Anyone can wear it

Every other well known slasher is a single character. Michael Myers is Michael Myers under the mask in every film. Freddy Krueger is Freddy Krueger. Jason Voorhees is Jason Voorhees. Chucky is one doll. The audience always knows who is under there.

Ghost Face is not one person, and not always a man. Across seven films at least fourteen different people have worn the costume, and in most of the films there are two of them at once. Billy Loomis and Stu Macher. Mickey Altieri and Mrs. Loomis. Roman Bridger alone. Jill Roberts and Charlie Walker. Richie Kirsch and Amber Freeman. The Bailey family, three of them. And in the seventh film, Jessica Bowden and Marco Davis, with a third person in the costume as well.

Five of the killers are women. Mrs. Loomis in the second film, Jill Roberts in the fourth, Amber Freeman in the fifth, Quinn Bailey in the sixth and Jessica Bowden in the seventh. Women have worn the costume behind the camera as well. The shoulders of the robe are padded for this reason, so the build of the person inside gives nothing away.

The costume is something anyone can buy in a shop. That is what allows anyone in the story to be inside it, and it is why the films work as murder mysteries as well as slasher films. The other horror icons are single characters, so their films cannot be built that way.

It also means the character continues after each film. The person inside is killed or caught at the end of every one, and a different person wears the costume in the next.

The rules he follows

What holds the character together, given that the person underneath keeps changing, is a set of habits that every single wearer follows without ever being told to.

Ghost Face phones first. The call comes before the knife, always, and it starts friendly. There is a stretch of ordinary conversation, sometimes flirting, before anything goes wrong. Ghost Face asks about scary movies and turns the answer into a quiz where getting it wrong has a cost, says you are being watched and then proves it, and toys with people for a long time before touching them.

The voice is the same every time because everyone uses a voice changer, and the story gives a reason for that in the first film, so the audience never has to wonder why two different killers sound identical. That device is the one piece of equipment the character genuinely needs.

The result is that the character is carried by the phone calls rather than by the face. In most of the films the voice arrives well before the costume does.

He bleeds

Michael Myers survives injuries that would kill a person. Jason Voorhees does the same. Freddy Krueger attacks inside dreams. Chucky is a doll animated by a curse.

Ghost Face is a person in a store bought costume, and the films never let you forget it. Ghost Face trips, gets punched, gets hit with things, gets thrown down stairs, gets shot at and gets stabbed with that same knife. The knife gets dropped. In the first film Ghost Face takes a beating and keeps having to get back up. There is an ordinary person inside the costume and the films never pretend otherwise.

Wes Craven and the stunt team have said this was intended. The character was written to be beatable, and stunt performers have described the falls and stumbles as part of the brief rather than accidents.

It is also why the costume is built the way it is. Padded shoulders so you cannot read the body underneath, a hood with a stiff brim so the face stays in shadow, an oversized glove so several different performers can wear the same suit. Every piece of it exists to hide which person is inside.

The motive

The motive is the other thing that sets Ghost Face apart. Michael Myers kills without an explanation, which those films leave deliberately unexplained. Freddy is taking revenge from beyond the grave. Chucky wants a body.

Every Ghost Face has an ordinary human reason. A boy angry that his mother left. Peer pressure. Wanting to be famous. Wanting a trial. Revenge for a son. Jealousy of a cousin's fame. Being angry about how a film franchise turned out and deciding that real murders would force somebody to make a better one. A family avenging a son. A woman who read a survivor's memoir and then felt abandoned by a woman who does not know she exists.

None of those motives are supernatural. In every film the killer is a character the audience has already met, acting on an ordinary human reason.

How it caught on

Ghost Face is now licensed alongside the other horror icons in the same games and merchandise lines.

Ghost Face stands beside Michael Myers, Leatherface, Freddy and the rest in Dead by Daylight, and has been a fighter in Mortal Kombat, an operator in Call of Duty, a skin in Fortnite, a crewmate in Among Us and a gunslinger in Hunt: Showdown. The face is trademarked as The Icon of Halloween. That mark, serial number 85077294, registered as number 4035973 on October 4, 2011.

The mask has been through federal court twice over who owns it. A screen used costume sold for $270,900 in August 2024. Supreme built a seasonal collection around the character in April 2026, and a licensed Ghost Face vodka launched in January 2026.

So Ghost Face sits in the same group as Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Chucky, but the character is built differently from all three. Those are single characters. Ghost Face is a role that different characters take on.

What it is

Ghost Face is a mass produced Halloween mask. It is not a film prop, it was not sculpted for a movie, and it was not designed with Sidney Prescott in mind. It is a piece of soft white PVC, roughly thirty centimeters, or eleven and three quarter inches, from the top of the head to the chin, with a black stretch shroud attached at the neck so the whole thing drapes over the wearer's head and shoulders in one piece.

The face has three features and nothing else. Two long hollow eyes that taper as they fall, a thin outline of a nose with no bridge and no nostrils, and a mouth pulled down into a long open oval. There is no chin, no ears, no hair and no skin texture. That emptiness is the whole trick. A face with detail belongs to somebody. A face with no detail belongs to whoever is standing inside it, which is exactly what the story needs, because in every film the person under the mask turns out to be someone the audience already knows.

The original masks glowed in the dark. The Fun World item that became Ghost Face was cataloged as a glow in the dark ghost mask with shroud, item number 9206, sold as a mixed assortment of four different ghost faces rather than as a single product.

The four faces in the box

That 1992 assortment is the part most people get wrong. Fun World did not make one ghost mask. It made four, packed together, and collectors have long cataloged them by the expressions the sculptor gave them. Only one of the four became Ghost Face. The other three sold alongside it for years and are now the hardest ones for a collector to find, because nobody knew to keep them.

The assortment grew. Two more designs, Melty and Grinning, were added in 1995, so a late 1990s box does not hold the same faces as a 1992 one.

This is also why the mask has no single original name. It was one face in an assortment of generic ghosts. It picked up nicknames from the people who sold it and the people who collected it long before it was given a real one.

How to tell the real thing

Fun World has stamped its masks in different ways across thirty odd years, and the stamp on the inside of the chin is the fastest way to date one. The earliest carry a FUN WORLD DIV mark. Later runs carry two letter codes, and collectors use those letters as shorthand for whole eras of production. Later still the company moved to an EU stamp, for Easter Unlimited, the parent company.

Beyond the stamp, the giveaways are the depth of the mold, the width between the eyes, the shape of the chin and whether the mouth has a seam. Two masks that look identical hanging on a peg can be twenty years apart. The archive at the end of this database lists every variant with the marks that separate it from the one next to it.

Fun World

The company that sold the mask is Fun World, a division of Easter Unlimited, Inc., a family business based at Carle Place on Long Island in New York. It started in 1959 as the S. Rosenberg Christmas Company, importing novelties from Japan. Sam Rosenberg's son in law Stanley Geller bought the business in April 1963 and renamed it. Alan Geller joined over in 1981 and pushed the company hard into Halloween, which is the decision that eventually produced Ghost Face.

Fun World registered its copyright in the mask as a sculpture. The registration is VA 552 798, effective February 23, 1993, covering the glow in the dark and fluorescent versions of items 9206 and 9207, and it states that the work was first published on December 4, 1991. That date matters more than any interview, because it is a federal filing made three years before anybody started shooting a film. Whatever else is arguable, the mask demonstrably existed before Scream did.

Who designed it

Three different people have been named as the creator, and all three names came from Fun World or from people speaking for it.

The name that appears most often in print is Brigitte Sleiertin, sometimes written Sleiertin-Linden or Sleiertin-Liden, a School of Visual Arts graduate who had just joined the company. She is credited with the drawings the masks were made from, and a Fangoria interview published in January 2000 is the source most later articles are leaning on.

Fun World's own website now credits Alan Geller, the executive, as the creator of the mask and the costume, with no mention of Sleiertin at all.

And in a sworn declaration filed in federal court, Easter Unlimited's own principal named a Hong Kong based sculptor, Fok Lee, as the person who made the mask, and said he did it as paid work for the company rather than as its author.

These are not necessarily three competing lies. A designer drawing, an executive approving and an overseas sculptor cutting the actual mold is an ordinary way to make a product. What is odd is that the company has never once put those three roles in order in public. Anyone who tells you flatly who designed Ghost Face is choosing one of the three and hoping you do not check.

The Ghost Maker kit

There is a rival claim, it is older than most people realize, and it is a great deal more solid than internet rumor.

The Alterian Ghost Factory was a Halloween side business run by Alterian Studios, the effects house belonging to Tony Gardner. It sold a product called the Ghost Maker, a make your own costume kit. Inside the box was a hard molded plastic ghost face, plus glue and paint, and the buyer supplied the bedsheet. It was the classic sheet ghost upgraded into something you could buy in a shop.

The design is credited to effects artist Loren Gitthens, who reportedly built a version for a special effects industry Halloween party in the autumn of 1990, working from an earlier 1985 mask. Gardner decided to sell the idea during a quiet stretch for film work, and the kits were shown at the Transworld Halloween trade show in Chicago in March 1991. The line ran to six designs with names like Lovey Tate, Screech and Lil' Boo Boo. The one that matters is called the Wailer.

The Wailer is the mask Alterian says Ghost Face was copied from. March 1991 for the trade show, December 4, 1991 for Fun World's first publication date. Nine months apart.

The evidence

The strongest single piece of support for the Alterian claim is its age. Chet Zar, one of the artists connected to the line, wrote to Fangoria and the letter ran in the July 2000 issue, disputing Fun World's credit and putting the design with Gitthens at Alterian. That objection is on the record from the year 2000, decades before there was serious money in the argument, which knocks out the usual answer that somebody turned up late with their hand out.

Physical kits also survive. Collectors have turned up examples of several designs, including a Wailer, and there is a 1991 news segment showing the kits being made.

And there is a detail from Fun World's own side that cuts the same way. Sleiertin has said she was handed a picture of something similar to what the finished masks would look like and asked whether it could be made as a mask. That is close to an admission that she was working from an existing design rather than inventing one from nothing.

What nobody has is the link in the middle. Nobody has produced the Alterian brochure with a Fun World fingerprint on it. Nobody has a witness who saw one become the other. Gitthens's own account is simply that a year or two after moving away, mass produced versions started showing up in drugstores. That is recognising your own work after the fact, not watching it be taken.

The Edvard Munch question

Almost every article ever written about this mask says it was inspired by The Scream, the 1893 painting by Edvard Munch. The designer says it was not.

