I'm waiting for this little clown with the blank look, to suddenly lunge at me and start stabbing me or something...it's weird.
Small clowns are the worst. Maybe that's why I love them so much. They fill me with such a feeling of unease, that I start to get giddy. It's the same feeling I get when I'm at the top of that first drop on a roller coaster and JUST about to go over with my hands high above my head. It's like I'm waiting for this little clown with the blank look, to suddenly lunge at me and start stabbing me or something...it's weird.
I also think that kids back in the 30's through the 50's were far more creepier on Halloween than the kids today. Any one of these kids in these vintage photos, could have crawled out of a Rob Zombie movie after a killing spree...or come from a family of cannibals.
FUCK THIS GUY! If I saw this coming down the street I'd shit my pants.
Thankfully the internet, being that wonderful thing that it is, has revealed beautiful images of Vintage French & German Buckram & Paper Mache Masks to share with all of you. The photos were taken by Josef Benevengo and stolen by me, so I could make my Blaaarg really cool. Enjoy the RADNESS.
Nothing says SHIT YOUR PANTS like a 4' tall Clown with a big head on Halloween...in the dark.
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