{"id":8389,"date":"2016-08-31T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:27:42","slug":"movie-legends-addendum-the-real-origin-of-the-ghostface-mask-from-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2016\/08\/31\/movie-legends-addendum-the-real-origin-of-the-ghostface-mask-from-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Legends Addendum: The REAL Origin of the Ghostface Mask From Scream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/07\/03\/was-the-ghostface-mask-from-scream-first-discovered-in-an-abandoned-house\/\">a Movie Legends Revealed about the amazing story of how the makers of the movie Scream discovered the Ghostface mask they used in the film<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scream-375x211.jpg\" alt=\"scream\" width=\"375\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scream-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scream-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scream-515x290.jpg 515w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scream.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=legenrevea-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B004OEIL54&#038;asins=B004OEIL54&#038;linkId=79bd3901c711ce496d8fb524000ed165&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=&#038;title_color=&#038;bg_color=FFFFFF\">    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Among the people who read that initial article was a man named Loren Gitthens, who had a fascinating story to tell about the Ghostface mask that I figured it would be worth running as an addendum to that original piece.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to learn his story!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Here\u2019s Loren:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My name is Loren Gitthens.  Back in the late \u201880s\/early \u201890s, I was living in Los Angeles, working in the Special Makeup Effects industry.  As was the case in the small community of Makeup Effects Artists, someone would host a Halloween Party each year.  And, as I\u2019m sure you can imagine, the costumes were pretty creative. <\/p>\n<p>For the Halloween party of 1990, my idea was to do a take on the classic kid\u2019s costume of using a bed sheet with eye holes to make a ghost.  I wanted to expand on the idea by forming a ghostly face from buckram (a fabric that is dipped in water, shaped, and dries stiff).  Then I integrated it with a bed sheet. The costumes went over well and were seen by many of the Makeup Effects Artists in the industry at that time.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/original-ghost-face-costume.jpeg\" alt=\"original ghost face costume\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8390\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The face design was inspired loosely by a mask I made in 1985 that I had called \u201cScreamer Long Jaw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screamer-longjaw.jpeg\" alt=\"screamer longjaw\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8391\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A few months after the Halloween party, I was working with Tony Gardner at his Alterian Studios.  Tony wanted to start a mask company with me and another artist, Chet Zar.  We called the company \u201cThe Ghost Factory.\u201d  While we were coming up with mask design ideas, I suggested we make a line of masks from my bed sheet ghost idea.  We put together a kit that included a rigid, vacuform ghost face, glue, and paints.  We called it \u201cGhost Maker.\u201d  The idea was that you would use your own bed sheet, then attach it and blend in the ghost face.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ghostmaker-packaging-art.jpeg\" alt=\"ghostmaker packaging art\" width=\"237\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8394\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, we also used the face design in the Ghost Factory logo. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ghost-factory-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"ghost factory logo\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8393\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We put together packaging with artwork created by my childhood friend, and now well-known and respected Production Designer, Bill Boes.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, we took our Ghost Maker kits and the other masks we had made to a big Halloween Products Tradeshow in Chicago, where all of the costume and novelty companies, big and small, would try to get orders from retailers.  We were a new, small, unknown company, so unfortunately we didn\u2019t sell too many.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ghostmaker-brochure.jpeg\" alt=\"ghostmaker brochure\" width=\"191\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8392\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>However, one of the companies at the tradeshow that was obviously interested in our masks was Fun World. <\/p>\n<p>About a year later, tiring of trying to sell masks and work in the Makeup Effects business, I gave it all up and moved to Santa Cruz, CA to start a new life with my<br \/>\nwife there. <\/p>\n<p>A year or two after moving to Santa Cruz, as the Halloween season was getting into full swing, I was in a drugstore and saw the Fun World\u2019s cheap, mass-produced, knock-off version of my Ghost Maker face.  But instead of being sold as a kit, it was a rigid face already attached to a small, head-sized sheet.  Clearly, it appeared to be a direct rendering of my original creation.<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit amused, but didn\u2019t pursue looking into it any further as I had left that part of my life behind and was on to a new one.  I don\u2019t think the Fun World version sold all that well either.  But then it was picked up by the makers of the Scream films.  And, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/07\/03\/was-the-ghostface-mask-from-scream-first-discovered-in-an-abandoned-house\/\">you know that story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t at all fault the makers of Scream; for all they knew, it was a mask designed and owned by Fun World.  But what bothers me is that someone else is taking credit for my original design.  I have been carrying this story with me for more than 20 years.  Seeing your article compelled me to finally document the events as they actually happened.  And now I\u2019m sharing it with you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And thank you for that, Loren!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think that this is ever going to be something that I can classify as \u201cTrue\u201d or \u201cFalse,\u201d as pretty much you just have to make up your own mind, but I thought that Loren&#8217;s story was still worth sharing with you all.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2009\/04\/19\/movie-legends-history\/\">my archive of Movie Legends Revealed<\/a> for more urban legends about the world of films. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is &#x62;&#x63;&#x72;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x69;&#x6e;&#x40;&#x6c;&#x65;&#x67;&#101;&#110;&#100;&#115;revealed.&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I wrote a Movie Legends Revealed about the amazing story of how the makers of the movie Scream discovered the Ghostface mask they used in the film. Among the people who read that initial article was a man named Loren Gitthens, who had a fascinating story to tell about the Ghostface mask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[2190,2189,2542,2187,2188],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjBq-2bj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6039,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/07\/03\/was-the-ghostface-mask-from-scream-first-discovered-in-an-abandoned-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":8389,"position":0},"title":"Was the Ghostface Mask From Scream First Discovered in an Abandoned House?","date":"July 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. 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