Sleiertin has rejected the Munch link directly, calling it a convenient way to write the design off, and has said the faces came mostly from the ghosts in black and white cartoons of the 1930s. That is the same answer Snopes reports, which traces her influence to Fleischer era cartoon ghosts rather than to any painting.

So where did Munch come from? From Wes Craven, in 1995, looking at a finished object. Kevin Williamson has recalled that when Craven first saw the mask he said it was like the Munch painting. That is a director's reaction on the day, not a statement about what was in a designer's head four years earlier. The two got welded together in retellings and have stayed welded ever since.

The honest version is more interesting than the myth. The designer says cartoons. The director said Munch. The public heard Munch and stopped listening.

The design drawings

Very little of the design work for this face has ever been published. What has been published is worth looking at, because it shows the decisions being made rather than the result.

KNB EFX Group drew a sheet of twelve alternative masks for Wes Craven, in case the deal for the Fun World mask fell through. Craven turned down every one of them. Some are gargoyles, some are witches, some are goblins, and not one of them is a blank face.

Alterian's side of the argument has artwork too, and it is the earlier artwork. Bill Boes painted the packaging for the Ghost Maker kit in 1991, built around the Wailer face. The sales brochure handed out at the Chicago trade show that year uses the same face, and so does the Ghost Factory company logo. Whatever you make of the origin argument, this is the face on paper in 1991.

R. J. Torbert

R. J. Torbert came to Fun World from a senior toy buying job at the Woolworth Company and became its Director of Licensing and Product Development. He is the person who named the mask, and he has told the story often enough that the details are consistent.

The mask had no name. It was one of several generic ghosts in a boxed assortment, and when the film company came calling, Torbert pushed for it to be given a proper name, against some resistance. His first idea was Ghost in Pain, because that is what the face read like to him. He settled on Ghost Face instead, on the reasoning that it worked as a thing rather than a description. The Gellers approved it.

He has described that moment as the day the mask was christened, and he gives the date as June 21, 1999. That date is worth trusting, because it is not just a memory. June 21, 1999 is the exact date of Easter Unlimited's supplementary copyright registration, the filing that changed the registered title of the work to Ghost Face Mask with Shroud. A company anecdote and a federal document landing on the same day is about as good as this subject gets.

Note what that means. As a formal act, the name arrived three years after the first film came out.

Father Death

Inside the films the costume has a different name. Nobody ever says it out loud. It is printed on the packaging, and you see it in the Woodsboro police station in the first film, after Billy Loomis has been questioned, when Dewey brings the boxed costume in and shows it to Sheriff Burke. The card reads Father Death.

The line that goes with that moment is the plot mechanism for the whole series. They sell this costume at every five-and-dime in the state, and there is no way to track the purchase. No shop is named anywhere in the film. The killer is not wearing something unique, they are wearing something anyone in the state could buy, which is why anyone could be underneath it.

The mask sitting inside that package is the film's number one hero mask, the one used in the attack on Sidney. Its mouth was drawn over with a black marker to stop the lights bouncing off it.

The other Father Death costumes in the first film belong to the two boys who run through the school in them. Principal Himbry calls them into his office, cuts one of the masks in half with a pair of scissors and expels them both, and is then found trying the mask on in front of his mirror. Those are KNB Effects masks rather than shop ones. Property manager JP Jones has said the box of Fun World masks arrived on the same day they shot Himbry cutting the KNB mask up.

Fun World did not sell a boxed costume called Father Death at the time. That packaging was made for the film, and the mask was sold on its own. The company has gone after the name twice since. Serial number 88288454 was filed on February 4, 2019 for costumes and masks and published for opposition on May 28, 2019, then abandoned on March 1, 2021 because no statement of use was filed, with the matching international registration 1472836 cancelled in October 2021. Serial number 98650640 was filed on July 16, 2024 across six classes covering software, printed matter, decorations, costumes, toys and entertainment services.

The name is finally on a product for the film's thirtieth anniversary. Item 136764 is the Father Death costume and item 93828 is the Father Death mask, a glow in the dark mask with a two piece hood and an inner shroud joined to it with hook and loop tabs.

The popular fan reading is that Wes Craven chose the name as a pointer at Sidney's father, Neil Prescott, who is a suspect for much of the first film. Craven never said that on the record. The packaging is fact and the reading is a reading.

The packaging in the films

SCREAM, 1996. The Father Death package in the police station is the only piece of costume packaging in the film. It is a prop, built for the production. Nobody buys the costume on screen and no shop is ever shown.

SCREAM 2, 1997. The packaging is all over the Stab premiere. The studio has handed the costumes out as publicity, so the audience is full of people in the robe carrying fake knives, which is exactly why nobody moves when Maureen Evans is stabbed in her seat. Maureen and Phil Stevens walk down to their seats carrying a Stab costume package with the masks visible through the front, and there is a closer shot of Maureen's a little later. The masks inside are second generation ones. There is a Stab standee in the lobby as well, though it is hard to see in the finished film.

One of those Stab premiere sets has been sold privately as a complete screen used costume: the mask, the robe, a green plastic knife and the Stab card, with a certificate from Prop Masters. The seller said seven were made for the film.

SCREAM 3, 2000. No packaging, but the costume is on screen as merchandise. Sarah Darling is killed in the props department at Sunrise Studios among racks of Ghost Face robes, which the killer shoves over on top of her.

SCREAM 6, 2023. The shrine in the abandoned cinema puts nine costumes on open display, one for every killer, each labelled with the name of the person who wore it, and Billy Loomis's is in a glass case.

The Stab premiere robe itself has been to auction. Prop Store sold it in London as lot 334, black cotton with lurex, a strip of hook and loop inside the hood and wide open sleeves, in the sale that ran from November 14 to November 17, 2024, with an estimate of two thousand to four thousand British pounds.

What Fun World owns

The copyright is in the sculpture, registered in 1993 and retitled in 1999.

The word mark GHOST FACE is registered. Serial number 85077247 became registration 4035972, filed July 2, 2010, published for opposition on December 28, 2010 with nobody opposing it, and registered on October 4, 2011 across classes covering costumes, masks, t-shirts and party goods. It has since been renewed, and it has now stood long enough that nobody can challenge it. A separate design mark, registration 4256208, covers the stylised red outlined ghost holding a knife.

What Fun World does not own is the shape of the mask as a trademark. It applied on November 19, 2020 to register the three dimensional configuration itself, describing the elongated hollow eyes, the skeletal nose outline and the long open mouth. The examiner refused it for lack of distinctiveness, pointing at how many near identical masks are sold by other people on Amazon, Etsy and elsewhere as proof that the shape does not point to one source any more. That application has never registered.

The company has kept filing. On April 25, 2024 it filed a fresh wave of GHOST FACE applications, serial numbers 98518932, 98518935, 98518938 and 98518941, along with two more for THE ICON OF HALLOWEEN and one for THE FACE OF FEAR. GHOST FACE LIVES was filed on October 23, 2020 and again on July 9 and November 7, 2024. FATHER DEATH was filed on July 16, 2024. KILLER FOR ALL SEASONS was filed on December 2, 2024.

What people get wrong about 1996

The robe was designed by Cynthia Bergstrom, and her own account is the only reliable source on it, because most of what circulates comes from fan wikis rather than from anyone who was in the room.

Wes Craven wanted it white. The department put a performer in white, photographed him lurking in bushes from every angle they could manage, showed Craven the results, and the verdict was that on a tall man it read as a giant Casper. White was dropped.

What replaced it was a black knit with a bit of stretch, shot through with silver thread, the sort sold as lurex, so that light would catch and glint off the figure instead of swallowing it. The fabric was found in a small shop during a location scout in Northern California with barely a bolt left on the roll, and more was ordered. Accounts differ on the detail. One puts the shop in San Francisco. Another places it in Hillsborough and credits the cinematographer Mark Irwin with spotting it, saying he could light it so the sparkle read almost like light hitting a knife.

Three things made it work. A stiff brim of cardboard and stiffened cloth was built into the hood so it holds its shape and keeps the face in shadow. Straps hold the hood in place so it cannot slip during a chase. And the shoulders were padded so the wearer's own build would not give away who was inside, which matters enormously in a film where the answer is two people you have already met.

There is a detail worth knowing about the hood. The version built around the KNB prototype mask was smaller and tighter to the head. Once the Fun World masks arrived the hood grew larger and more billowy. So the hood changes shape partway through the first film.

Two claims you will see everywhere are not supported by anything reliable: that each robe cost about seven hundred dollars, and that the fabric was rayon jersey knit. Both come from fan sources and the second contradicts the designer, who describes a knit with silver thread through it. They are here only so you know to ignore them.

How to tell one film's robe from another

There is no official checklist, but the same tells come up again and again across auction catalogs, costume departments and the people who build replicas for a living.

The first and best tell is the sleeve tatters and the hem, read together. The 1996 robe has flat bottomed, square cut arm tassels and a hem of ripped triangles. From the second film onward the arm tassels are rounded and the hem fringe is squared off. Propstore's own catalog language matches: zig-zagged sleeve edges on the first, rounded tips on the second.

The second tell is the front opening. The 1996 hero robe is cataloged as a pull over garment, with self adhesive strips only to secure the hood. The Scream 2 hero robe has fastening strips along the front opening as well as in the hood. Replica makers have codified this as pull over for the first film, a strip across the chest for the second and fourth, and snap buttons for the third, although the snap button claim comes from the replica trade rather than from a production source. One long running collector thread claims the screen robes carried well over a hundred snap buttons down the full length, with faster Velcro versions kept for quick changes. Nobody has ever produced an auction catalog that mentions a zip, so treat the zip story as false.

The third tell is what stiffens the hood, and this one is documented properly. The 1996 robe has a rigid board sewn in. The Scream 2 robe has foam sewn in. Scream 4's is a padded hood with Velcro and a head strap. Scream 6's is fuller and heavier in the back.

The fourth is the gloves. On the first film they are attached to the sleeves with pinched backs for a slimmer fit. On the second they are attached. In 2022 they were detached altogether and the ends were deliberately ripped. Collectors note that the screen gloves look conspicuously baggy next to replicas, and the reason is practical: the same robes had to fit several different stunt performers.

The fifth is the sheen of the fabric, which is covered film by film below.

And the sixth separates screen from shop. Hero robes were built to one set of dimensions with no sizing at all, so any performer could put one on. Retail robes carry a Fun World size label. The Scream 4 Stab-a-thon costume Propstore sold is labeled to fit size twelve to fourteen and is plainly polyester. Retail hoods are also smaller, with a foam insert around the front, where the film hood is much bigger.

