Top 10 Best Masks in Movie History
A character is always 15% cooler with a mask
Among many other things, 2020 has turned the mental checklist of “phone, keys, wallet” to “phone, keys, wallet, and mask.” You can’t walk outside without coming across someone wearing a mask (hopefully), and when it comes to movies, any new one that has a prominent mask is immediately linked to the current moment in some way. Yet, as we know, the mask has been a vital piece of film for almost its entire existence, acting as shorthand for thievery, identity crises, heroism, and pure evil. Also, putting a mask on a character almost always looks neat!
Before we get to the list of the best movie masks, here is a very long list of honorable mentions in an attempt to please everyone (which I’m sure will go very well and no complaints about omissions will arise):
Honorable Mentions
Any Star Wars mask or helmet
The nun masks from The Town
Deadpool’s mask
Any mask from the Mad Max franchise
Jason Vorhees’ hockey mask
The Mask from The Mask
The Phantom of the Opera mask
The Strangers’ masks
Any Spider-Man universe character mask
The skull masks from Den of Thieves
The hockey masks from Heat
V’s mask from V for Vendetta
Bane’s mask from The Dark Knight Rises
The Michael Myers masks from Baby Driver
Black Panther’s helmet
Iron Man’s helmet
RoboCop’s helmet
Sauron’s helmet from The Lord of the Rings
Captain America’s helmet from Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The clown heist masks from The Dark Knight
Any mask from Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
The dummy mask from Drive
Scarecrow’s mask from Batman Begins
Rorshach’s mask from Watchmen
Alex’s mask from A Clockwork Orange
The pig mask from Saw
The blue-green mask from Fantômas
Every mask from Les Vampires
The pig-bear mask from The Shining
The dead samurai mask from Onibaba
The ritual masks from The Wicker Man
Maximus’ gladiatorial helmet from Gladiator
Catwoman’s mask from Batman Returns
Frank the Bunny’s mask from Donnie Darko
The blank mask from Eyes Without a Face
The bandages from Goodnight Mommy
Venom
Dennis’ bandana from The Spongebob Movie
The Facehugger from Alien (it becomes a mask once it’s killing you!!!)
The Iron Mask
The animal masks from You’re Next
The Lone Ranger’s mask
Darkman’s Mask
Smiley’s mask from Smiley
ChromeSkull from the Laid to Rest franchise
Satan’s mask in Black Sunday
The Rite masks from The Rite
Frankenstein’s mask from Death Race 2000
The Babyface Killer’s mask in The Hills Run Red
Zorro’s Mask
#10: Any Mask in the Mission: Impossible Franchise
We’re six movies in, and I still fall for it whenever an IMF agent takes off their mask. Every. Damn. Time. It’s such a distinct motif in the franchise, that, even though it’s patently ridiculous and raises so many questions about just how good the face-reading technology is (What kind of technology allows for seamless face-wearing? Are there actual seams in the masks? Does the machine sometimes screw up? Does someone sometimes accidentally get a mole where they shouldn’t have one?) you roll with it, keeping your guard up until you get distracted by a high-octane action sequence, only to fall for the trick once more.
There are three guarantees in a Mission: Impossible movie: crazy action, Tom Cruise running, and masks. And when it comes to masks, the Mission: Impossible franchise has it all, from impersonating a random government agent to Wolf Blitzer himself.
#9: The Ex-Presidents from Point Break
Point Break is one of the most important action movies of the 1990s, from the knockout Patrick Swayze performance to the downright hilarious line readings from Keanu Reeves. (I’M. AN. F. B. I. AGENT!!!) Sure, the film didn’t create the visual of crooks using outlandish masks during a heist, but the ex-president masks (along with a few great impersonations) took it to an entirely different level, paving the way for criminals in Heat, The Town, and other crime movies to get creative with their own set of face coverings.
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