It’s time to begin brainstorming some concepts for the right Halloween costume, and consider us after we say, nothing screams scary like “The Purge.” Ever because the chilling horror movie sequence burst onto the scene in 2013, the popular culture phenomenon has turn out to be a Halloween staple 12 months in and 12 months out.
In case you missed the preliminary hype, “The Purge” movies and tv sequence all revolve round sooner or later yearly when, in a 12-hour interval, all crime (together with homicide and sporting white after Labor Day) is authorized in a dystopian America. The horror franchise is a large success each critically and financially and is a simple, reasonably priced, and inventive topic for a lot of Halloween costumes.
For the previous few years, Halloween-goers younger and outdated have used “The Purge” franchise and its iconic, creepy, Instagram-worthy masks as their spooky season inspiration. In a 2018 interview with the Motion Picture Association, “The First Purge” costume designer Amela Baksic dished on the place the franchise’s masks come from and the key to creating an ideal Purge masks. “Gerard McMurray, our director, and Sebastien Lemercier, our producer, pointed me in the direction of Cajun Mardi Gras, which has a number of very unusual and inventive masks,” she defined. “I also looked at Haitian carnival masks, which incorporate bull imagery, and have inspired the bull mask used in the Purge party, featured on a lot of posters . . . The key to creating a successful Purge mask, is [a] certain simplicity and DIY quality—not looking too finished or overly designed.”
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—Additional reporting by Lauren Harano
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