The robe, film by film

SCREAM, 1996, Cynthia Bergstrom. Black lurex knit. Rigid board in the hood, straps, padded shoulders, gloves attached with pinched backs, square sleeve tassels, hem of ripped triangles, pull over. The hood is smaller early in the film and larger later.

SCREAM 2, 1997, Kathleen Detoro. Custom tailored in the same black fabric, so the material did not change but the cut did. Arm tassels become rounded, hem fringe becomes squared, and the neckline is more pronounced. Foam replaces the rigid board in the hood, and fastening strips appear along the front opening. That last change is the single biggest structural difference between the first film and everything after it.

SCREAM 3, 2000, Abigail Murray. Custom tailored again in the same fabric, and by every account the design is identical to the second film. This is the film where the mask changed and the robe did not. The one difference collectors assert is a snap button closure, which is a well established convention in the replica trade rather than a confirmed production fact.

SCREAM 4, 2011, Debra McGuire. Two different robes were used. One is a similar but not identical black sparkle fabric, the other is plain black. Both keep the rounded tassels and squared fringe. The sparkle reads brighter and shinier than before under the newer lighting. The auction catalog from the 2011 prop sale describes one lot as black disco fabric, frayed at the bottom, with built in hands and winged under the arms, which is the first written mention of the underarm drape that a later designer would name outright.

SCREAM 5, 2022, Emily Gunshor. The first genuine rebuild since 1996. New fabric that keeps a subtle sparkle but tones it down against the old silver thread knit, and gloves detached from the sleeves with the ends ripped. Her successor confirms the importance of this one by saying the directors liked what Gunshor did with the shape and body of it, and that she used that pattern as her starting point. Gunshor has not published construction detail beyond that.

SCREAM 6, 2023, Avery Plewes. The biggest deliberate redesign in the series. She calls the underarm drapes the Ghost Face wings and rebuilt them as six panels on each side to signify the sixth film, three in the classic fabric with three semi sheer panels layered behind them, so the silhouette reads heavier. She made the hood bigger and fuller at the back because the directors wanted the figure to take up as much space as possible, and she changed the hem. She could not get the exact fabric used on the previous film and sourced something very close. She also notes the robe is packable, which mattered because the script needed robes hidden inside backpacks. Her verdict on the result was that it looked strangely beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

SCREAM 7, 2026, Leigh Leverett. This is the thin one, and rather than guess I will say so. Leverett is credited as costume designer. No interview, catalog entry or auction lot describing the fabric, cut, sleeves, hood or collar has surfaced. The only Scream 7 costume material in the public record concerns secrecy rather than construction, including Ethan Embry finding out he was playing a killer when wardrobe handed him the outfit.

Scream Robes and ours

StabMovies.com's own robe was made by Scream Robes. In our words on the costumes page: we've partnered with Scream Robes who made our new robe for the Stab movies and also for you to buy. Scream Robes makes every version of the Ghost Face Robe used on camera, including a special StabMovies.com version. Contact them to buy your own.

The partnership dates to at least May 14, 2020, when we announced the new costume and noted that the maker also produces versions representing the various Scream films, and that the StabMovies exclusive version is available to buy.

They trade as @screamrobes on Instagram under the name Ghostface Costume Maker, and ordering runs through direct message. A domain at screamrobes.com is registered but currently sits on a placeholder page. Independent coverage of their work is all video: there are unboxing and review videos covering their Scream 2 and Scream 6 robes, and a review referencing a Scream 4 style. Their robes turn up on the resale market listed by the buyer's height, which is consistent with everything being made to order.

What could not be established, and I would rather say so than invent it: who runs Scream Robes by name, exactly when they started beyond being active by May 2020, what fabric they use, how they construct them, whether they hold a license, or what they charge. Instagram blocks automated reading and there is no written interview with them anywhere.

Every official retail robe

The garment is older than the film. Fun World's 1992 catalog lists item 9206 as a glow in the dark ghost mask supplied with a shroud, sold in assortments with either a white or a black cotton shroud attached to a head sized sheet. Item 9207 was the fluorescent version. Those early shrouds were thin stretchy t-shirt material, with the hooded variants using a doubled up thicker layer. There was also item 9219, the Instant Disguise, a throw over with a long cape and a droop the hood.

The material switch is datable. Cotton shrouds run from about 1992 to 1997 and go with the pink Fantastic Faces cards. Polyester arrives in late 1997 and goes with the purple Fearsome Faces cards, and later with the As Seen In Scream tags.

Full costumes rather than mask and shroud sets begin once the film lands. The Scream Stalker range ran from 1997 into the 2000s in child, teen, adult and plus sizes, each a black cloak with a mask on a head strap and a cloth bib. The earliest 1997 examples have cotton bibs; most are polyester. In 1998 the weeping face was pulled out of the 9206 assortment and given its own number, S9206, with the S standing for Scream. A bleeding Scream Stalker joined in 1999, and in 2000 the whole line was rebranded into black and red packaging carrying the Ghost Face name. Around 2002 came item 8501, a metallic mask with shroud.

From about 2010 the range moved to deluxe formats, which brought back a hooded shroud with some resemblance to the old hooded Fantastic and Fearsome releases. Scream 4 in 2011 brought a film branded costume line in four sizes, usually mask, robe and belt. The long running plain adult costume is item 9974. Modern retail robes are lightweight polyester.

The 25th Anniversary Movie Edition arrived for 2021 as item 137054, a hooded robe with a silver metallic accent in a shimmer fabric, plus gloves and mask, fitting up to six feet, or 183 centimeters, and two hundred pounds, or 91 kilograms. There is a child edition, item 137052, and youth sizes.

The aged Scream 6 range came for Halloween 2023, branded Ghost Face Lives. The adult deluxe is item 134364, a hooded robe with aged detailing plus mask and belt. There is a plus version, item 134365, adding gloves and fitting up to six feet two, or 188 centimeters, and three hundred pounds, or 136 kilograms, and a child version. How the distressing is actually achieved is not published anywhere.

The current range adds Crimson Deluxe, a blood red hooded robe with mask and matching gloves, child item 136714 and a one size adult at around sixty three dollars. And for the film's thirtieth anniversary in 2026 there is a Father Death edition, adult item 136764, a full length black hooded polyester robe with sparkly embellishment, running from about eighty to a hundred and ten dollars depending where you buy it. Its matching mask, item 93828, is on a new mold and comes with a short tasselless shroud and a detachable sparkle hood, which is a genuinely new retail format.

Beyond those, the range now includes hooded glittering ponchos, light up fade mouth costumes, pumpkin, zombie, bleeding, Soul Reaper and pink bling dress versions. And in April 2026 Fun World made an exclusive shroud for Supreme.

Who makes replica robes

The screen robes were never sold, so a small trade grew up making them. These are the makers people actually name.

SCREAM ROBES, on Instagram as @screamrobes under the name Ghostface Costume Maker, is the one that built the StabMovies.com robe. They make every version used on camera, they work to order, and orders go through direct message. There are review videos covering their Scream 2, Scream 4 and Scream 6 robes. Their robes resell listed by the buyer's height, which tells you everything about how they are made.

PUBLIC ENEMY STUDIOS molded their pattern from a screen used hero prop and sell a Scream 1 to 4 sparkle robe at around three hundred and sixty dollars, sized by height from four foot ten to six foot four, which is 147 to 193 centimeters. They are the maker who codified the closure differences: pull over for the first film, a strip across the chest for the second and fourth, and snap buttons for the third.

And Fun World itself is the third option. Their retail costumes are not screen accurate, but the 25th anniversary and aged Scream 6 editions are the closest the official line has come.

Every full costume ever released

This is the whole retail costume line, as complete as the record allows. Where an item number is known it is given.

THE 1990s. Item 9223 in 1995, an all in one mask and gown, a child sized vest with a polyester shroud. Item 9219 in 1996, sold as Instant Disguise, an adult throw over with a long cape and a droop collar hood on the Weeping face. Item 9225 in 1996, a ghost mask with a fancy shroud using latex faces and polyester hoods. Item 8919 in 1997, the same throw over without the cape. The Scream Stalker costume from 1997 in child, teen, adult and plus, a black cloak with a mask on a head strap and a cloth bib, the earliest ones with cotton bibs and most with polyester. A seven foot, or 213 centimeter, Scream Stalker in the late 1990s. A bleeding Scream Stalker in 1999.

THE 2000s. Item 8511 in 2000, the Scary Movie costumes in the Whassup, Smiley and Stoned versions. Item 8510 in 2000, a friendly cartoon ghost aimed at younger children. The line rebranded into black and red Ghost Face packaging in 2000. Item 8501 in 2002, the metallic mask with shroud.

THE 2010s. A film branded Scream 4 costume line in 2011 in child, teen, adult and plus, usually mask, robe and belt. The deluxe formats from around 2010, which brought back a full hood. Item 9974, the long running plain adult costume, a hooded robe and mask. The Dead by Daylight sub line, with a Devil Face adult and child in 2021 and an Icebound Phantom child in 2023.

THE ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS. A Scream 4 collector's edition adult around 2020. The 25th Anniversary Movie Edition in 2021, item 137054 for adults with a silver metallic accent hooded robe, gloves and mask, item 137052 for children, and youth medium and large. A 25th anniversary silver mask adult plus. And for the film's thirtieth anniversary in 2026, the Father Death edition, adult item 136764, a full length black hooded polyester robe with sparkly embellishment.

THE AGED SCREAM 6 RANGE, Halloween 2023, branded Ghost Face Lives. Adult deluxe item 134364 with hooded robe, mask and belt. Plus size item 134365 adding gloves. A child version. An extra large added in 2024.

THE NOVELTY AND BLING TIER, mostly from 2024 onward. Bling mask costumes for men and women. A bloody bling. Glitter and pastel pink sparkle for children. A plain pink adult. Crimson Deluxe in red with a bloody mask and matching gloves, child item 136714 and a one size adult. Shimmer Gold. Pearl Velour. A two tone chrome for girls. A pink chrome toddler dress. Fluorescent green and fluorescent orange in adult and child.

THE SEASONAL RANGE, which runs all year rather than only at Halloween. Pumpkin adult and child in 2022. Patriotic adult in 2022. Arctic adult in 2023. Scarecrow adult in 2025. Pub Crawl Santa in 2025. A Santa costume in 2025. Clown Robe adult in 2026. Harlequin adult in 2026. A full Reaper costume in 2026.

