Death Studios Monster Mask Collection

My last post featuring the 1986 & 1991 Death Studios catalogs inspired me to take some high resolution photos of my Death Studios collection for today's post.


The first frightening freak in the line-up was produced under the name "The Millennian" was sculpted by Bill Nelson in 1979. These other four fiendish fellows are from the 1986 catalog and were produced under the following names: "Invader", "Legion",  "Wolf!"  and "Mangler". I've only had the Invader and the Wolf! since last May, as I was lucky enough to find a collector who was willing to part with them. The Legion mask was the 2nd Death Studios mask I ever purchased back in 1992.

Here is the rest of the bunch. Top row: "Klownzilla", "Death II", "Cutter", "Bad Moon", "Nosferatu", "Mr. Hyde", "Mangler". Bottom Row: "Rawbone", "Goblin", "Legion", "Millennian", "Invader", "Corpus Delicti", "Healer" and "Wolf!".

A few memorable masks are featured here. The Klownzilla is the only Killer Clown mask from Death Studios that have in the collection. It's a massive mask that has made many an appearance in our Haunted Barn and home haunts. Bad Moon, the over sized werewolf mask sculpted by Henry Alvarez, and the accompanying hands were given to me as a Christmas gift by a particularly cool girlfriend back in 1993. I remember nearly passing out when I opened the box that Christmas morning! The Nosferatu mask, which is still in production, is a damn creepy mask! The Mr. Hyde is my first ever Death Studios mask.

Above is the Henry Alvarez sculpted Howling werewolf, produced under the name Bad Moon from Death Studios.

Pictured above is the relatively rare Death Studios mask "Rawbone".  This is absolutely one of my all time favorite creature designs! Sculpted by Brett Anderson and produced for a short time in 1995, only a few copies of Rawbone actually made it out to the public as production problems with the mold made it difficult to pull good copies. I've always felt it embodied everything a good monster design needs. I feel lucky to have gotten this before it was discontinued.

The Goblin mask above is the last mask that I sculpted for Death Studios. While five of my own sculptures have produced by Jeff Death over the years, this is the only one that I actually own a copy of. It was originally produced by Jeff under the name "Wild Thang" with a different paint scheme and featured and orange-ish brown hair.

Last up is Healer, the first Jordu Schell sculpted mask I added to my mask collection. Healer is another amazing example of creature & mask design by Jordu. It is completely out of the box of traditional mask design and is quite large as the eye holes are in the nostrils! This mask remains one of my favorites out of my entire collection!

That about does it for my Death Studio pieces for now, with a little luck I'm hoping to add some more from the old 1986 catalog. And, as always, there are several masks still in production that I'd love to add to the family.  From time to time I'll throw up a post with some pieces from my collection.