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Oh_Yeah_COOL t1_iug3z8y wrote

Pretty crazy they wearing a Scream mask before the movie even premiered.

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Azraelrs t1_iugfk5f wrote

Replying to Oh_Yeah_COOL (#365,546)

That costume existed before then. The Scream crew actual reached out to the owners and got permission to use it in the movie. I believe someone originally brought it in, and they tried to change it but none looked as good as the original and they finally just reached out and got permission to use it in the movie. That decision worked out well for both parties.

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Azraelrs t1_iugreu1 wrote

Replying to Oh_Yeah_COOL (#370,803)

That may be, but I was just pointing out that the "Ghostface costume* existed long before Scream. Also, Scream came out in 96.

"The Ghostface mask was meant to emulate Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," one of the characters on the cover of the Pink Floyd album "The Wall," and the ghostly characters that appeared in the 1930s "Betty Boop" cartoons. However, what many may not realize, is that the mask was not created for "Scream," it was an existing costume mask sold by a company called Fun World and designed by a woman named Brigitte Sleiertin. "Scream" screenwriter Kevin Williamson had this to say about finding the mask:

"No one could agree on a mask and I remember we were in a location scout, and we found Ghostface... in a box of stuff in a garage... Wes [Craven] immediately looked at it and said, 'This is like the famous Scream painting.' And so we took that to our production and we said, 'Riff on this... make something like this.' They must've done 20 different designs. Every one of them was rejected by the studio, and finally we were like, why don't we just get the rights to this mask?"

The mask was created in 1991 as part of the Fun World "Fantastic Faces" collection, and Dimension Films was able to reach an agreement to use the mask. This proved extremely profitable for Fun World, who owns both the mask design and the name "Ghostface." Since the production of "Scream" in 1996, the Ghostface mask has become the most worn and sold costume for Halloween in the United States."

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