FOR WOMEN. A hooded gown. A women's robe dress. Hooded ponchos, plain and glittering. A Scream Catsuit. A pink bling dress.

THE UNUSUAL ONES. An adaptive costume catalogued in 2024, designed for wearers with additional access needs, which is rare for a horror license. An infant costume and a Baby Ghost Face. Pet costumes, including a Ghost Face Pet Rider and a Devil Rider in small, medium and large. A piggy back inflatable costume in 2024 and again in 2025, the gag where the wearer appears to be carried off. Light up fade mouth costumes. Zombie and bleeding versions. A Soul Reaper. An E.L. adult plus size and an E-Z pull over.

AND ONE OFF. In April 2026 Fun World made an exclusive shroud for Supreme, in black and red, as part of that label's spring and summer collection.

What the robes sell for

The record is the 1996 hero costume worn by both Billy Loomis and Stu Macher, lot 280 in Propstore's Los Angeles summer sale on August 15, 2024. It was estimated at fifty to a hundred thousand dollars and sold for $270,900 with the buyer's premium. The mask that went with it was screen matched to the first attack on Sidney by a dimple under one eye, a fault from the factory.

The Scream 2 hero robe signed by Wes Craven and Chris Durand was estimated at five to ten thousand at Prop Store's Los Angeles sale on June 28, 2023, and their record shows no winning bid, so it appears to have gone unsold. The Scream 2 Stab preview robe sold in London on November 14, 2024 for £2,520 against three bids.

Masks on their own tell the same story at a smaller scale. A hero mask from the first film, used in the scene where Ghost Face strangles Casey Becker, sold at RR Auction on June 23, 2016 for $6,145. Nine years later the market had moved by an order of magnitude: when a screen used Scream 7 mask and a signed set mask went up for the Brooke Jackman Foundation charity auction on October 16, 2025, each signed by Neve Campbell and Kevin Williamson, bidding opened at ten thousand dollars.

Premiere Props ran a dedicated Scream 4 auction on April 16, 2011 including several robes, with estimates from a hundred dollars to twenty five thousand; the realized prices sit behind a login.

Background costumes sell far lower, which tells you how much of the value is in being a hero build. The Scream 4 Stab-a-thon attendee costume, essentially a store bought costume, was estimated at fifteen hundred to three thousand pounds. The Scream 6 subway costume is due to sell in Los Angeles on August 26, 2026 at an estimate of eight to sixteen thousand dollars.

No screen used robe from Scream 3, Scream 5 or Scream 7 has a documented public sale.

How he got it

Roger L. Jackson, born July 13, 1958, is an American voice actor whose other best known part is Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls. He came to Scream off the back of his work on Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, and the immediate reason he was hired was practical rather than artistic. Drew Barrymore wanted a real actor on the other end of the line for the opening scene, instead of a script supervisor reading the killer's half.

How he did it

He worked live during shooting rather than recording afterwards. For the opening he crouched outside the house with a fully miked telephone, watching Barrymore through the glass, playing the scene in real time. He called actors from out in the rain and from upstairs bedrooms. He improvised lines that were not in the script.

Craven deliberately kept him away from the rest of the cast so that nobody had a face to attach to the voice, and the cast reportedly did not meet him until the shoot had wrapped. Jackson has described the intent as seductive and playful and then suddenly vicious, comparing it to a cat that seems friendly right up until the paw comes down.

The voice changer, film by film

He has voiced all seven films. On Scream 5 he was, for the first time, given a proper place in the main end credits under an image of Ghost Face rather than being buried near the bottom as The Voice. He also voiced the character in the third season of the television series and in the licensed games.

Inside the story, the reason every killer sounds identical is that they are all using a voice changer, and the device itself has quietly updated with the technology of each film. It is a white rectangular box in the first two, a round unit with several buttons in the third which can imitate specific people rather than just disguise the user, and by the fourth it is an app on a phone.

The device is a white rectangular box in the first two films, a round unit with several buttons in the third, and an app on a phone by the fourth.

The replicas we use

The voice changers StabMovies.com uses in our films come from Multiverse Replicas on Etsy, and they look far closer to the device the killers hold on screen than anything sold as a toy.

There are two. The Goldtronic Deluxe Voice Changer prop, and a digital only voice changer prop replica. Both are shown below and both are linked.

The knife itself

Buck Knives goes back to 1902, when Hoyt Buck worked out a way of heat treating steel, and the family went into knife making properly in San Diego after the Second World War. The 120 General is one of their largest fixed blades and dates to the early 1960s. Collectors place the earliest examples right after the company incorporated in April 1961, with the first ones using leather spacers and slightly later ones using red spacers with a pinned pommel.

The one you can buy now has a seven and three eighths inch, or 18.7 centimeter, clip point blade in 420HC stainless steel, with a black phenolic handle or a cocobolo one, and a leather sheath. Overall it is eleven and seven eighths inches, or 30.2 centimeters, long and weighs about eight and a third ounces, or 236 grams, with blade stock of 0.175 inches, or 4.4 millimeters, a hardness of 58 to 60, an aluminum guard and an aluminum butt cap. It is made in the United States. The vintage ones the films used had the same dimensions and a blood groove down the blade.

Buck dropped the 120 from the catalog after 2001 and for about ten years it only existed as special runs for bulk buyers and shops like Cabela's. A Boone and Crockett version turned up in 2011. When it properly returned it was not identical: the blade is slimmer and the finger notch beside the guard is deeper. Suggested retail is $155 and the street price is around $125.

To tell a real one, Buck publishes a date code chart, and a knife that cannot be placed on it is suspect. In 2002 only, Buck stamped an anvil symbol instead of the model number, which makes that year unmistakable. Collectors date fixed blades by the tang stamp and the number of spacers: a single line stamp for roughly 1963 to 1966, a starred Buck stamp in 1967, Buck USA with hard fiber spacers from about 1967 to 1969 and micarta from about 1969 to 1971, an inverted stamp in 1972, four micarta spacers through the 1970s, three in early 1981 and two from late 1981 to 1995. Every real one is marked as made in the USA and carries Buck's lifetime warranty, which is a practical way to check, because Buck will look at the knife. A knife sold as vintage that has the slim modern blade and the deep notch is not vintage.

How it got into the film

Kevin Williamson's script, then called Scary Movie, did not name this knife. For most of the screenplay the weapon is only flashes of silver or the blade of his knife, and where it does commit, in the finale, it asks for a butcher knife of the Michael Myers sort. So the Buck was a production decision, not a scripted one.

The reasoning put to Wes Craven was that the weapon should look domestic and scavenged. Collector Nate Ragon, quoted in a detailed 2020 study of the prop, described Craven wanting something that looked like it could have come out of Stu or Billy's dad's garage. The size of the blade was the other reason.

The 120 already had a slasher history in 1996, though only as artwork. It appears on the posters for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Part VII and Part VIII without ever appearing in any of those films.

The versions built for set

Films do not stab people with real knives. Blades were made from aluminum, or from plastic finished in chrome paint, on a rubber handle, and which one got used depended on the shot.

SCREAM, 1996. Three types. A retractable blade version, a rubber stunt knife, and a real Buck 120 with the edge dulled as the hero knife. A surviving foam rubber stunt knife with a black painted handle and a silver blade, about twelve inches, or thirty and a half centimeters, long and still carrying stage blood, was used by the different performers playing the killer in fight scenes where a metal blade would have been unsafe, and it appears to have been reused on the second film.

SCREAM 2, 1997. Purpose built rather than modified Bucks. The blade is wider than the original and was custom made. The hero knife is chrome plated resin, and no other film in the series made them that way.

SCREAM 3, 2000. Back to a dulled real Buck 120 as the hero knife.

SCREAM 4, 2011. A larger knife, wider blade and longer handle. Craven wanted it bigger so the shiny pommel would not disappear inside the glove. The stunt knives have gaff tape wound round the handle, most likely so the stunt performer could keep hold of it through the costume's slippery gloves. A surviving one has a dense rubber blade on a plastic handle with flake resistant paint, a strip of black tape and dried stage blood. The 2011 prop sale also listed a foam blade made to look like metal, a white plastic machete about twenty one inches, or 53.3 centimeters, long, and a grey plastic cleaver about sixteen and a half inches, or 41.9 centimeters, long.

SCREAM 5, 2022. Stunt knives molded in plastic, black grip, silver colored guard, pommel and blade. The surviving one shows bending, chipping and heat bubbling from use. The maker is known here: it came with a letter from Bearded Skulls MUFX Group, a North Carolina effects and prop outfit run by Tony Rosen, Rick Pour, Jason Willis, Jeff Goodwin and Sean Beck, who also worked on Halloween Kills and The Black Phone.

Rubber stunt knives and retractable knives were made for every production in the original run.

What they sell for

Prop Store's Los Angeles sale in June 2022 put two knives up in consecutive lots.

Lot 309, Billy Loomis' knife from the 1996 film, a cast rubber stunt knife with a black grip and silver colored guard, pommel and blade, with heavy paint chipping and minor blood staining, fourteen by eight by five inches, or 35.6 by 20.3 by 12.7 centimeters. Estimated at five to seven thousand dollars. It took ten bids and sold for $15,120.

Lot 310, the stunt knife from the 2022 film, plastic, twelve by two and a half by one inches, or 30.5 by 6.4 by 2.5 centimeters, with bending, chipping to the pommel, bubbling and a piece missing from the tip. Estimated at four to six thousand. Fifteen bids, $11,340.

The Scream 2 hero knife sold in London on May 28, 2014, catalogued as modeled on the Buck 120, made of chrome plated resin, with production stage blood still on the dull blade, and an original black leather case from the production. The Scream 4 bloody knife sold on March 11, 2015 with its original carrying case.

Premiere Props ran a 302 lot Scream 4 sale in El Segundo on April 16, 2011, which included Sidney Prescott's hero knife with a foam blade made to look like metal, the white plastic machete and the grey plastic cleaver.

The licensed replicas

Fun World is the licensor, with Morris Costumes distributing. The item numbers are the reliable way to identify them, and retailers prefix them with FW.

93603 is the polyurethane foam knife, the closest thing to a licensed Buck 120 replica, sold as matching the character's knife in design and size. 90291BBGF is a fifteen inch, or 38.1 centimeter, plastic bloody butcher knife. 90747 is a thirteen inch, or 33 centimeter, chrome bowie. 90713 is the deluxe chrome bloody blade. 96966 is a fifteen inch, or 38.1 centimeter, reflection knife. 97017 is a seven color LED cyber blade with three lighting functions. 90964CGF is a fifteen inch, or 38.1 centimeter, chef knife with a Ghost Face graphic on the blade. 9386S is a twenty one inch, or 53.3 centimeter, black and silver machete and 9386 is the plain Scream knife.

The bling range is its own set. 90750 is an eleven and a half inch, or 29.2 centimeter, knife with a black handle and a rhinestone blade, with red rhinestones along the edge standing in for blood. 90760C is a sixteen and a half inch, or 41.9 centimeter, cleaver, 90760M a twenty one inch, or 53.3 centimeter, machete, and 90760 is the parent assortment number. 93589 is a bloody bling mask and knife set. 93609 is a boxed set with a bling mask, a knife and a light up keychain. 93228 is a Ghost Face with knife accessory set.

The bleeding version exists as a mask and knife set rather than as a standalone bleeding blade. Spirit Halloween has also carried a light up knife with a black handle and a multi color blade.

Buck Knives has never made a Scream edition of the 120, and has never publicly acknowledged the connection.

How it is used

The knife works as a signature more than as a tool. Its first hero shot is the blade coming down on Casey Becker, and after that it is usually shown to a victim as a threat before it is used, starting with Sidney. The move people remember is the killer pinching the blade between thumb and finger and drawing the hand from handle to tip to wipe it clean after a kill.

In the first film, the three scenes where the killer appears without a knife are exactly the three that have been argued to be a prankster rather than Billy or Stu: the school bathroom, the bushes outside Tatum's house, and the grocery store. Billy is also seen turning the blade inward at one point.

In the third film the killer throws the knife for the first time in the series. In the fourth the redesigned knife is big enough that it looks oversized in the hands of Jill and Charlie at the end.

The clearest departure is the sixth film, where the masked killer uses a shotgun in the bodega. Earlier films had killers use guns, but always with the mask off. The directors defended it deliberately. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin said they did not want it to be safe or boring, and Tyler Gillett framed it as putting the character more in the real world rather than the pratfalling version.

Outside the films, the Brandon James killer in the television series used a Buck 119 Special, a shorter model Buck has made since 1942, shorter model Buck brought in around the time the 120 left the catalog.

The first film

Three stunt performers wore the costume in 1996: Tony Cecere, Lee Waddell and Dane Farwell. Waddell did the opening with Drew Barrymore, the chase, and the killing of Principal Himbry, for which Henry Winkler coached him on how the scene should feel. Cecere cut the throat of the man in the van and has said he had to stand on a box to be tall enough.

Wes Craven put the mask on himself for the attack at Casey's window and afterwards said he would leave it to the stunt men. Skeet Ulrich wore it in some shots. Matthew Lillard never wore it at all.

Dane Farwell is credited with inventing several of the mannerisms that stuck, including wiping the knife clean after a kill.

Nine people wore it in the second film

Nine stunt performers wore the costume on the second film, and that was deliberate. If one body is inside the robe for a whole picture, an audience starts to read the walk. Swapping performers keeps the figure anonymous.

Named performers include Chris Durand, Dane Farwell, Lee Waddell, Ted Barba and Kurt Bryant. Durand did the Cici Cooper sequence, including throwing Sarah Michelle Gellar through the French doors, and as far as anyone has reported he is the only person to have played both Ghost Face and Michael Myers, the latter in Halloween H20 in 1998. Waddell did the car crash, the punch through the car window and the two officers.

Later films

Brian Avery is the performer most consistently named on the third film, which has the least well documented roster of the seven.

Dane Farwell returned for the fourth film and is credited on screen as Ghost Face.

On the fifth film, Matthew Lillard voiced the Ghost Face seen with a flamethrower in the film-within-the-film sequence, uncredited, and also voiced a partygoer. He still never wore the costume.

Max Laferriere wore it for every physical Ghost Face scene in the sixth film. He was working on the picture as a stunt coordinator when he was asked whether he wanted to be the killer. He has described the fight with Gale Weathers as four or five nights of night shoots, with the hardest part being breathing inside the mask across a two minute sequence, and has said Courteney Cox did most of her own stunt work in it.

Jeremy Conner is credited on screen as Ghost Face on the seventh film. Ethan Embry, who plays one of the killers, did not know he was playing one until the costume department handed him the pieces, and has said the costume supervisor was as surprised as he was.

Which mask went in front of which camera

The first film used Fun World's Fantastic Faces mask alongside a small number of stand ins built by KNB EFX and sculpted by Garrett Immel, because the license had not closed when shooting started. Roughly seven were made and the KNB masks are visible in the finished film, including the opening and the Himbry scenes. They have squintier eyes and a thinner mouth. Fun World sent a box of twenty five masks mid shoot and the licensed ones took over from there.

The second film used masks from the Fearsome Faces line, including a variant collectors know by the initials RDS, which has wider set eyes. The third used a mix of plain untagged 1997 stock and masks carrying the official Ghost Face tag in black and red. The fourth used the thicker Deluxe production mask, with masks from other molds turning up in pickup shots.

The sixth film's masks are the aged ones built by Avery Plewes, and the story treats the principal mask as Billy Loomis's original, kept and weathered. The tie in exhibition in Santa Monica displayed the weathered hero mask on a mannequin labeled with his name.

The Brandon James mask

Season one ran on MTV from June 30 to September 1, 2015. Season two ran from May 30 to August 16, 2016, with a Halloween special on October 18, 2016. Neither used the Ghost Face mask.

What they used instead is known as the Brandon James mask, worn by a killer the show calls the Lakewood Slasher. Fun World itself manufactured the retail version, sold at Halloween stores from 2015 as the MTV Scream adult mask, item FW-93501. It reads as a face rather than a ghost, with solid black eyes and a rounder mouth, and it is deliberately uglier and more surgical than Ghost Face.

Inside the story it belonged to Brandon James, a Lakewood boy with Proteus syndrome whose face was severely disfigured and who went through repeated reconstructive surgery. He wore post-surgical masks through childhood, kept wearing one to hide the disfigurement, and killed five students on Halloween in 1994. The mask was stolen about a year before the present day murders, which is how the new killer has it.

There are two explanations for why the show did not use the real mask. The producers framed it creatively, saying a new mask signalled that this was not the same Scream as the films. The likelier explanation, and the one usually reported, is that MTV had not secured the license from Fun World. The Lakewood Slasher was voiced by Mike Vaughn. The killers were Piper Shaw in season one and Kieran Wilcox in season two.

Season three and the switch

Season three, titled Scream: Resurrection, moved to VH1, threw out the cast and the setting, moved to Atlanta and ran as six episodes across three consecutive nights from July 8 to July 10, 2019, with Brett Matthews as showrunner and Queen Latifah among the executive producers.

It used the Ghost Face mask, because a deal was finally struck with Fun World during production. Roger L. Jackson took over the voice from Mike Vaughn. This was the first time the real mask appeared in the Scream television series. The killers were Beth and Jamal Elliot.

Who runs it

Ghost Face is a registered trademark of Fun World, and the brand is administered by R. J. Torbert as Director of Licensing and Brand Enforcement. He is the name attached to almost every licensed partner announcement, and the enforcement half of that title is not decoration: Fun World actively chases counterfeits and has had fake shipments stopped at borders.

Retail has run mainly through Walmart, Party City, Spencer's, Spirit Halloween and Amazon, with Mad About Horror handling a run of United Kingdom exclusives that never got general distribution.

The 1990s and 2000s

The merchandise did not start in 2010. It started before the film, and the numbered products of the first fifteen years are a different world from the modern range.

Item 9206 is where it begins, in 1992: a glow in the dark ghost mask with a shroud, sold as an assortment. Item 9207 was the same thing in fluorescent colors that react to a blacklight, and it only ever used the original four faces. In 1995 the 9206 assortment was expanded with two more designs, Melty and Grinning.

The first costumes rather than mask and shroud sets arrive around the same time. Item 9223 in 1995 was an all in one mask and gown, a child sized vest with a polyester shroud. Item 9219 in 1996 was sold as Instant Disguise, an adult throw over costume with a long cape and a droop collar hood, using the Weeping face. Item 8919 in 1997 was the same idea without the cape. Item 9225 in 1996 was a ghost mask with a fancy shroud, using latex faces with textured detail and polyester hoods.

Fun World was also making decorations well before the modern yard range. Item 9837, from 1994 onward, was a wall and door plaque with a shroud, with motion sensor eyes that lit up and made a noise. Item 9854 was a six foot, or 183 centimeter, ghoul, an inflatable body with a light up head, and after the film it was reissued with an all black body.

The film changes everything in 1997 and 1998. The Scream Stalker costume line launches in 1997 in child, teen, adult and plus sizes, each a black cloak with a mask on a head strap. There was a seven foot, or 213 centimeter, Scream Stalker as well. In 1998 the Weeping face was pulled out of the 9206 assortment and given its own number, S9206, sold as the Scream Stalker mask with shroud under the official license. A bleeding version joined the line in 1999.

In 2000 came item 8511, the Scary Movie assortment, with the Whassup, Smiley and Stoned expressions and costume versions of each. Item 8510 the same year was a friendly ghost mask, a cartoon version for younger children in white and fluorescent orange. Item 8501 in 2002 was the metallic mask with shroud.

On the toy side, McFarlane Toys made the first significant Ghost Face figure in 1999, in Movie Maniacs Series 2.

Toys, records and tapes before 2010

McFarlane Toys made the first significant Ghost Face figure in September 1999, in Movie Maniacs Series 2, alongside Chucky, Norman Bates, Michael Myers and Pumpkinhead. It is a six inch, or fifteen centimeter, figure in a clamshell, manufacturer number 17205, and it came with a cell phone, a hunting knife and a rolled movie poster with a piece of theater marquee. There are two packaging versions, and the only difference is which poster is inside: a Ghost Face poster or the Scream theatrical poster. The card prints the license credits to Fun World and Easter Unlimited for the mask and Miramax for the film.

Spencer Gifts made an eighteen inch, or 46 centimeter, Ghost Face doll for its R.I.P. Horror Collector Series around 1997 and 1998. Every one is individually numbered to an edition of one hundred thousand, and it has a record your own voice feature worked by pressing the doll's stomach. The same line made Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers dolls in editions of thirty thousand.

The first soundtrack, Scream: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture, came out on TVT Soundtrax in December 1996, catalog TVT 8080-2. It opens with Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Gus Black's acoustic Don't Fear the Reaper, and carries one Marco Beltrami cue. A 1997 European pressing added a Republica track. Scream 2's soundtrack came from Capitol Records on November 18, 1997, reached number fifty on the Billboard 200 and went gold. Beltrami's actual score for both films was collected on one disc by Varese Sarabande on July 14, 1998, catalog VSD-5959. Scream 3: The Album followed on Wind-up Records in 2000.

Scream reached tape and laserdisc in June 1997 and was the second most rented film in the United States that year. The tape was Dimension Home Video item 12633 in a slipcase. Scream 2 followed as item 13553 in 1998.

The Dimension Collector's Series DVD, released December 8, 1998, is the real special edition of the era. It has a commentary from Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, a making of documentary, behind the scenes footage, two cast and crew question and answer sessions, a special effects photo gallery that includes preliminary mask designs, a trivia section, seven television spots and both trailers.

The Ultimate Scream Collection arrived on September 26, 2000: four discs, the three films plus a bonus disc, with a twenty four page booklet printed on heavy stock and sized to fit a DVD case. The bonus disc holds five minutes of outtakes, a thirty minute documentary, about eight minutes of screen tests, an interactive editing workshop, nine fake trailers, and computer content including a trivia game, the screenplay and screensavers.

In print, Miramax Books published Scream: A Screenplay by Kevin Williamson with an introduction by Wes Craven on December 31, 1997. Brian J. Robb's Screams and Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven came out in 1998 and covers the film. In Germany, Christian Lukas wrote a 494 page book on the trilogy for Heyne in 2000. Fangoria put the series on its cover once, issue 189 dated January 2000, for Scream 3.

Costumes

The costume line is far and away the biggest category, and it splits three ways.

The evergreen part is the plain adult and child robe and mask, plus a plus size adult and a pull over version. Then there are the film tie ins: a Scream 4 collector's edition, a 25th anniversary movie edition in adult and child, and for the sixth film a whole family of aged mask costumes in adult, child and deluxe trims, with an extra large following the year after.

The third part is where the money clearly is now. Since 2024 Fun World has pushed hard into novelty finishes: bling mask costumes for men and women, a bloody bling, glitter and pastel pink sparkle for children, a plain pink adult, a crimson deluxe in red lurex with a bloody mask, shimmer gold, pearl velour, two tone chrome, a pink chrome toddler dress, and fluorescent green and orange in both adult and child. The crimson deluxe was the fourth best selling Ghost Face collectible tracked for 2025.

The seasonal crossovers keep going all year rather than stopping at Halloween. Pumpkin and patriotic in 2022, arctic in 2023, scarecrow and a pub crawl Santa in 2025, a clown robe, a harlequin and a full Reaper costume in 2026. There are hooded gowns, robe dresses, ponchos plain and glittering, and a catsuit.

Two entries stand out. Fun World made an adaptive costume, cataloged in 2024, designed for wearers with additional access needs, which is genuinely rare for a horror license. And the range now runs from an infant costume all the way to pet costumes, including a Ghost Face pet rider and a devil rider in two sizes.

There is also a Dead by Daylight sub line, because the character appears in that game: a devil face adult and child in 2021, an Icebound Phantom child in 2023, and a masquerade version in 2024.

Voice changers

This is a properly versioned product line rather than one item repeated. There is a classic unit and a Cool Stuff unit from 2020, an eight voices model in 2021, the 25th anniversary deluxe in 2021, the Slayer Kit in 2022 which packs a changer in with a mask, gloves and a buck knife, and a light up mask, knife and changer set in 2023.

The 25th anniversary deluxe is the best documented. It carries Fun World item number 90791GF and sold through Walmart, Target and Amazon. It never got general distribution in the United Kingdom, so Mad About Horror imported it, which is also how the 2022 Slayer Kit reached British buyers alongside a pumpkin mask and a six foot, or 183 centimeter, standing figure.

What could not be established is whether any version uses Roger L. Jackson's actual recorded film lines rather than plain pitch shifting.

Knives and props

The blade line is long: a buck knife, a bowie, a butcher knife, a chef knife, a Scream 4 chef knife accessory, a bleeding knife, a light up knife, a bleeding machete, a reflection knife, a Ghost Face Lives bling knife, a bling butcher knife, a bling cleaver, a bling machete, a foam polyurethane knife sold as authentic size and design, and a deluxe chrome bloody blade in red. Spirit Halloween sells a Ghost Face knife block for an actual kitchen.

Away from blades there is a phone with sound from 2025, and, more interesting for collectors, a Casey Becker phone replica and a Casey Becker prop kit that recreate items from the opening of the first film. There are replica notebooks too, for Knife of Doom, Ghost Face Returns and the Woodsboro Murders.

Mask and knife bundles are a recurring line of their own, running from a 2021 kit through to a bleeding mask and knife set in 2025.

Figures and collectibles

McFarlane Toys got there first, with a Ghost Face in Movie Maniacs Series 2 in 1999.

NECA has the deepest ongoing line. The seven inch, or eighteen centimeter, Ultimate and the six inch, or fifteen centimeter, stylised Toony Terrors arrived around 2020 and 2021. Ultimate Ghost Face Inferno followed in 2024 at $34.99, and it is the most loaded figure of the lot: four interchangeable masks in chrome, white, devil and aged, a chrome knife, a bloodied chrome knife, a pitchfork, a flamethrower with a flame attachment, two machetes, a cloth cloak that opens, three hood options, and for the first time at retail, the knife wipe hand. Ultimate Ghost Face Returns came after it. NECA also makes the spring mounted novelties, the Head Knocker, a pumpkin head version, an extreme head knocker and a body knocker. There was a Scream 4 wave at prototype stage around 2010 and 2011, including a zombie version, and whether it ever reached shops is not settled.

Funko has produced Ghost Face across nearly every format it makes. The core Pop is number 51, which is early enough to be collected in its own right. Beyond that there is a glow in the dark, a jumbo, a pocket Pop, Mopeez, a ReAction figure under the Horror Classics banner, a bloody Hot Topic exclusive, a Valentine, a Santa, a blacklight exclusive numbered 1607, a distressed TargetCon exclusive numbered 1962, a VHS cover metallic, a tongue in cheek, an Amazon exclusive devil mask and a keychain. For the seventh film in February 2026 Funko put out a shelf sitter, number 2002, made to hang its legs off the edge of a shelf. The jumbo Pop was the thirteenth best seller of 2025.

Mezco covers the character through Living Dead Dolls at ten inches, or 25 centimeters, with an aged version, a bloody glow in the dark Entertainment Earth exclusive, and a Ghost Face Lives release. Mezco also made an eighteen inch, or 46 centimeter, plush.

Mego makes an eight inch, or twenty centimeter, retro cloth costumed figure in assorted mask colors including purple and red, and puts it in a six pack horror assortment. Listings date it to around 2022 and 2023.

Youtooz launched a three figure collection on Friday October 13, 2023 at three in the afternoon: a blood splattered Ghost Face, an aged mask version and a glow in the dark. It was developed directly with Torbert, whom Youtooz described as willing to push things creatively. Alongside it they released Dead Meat's James and Chelsea, tying to their cameo in the fifth film. A Sidney Prescott figure, plushes and pin sets followed.

Handmade by Robots runs the biggest numbered edition program of any licensee, making knitted look vinyl figures with sequential numbers. Documented releases include number 100 in limited edition pink, 259 candy corn scented, 263 pumpkin orange and 264 the same in glow in the dark, plus a large Christmas series: Jacob Marley at 320, 324, 328 and 332, Krampus at 323, 327, 331 and 339, The Gift Giver at 322 and 334, and 'Tis The Season at 321, 325, 333 and 337, in pearlescent, electroplated, translucent, frozen, glow in the dark and scented finishes including peppermint, pine and cinnamon.

Two Handmade by Robots facts are worth having. A 2022 collaboration with HelloSidney produced a bloody full size figure and a four pack of minis limited to 720 pieces in total, sold only through the maker's own fan site, and the bloody one sold out in four hours. And the company sent figures to the crew of the sixth film as gifts, which is how they ended up visible on screen in the film itself.

Kidrobot makes the eight inch, or twenty centimeter, Phunny, including a blood splatter version and a glow in the dark roto. Fright Rags makes a retro styled sub line in classic, aged and devil finishes plus mini masks. There is also an electroplated gold mask figure, a horror baby static prop and, inevitably, a rubber duck.

One thing to be careful of: there is no evidence of an officially licensed Trick or Treat Studios Ghost Face. The mask and costume license sits with Fun World. Treat any such claim as unverified.

Bobbleheads

Royal Bobbles is the main licensee here, with an eight inch, or twenty centimeter, figure in hand painted molded resin, showing the hooded robe with its jagged trim and flowing sleeves. There is a version two, a silver chrome mask edition from 2022, a three inch, or 7.6 centimeter, Go! Bobble mini from 2024, a pumpkin version, a glow in the dark Hot Topic exclusive and a VHS store Hot Topic exclusive.

Life size figures, animatronics and decor

The best documented life size piece is Spirit Halloween's animated six foot, or 183 centimeter, Ghost Face, tied to the fourth film and built by Gemmy, sold from 2011 to 2014. It stands over six feet, or over 183 centimeters, works on motion or a push button, turns side to side, swings a knife, has lit white eyes and posable arms, speaks six phrases, and runs off a mains adapter on a seventy foot, or 21 meter, cord.

Later pieces include a five point four foot, or 165 centimeter, prop in 2021, a six point two foot, or 189 centimeter, deluxe animatronic in 2024, a six foot, or 183 centimeter, static figure the same year, and a six foot eight inch, or 203 centimeter, animatronic listed by Spirit Halloween.

The inflatables are the loudest part of the decor range: a lurking inflatable in 2023, six foot, or 183 centimeter, plain and light up versions in 2024, a twelve foot, or 3.7 meter, black lawn inflatable, and Gemmy's three and a half foot, or 107 centimeter, airblown with a jack-o'-lantern.

The static and lighting decor list is long and getting longer. A grave breaker, a scarecrow, a party projector, string lights, a window scary peeper and a light up six foot, or 183 centimeter, pumpkin all in 2022. An aged window creeper, a twenty one inch, or 53 centimeter, blacklight tombstone and hanging window lites in 2024. A crawling dead decoration in 2025 and a ten foot, or three meter, standing outdoor figure in 2026. There is a door cover, a Do You Like Scary Movies banner, and a pumpkin carving kit.

The Christmas crossover is deeper than you would expect. There is the shatterproof decoupage tree ornament, a Spirit Halloween nutcracker holding a bloody knife, a Santa costume, and the whole Handmade by Robots Christmas series.

Everything else you can buy

Plush runs from a plain 2021 figure through a Spirit Halloween exclusive with a knife, a six inch, or fifteen centimeter, window clinger, plush backpacks plain and bloody, a heart eyes plush and a Punchkins. The cute Youtooz plush in a pink mask was twelfth best selling in 2025.

Keychains and pins are their own small industry: a Funko keychain, a Bioworld molded Ghost Face with a knife charm, a rhinestone bag charm, a mini wool hat keychain with a pocket, an eight pack villains keyring, and enamel pins including a Hot Topic one, a What's Your Favorite Scary Movie one, three packs, patch and pin sets and two Youtooz pin sets. For blind box, there are mystery plush bag clips from Culture Fly cataloged in July 2026.

SCREAM: The Game came from Funko Games in June 2023 at $19.99. It is cooperative, you move between locations playing cards that match Ghost Face's demands against a countdown, and the companion app has Roger L. Jackson making real phone calls to players. If Ghost Face rings you, you are next.

There is no official LEGO set. What exists is a Macher House building block set, a miniature diorama of the house from the first film, cataloged in July 2025, which was the second best selling Ghost Face item of the year. Its manufacturer could not be identified.

Bioworld dominates clothing, with a wallet, a lanyard, a dad hat, an embroidered A frame snapback, blood design crew socks, t-shirts, pajamas, a mug and sweatshirts. The snapback was seventh and the socks eleventh best selling in 2025. PSD Underwear made a licensed range for men and women in August 2021. Cavity Colors made a baseball shirt. Hot Topic has exclusive backpacks including a glow in the dark mini. There are beanies, a hooded wearable blanket, a Stab makeup bag, earbud covers and a knife through the head headband.

Jewelry is modest but real: dangle earrings, a large earring set, a six pair set, a choker, a choker and earring set, and sterling silver earrings from Dreamboat in 2024.

Fun World runs its own cosmetics sub brand. There is a makeup kit for lips and nails and press on nails, both 2025, blood drip and glitter nail variants, a makeup egg sponge from 2021, realistic fake blood face and body paint, and a nine piece horror effects kit. There is no evidence of a tie up with a mainstream cosmetics house.

For drinkware, the standout is the Geeki Tikis mug from Beeline Creative, nineteen ounces, or 562 milliliters, of sculpted ceramic. There are also molded coffee mugs at sixteen and seventeen ounces, or 473 and 503 milliliters, a heat change mug, a mug magic cup, Scream 6 logo mugs in black and silver, a Stab mug, a villains mug, shot glasses, a bowl, and a forty ounce, or 1.2 liter, stainless tumbler with a dagger for a handle, which was ninth best selling in 2025.

There is no officially licensed jigsaw puzzle that could be found. Searching a database of over four hundred and seventy licensed products for the word puzzle returned nothing, and everything on the open web was print on demand. Treat that category as empty until something turns up.

Plush

Plush and clothing are the two categories that have grown fastest, and between them they are where most of the license's volume now sits.

Clothing and accessories

Bioworld dominates this end of the license, with hats, socks, backpacks, sleepwear and shirts.

Keychains, pins and jewelry

The small things, which is also where the only genuinely premium item sits: sterling silver earrings from Dreamboat in 2024.

Drinkware

Mugs, tumblers and shot glasses, including a heat reactive mug that changes picture when you fill it.

For the garden

Yard decorations, inflatables, tombstones and lighting.

Replicas and games

Prop replicas of things from the films, and the games.

More figures

The rest of the figure lines, from McFarlane in 1999 through to Handmade by Robots.

Tape and laserdisc

Scream reached tape and laserdisc in June 1997 and was the second most rented film in the United States that year. The tape was Dimension Home Video item 12633 in a printed slipcase, pan and scan. A widescreen collector's edition tape followed in December 1997 in a box, letterboxed at 2.35 to 1, with a behind the scenes piece the first tape did not have. The British tape carries the cut version the censors passed rather than the American master.

Scream 2 followed as item 13553 on December 1, 1998. Scream 3 arrived in a red box on July 4, 2000, and there is a trade only demo tape of it as well, with a 117 minute presentation reel instead of the retail packaging.

The laserdisc of the first film came out the same June, catalog 10499 AS, sold as the Director's Cut with DTS and AC-3 audio the tape did not carry. Scream 2 got an American laserdisc in December 1998. Japan got more: Pioneer put out a three sided deluxe box of Scream on December 23, 1998, catalog PILF-2674, with a whole side of cast and director interviews, and a Scream 3 disc on November 8, 2000, catalog PILF-2844, which is one of the last laserdiscs anybody pressed.

And then it happened again. Lionsgate pressed a brand new playable videocassette of Scream 4 on June 9, 2026, to sit beside the 4K restoration.

DVD and Blu-ray

The first DVD of Scream came out on December 3, 1997 with nothing on it. The Dimension Collector's Series of December 8, 1998 is the one that matters: commentary from Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson, a making of, behind the scenes footage, two cast and crew question and answer sessions, a special effects photo gallery that includes the preliminary mask designs, a trivia section, seven television spots and both trailers.

The Ultimate Scream Collection arrived on September 26, 2000: four discs, the three films plus a bonus disc, with a twenty four page booklet. The bonus disc holds five minutes of outtakes, a thirty minute documentary, about eight minutes of screen tests, an interactive editing workshop, nine fake trailers, and computer content including a trivia game, the screenplay and screensavers.

Scream 2 got a plain disc on July 22, 1998 and a collector's edition on August 7, 2001. Scream 3 only ever came out as a collector's edition, on July 4, 2000. When the rights moved, Lionsgate repackaged all three on April 26, 2011 with new artwork and the same extras, and put out a three film set that September. Paramount reissued the first film on DVD for the anniversary on October 19, 2021, adding the retrospective A Bloody Legacy.

Scream 4 came out on DVD and Blu-ray on October 4, 2011 with commentary by Craven, Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere, twenty six minutes of deleted and extended scenes and a gag reel. Target sold a three disc version with a soundtrack CD in it. Walmart had its own single disc version, and another one in 2023.

The first Blu-rays of the original three came from Lionsgate on March 29, 2011. The five film set that September adds Still Screaming and Scream: The Inside Story, which are the two documentaries about the series. Paramount remastered the first film for November 2, 2021 and the second and third for September 7, 2021.

Scream 5 came out on April 5, 2022 and Scream 6 on July 11, 2023, both with commentary and a run of making of pieces. Scream 7 followed on June 16, 2026.

The television series got exactly one physical release anywhere: season one, three discs, May 10, 2016, with a gag reel, deleted scenes and a promotional gallery. Season two and the Resurrection special have never been pressed on anything.

4K and steelbooks

Scream reached 4K on October 19, 2021 for the twenty fifth anniversary, in Dolby Vision and HDR10, with a steelbook version at the same time. It has been pressed as a steelbook three times now, in 2021, again on February 28, 2023, and again on February 17, 2026.

Scream 2 followed on October 4, 2022 from a fresh 4K scan, with a limited steelbook and a Zavvi exclusive steelbook in Britain. Scream 3 came on October 3, 2023 as a single disc with no Blu-ray beside it, plus a blood red steelbook. The same day brought Scream: The Original Trilogy, eight discs in an embossed box with both documentaries.

Scream 4 waited the longest. Lionsgate restored it for June 9, 2026, in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, with four newly made retrospective pieces, and a Lionsgate Limited steelbook with artwork by gnah studios.

Scream 5 came out in 4K on April 5, 2022, with a Best Buy steelbook and a Walmart version that came with a poster. Scream 6 followed on July 11, 2023 on a BD-100 disc with Dolby Atmos, and a steelbook showing Ghost Face through a subway window. Scream 7 landed on June 16, 2026, with a steelbook and an Amazon gift set of five thousand that packs in a Handmade by Robots vinyl figure.

Australia got the first box anywhere with Scream 4 in it, on October 13, 2011. Britain got the only six film Blu-ray box, on July 10, 2023.

The records

Scream: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture came out on TVT Soundtrax on December 20, 1996, catalog TVT 8080-2, on compact disc and cassette. It opens with Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Gus Black's acoustic Don't Fear the Reaper, and carries one Marco Beltrami cue. A 1997 European pressing added a Republica track.

Scream 2 came from Capitol Records on November 18, 1997, reached number fifty on the Billboard 200 and went gold. Scream 3: The Album came from Wind-up Records on January 25, 2000, went gold as well, and there is a lenticular cover variant of it. Scream 4 songs came from Lakeshore Records on April 12, 2011.

Beltrami's actual scores took longer. The first two films were collected on one short disc by Varese Sarabande on July 14, 1998, catalog VSD-5959. Scream 3 got a full score album on February 29, 2000 and Scream 4 on April 19, 2011.

Vinyl arrived on September 16, 2016, three thousand copies on 180 gram in bone white and blood splatter, repressed on red in July 2019. Then the big ones: a six disc box of all four scores expanded, January 7, 2022, eighteen hundred made, with a sixth disc of alternates, outtakes and demos. And a four record box on June 10, 2022, red with black smoke, two hours of music never released before, in a die cut sleeve that opens out into a three foot Ghost Face poster.

Brian Tyler's score for Scream 5 came out on June 10, 2022 on record and on compact disc, the disc limited to eighteen hundred. Scream 6, by Tyler and Sven Faulconer, came as a double compact disc on September 1, 2023 and a double record in stab green on December 1, 2023, a thousand copies, with a sleeve by Doaly.

There has never been a Scream film on UMD, and there has never been a Scream game released on a disc or a cartridge.

Funko

Funko made one Ghost Face Pop in the 2010s, number 51, in 2014, and then left it alone for ten years. It was vaulted for most of that time and it is the only Scream Pop of the whole decade.

The line restarted in 2024 with number 1607, and that one figure has been reissued in glow in the dark vinyl, in a bloody Hot Topic version, and in blacklight paint as an Entertainment Earth exclusive. Number 1608 is the same sculpt blown up to nine and seven eighths inches, or twenty five centimeters.

After that they got stranger. Number 1725 holds a heart shaped box of chocolates and wears a pink and red robe, and there is a Diamond version of it covered in glitter. Number 1962 is a Target exclusive with a cracked and weathered mask. Number 2002 sits on the edge of a shelf with its legs hanging off. Number 2035 has the tongue coming through the cheek. Number 2036 is a metallic figure fixed to a videocassette cover and sealed in a hard case so you cannot take it out. Number 2037 wears the devil mask, number 2074 is dressed as Santa, and number 2114 carries a pitchfork.

Outside the Pop line there is a Pocket Pop keychain, an inch and a half or four centimeters tall, a blind boxed version of it where you do not know which one is in the bag, and a Mystery Mini from Horror Classics Series 1 in 2014, packed two in every twenty four boxes.

Ghost Face has never been made as a Pop Ride, a Pop Moment, a Pop Deluxe, a Bitty Pop, a Vinyl SODA or a Funko plush.

NECA

NECA has made the most serious Ghost Face figures anybody has made.

The eight inch, or twenty centimeter, clothed figure from 2020 is the retro one, with real tailored clothing, swappable faces, heads and hands, a clean knife, a bloody knife and a voice changer. Toony Terrors Series 5 in 2021 is the cartoon version, six inches or fifteen centimeters. The same year brought two things that are not really figures at all: a resin bobblehead holding a jack-o-lantern, and a body knocker that rocks side to side off a solar cell with no batteries in it.

The Ultimate figure of 2021 is the flagship. Seven inches, or eighteen centimeters, a fabric robe, four heads including a glow in the dark one, three knives and a scythe. Ultimate Ghost Face Inferno followed in 2024 with chrome, white, devil and aged masks, three hoods, a flamethrower, a pitchfork and two machetes, and it is the first one to include a hand shaped for the blade wipe. Ultimate Ghost Face Returns arrived in 2026 with rebuilt joints and five faces including Whassup and a bling mask, plus a bone saw, an axe, a chrome knife, a rusted knife and a voice changer.

In 2026 NECA put Ghost Face in the Ben Cooper Costume Kids line, which is a child wearing a cheap vinyl Halloween costume of the character, and it only comes in the five figure bundle.

Kidrobot, which NECA sells through, made three eight inch Dunny art figures in 2026, all wearing real cloth cloaks: chrome, six hundred made, aged, a hundred and fifty made, and a bloody one that glows in the dark.

Masks you can buy right now

This is the current retail range as one shop lists it, which is the clearest picture anybody gets of how wide the line has become.

The plain mask and the child mask. The aged mask, the deluxe aged mask and an aged mask with a blood pump. The twenty fifth and thirtieth anniversary masks. Color change, disco mirror, bling, bloody bling, pumpkin, pride, patriotic, Santa, scarecrow, reaper, clown and Uncle Sam. And the three Scary Movie spoof faces, Wass Up, Stoned and Smiley, plus a bleeding Wass Up.

Costumes you can buy right now

The costume range runs from a toddler up to plus size and out sideways into things nobody would have predicted in 1996.

Plain adult, child, teen and plus size. Aged. Thirtieth anniversary. Crimson deluxe, midnight red, splatter. Deluxe bling and bloody bling. Harlequin, Skele-Stone, pink gauze, two tone chrome and glamour. A glitter poncho you pull on over your own clothes. An E.L. costume with electroluminescent wire in it, and a light up fade mouth version for children. Bleeding. Scarecrow. Reaper. A Santa pub crawl costume. Patriotic. Both Dead by Daylight skins, the plain one and Twisted Masquerade. Two inflatables, one where Ghost Face is carrying you and one where you are carrying Ghost Face. A pet costume, and a pet rider vest that makes it look like Ghost Face is riding your dog.

Props and decorations you can buy right now

The voice changer, the deluxe twenty fifth anniversary one, and a phone prop that plays the call.

Knives: a thirteen inch or 33 centimeter bowie, a bling knife at ten and a half inches or 27 centimeters, a reflection knife, a butcher knife, a bloody blade, and the foam knife which is the closest thing to a licensed Buck 120 replica. There are kits that pair a mask with a knife, and the Slayer Kit which packs in gloves as well.

For the house and the garden: a six foot or 183 centimeter standing figure, a five foot or 152 centimeter figure on a swing, a five foot flying one, a five foot scarecrow, a six foot inflatable, an eleven inch or 28 centimeter animated figure that sits and moves and makes noise, a twenty inch or 51 centimeter figure for a shelf, a cut out silhouette with a spotlight to throw it on a wall, a window peeper that looks in at you, and a string of ten Ghost Face lights.

The books

Kevin Williamson's shooting script was published by Miramax Books in 1997 as Scream: A Screenplay, with an introduction by Wes Craven and production photographs in it. That is the only Scream screenplay a real publisher has ever put out.

The serious history books are recent. Ashley Cullins wrote Your Favorite Scary Movie for Plume in 2025, an oral history built on more than eighty cast and crew interviews, and Roger L. Jackson reads the audiobook. Padraic Maroney's It All Began with a Scream came out in 2021 from BearManor Media, unauthorized, built on about thirty interviews. Clark Collis' Screaming and Conjuring, 1984 Publishing, 2025, runs five hundred and four pages on the horror boom that starts with this film and has new Neve Campbell interviews in it.

On the academic side, Steven West wrote a short critical study of the first film for the Devil's Advocates series in 2019. Mike Blankenburg wrote a German study of the Craven films as meta slashers, and it has never been translated.

Brian J. Robb's Screams and Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven is the one to read for production detail. The Overlook Press edition of 2000 carries the first full published account of how the first two films were made, and Polaris updated it in 2022. John Wooley wrote the authorized Craven biography in 2011. University Press of Mississippi collected Craven's interviews in 2019, and there are two academic essay collections on him, from Edinburgh University Press in 2023 and Lexington Books the same year.

Then there is the true crime shelf. Danny Rolling is the Gainesville Ripper, and the news coverage of that case in 1990 is what Kevin Williamson had on in the background while he wrote the script. Rolling and Sondra London published The Making of a Serial Killer through Feral House in 1996, and JT Hunter's A Monster of All Time from 2020 puts the connection to the film right on the jacket.

There are quiz books, and Scream Magazine put out a thirty years of Ghost Face collector edition in 2026.

Two things do not exist, and people assume they do. There has never been an official novelization of any Scream film in any language. The novels people remember, Wrongly Accused, Hollywood Horror and Ghostface Returns, are Gale Weathers' books inside the story, not real ones. And there has never been a licensed Ghost Face comic book.

The collaborations

Supreme is the highest profile of them. Torbert worked with the label for eight months before the spring summer 2026 collection went on sale through the Supreme website on April 30, 2026. It runs to EU stamped masks in black and red with exclusive Supreme shrouds, a Cowichan knit sweater, a work shirt and mesh shorts. Torbert has said the hardest part of the whole project was getting the word SUPREME to line up correctly on the shroud, which took several attempts with the manufacturer. Supreme sells in drops, so these were one off and time limited.

GFUEL got there first among the drink makers, with a STAB Stimulant collector's box in 2024.

Ghost Face Vodka launched on January 30, 2026 after roughly ten months of development, produced through a joint venture between Fun World and outside partners, and pitched at vodka drinkers, fans and bottle collectors at the same time.

An Angry Orchard Scream thriller variety pack featuring Ghost Face was announced on July 27, 2026, a three way arrangement between Fun World, Paramount and the cider maker, timed for Halloween.

There is a Fanta Ghost Face Punch sold in twelve can fridge packs, although the official brand side material found covers a Fanta horror partnership with other studios rather than this specific tie in, so treat the flavour's confirmation as only partly verified.

Ice Nine Kills made a Twisting The Knife portrait t-shirt as a Hot Topic exclusive in black and red, tied to their song for the seventh film featuring Mckenna Grace, whose video also appears on the film's home release.

On the games side, Ghost Face joined Fortnite on October 14, 2025, after Dead by Daylight, Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat. Gemmy holds the inflatable and animatronic manufacturing relationship. And the Amazon exclusive 4K gift set for the seventh film, limited to five thousand units worldwide, shipped with exclusive art and an exclusive Handmade by Robots figure with glow in the dark effects.

Video games

Dead by Daylight added the character on June 18, 2019. The killer is not the film's Ghost Face; he is an original Behaviour Interactive creation, Danny Johnson, working under the alias Jed Olsen, a freelance journalist at the Roseville Gazette in Florida who stalked and killed people and then filed the news stories about his own murders. Only the mask is licensed from Fun World. He is voiced by Filip Ivanovic.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone ran a limited time bundle from October 19 to November 18, 2021 as part of The Haunting, with an operator, a finishing move, a cordless phone weapon charm and weapon blueprints. Roger L. Jackson voiced it.

Among Us added a free Ghost Face in January 2022, made with Innersloth and Paramount and timed to the fifth film reaching cinemas, and brought it back on March 31, 2022 as a login bonus timed to the sixth film's home release.

Mortal Kombat 1 added him as a downloadable fighter on November 19, 2024 for Kombat Pack 2 owners and November 26, 2024 for everyone else. Roger L. Jackson voiced him again.

Hunt: Showdown added the Ghost Face Rampage on October 24, 2024, the game's first licensed crossover character, redesigned for a nineteenth century western setting with a duster and a period hat, and a mask presented as carved wood rather than rubber.

Fortnite added Ghost Face on October 11, 2025 during Fortnitemares, with an item called Last Call that combines a 1990s payphone with a knife and turns the user into Ghost Face.

Scary Movie

Scary Movie, released in 2000, is the best known parody, with the killer played by Dave Sheridan as Doofy Gilmore. Sheridan returned to the part in Scary Movie 6 in 2026. Because Scary Movie was a Dimension release at the same time the Scream films were, it was an in house parody rather than an outside one.

A new wave of Scary Movie masks arrived in 2026 alongside the sixth film, on three new sculpts called Grinny, Killer and Still Stoned.

The parody masks are themselves licensed Fun World products, sold under names like Wass Up and Stoned, which is the clearest possible evidence that these were made with permission rather than as knock offs. They are cataloged in the archive at the end of this database, kept separate from the Ghost Face masks, because a Scary Movie mask is a parody of Ghost Face and not an example of it.

Cameos and references

Other parodies include Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th in 2000, in which a hockey mask melts into a Ghost Face shape, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back in 2001, where the figure is played by an orangutan.

Documented appearances and references elsewhere include Saturday Night Live in 1997, The Sopranos in 2001, Boomtown in 2002, Tripping the Rift in 2004, a Trivial Pursuit commercial in 2004, The Simpsons and Robot Chicken in 2005, and mentions across Beverly Hills, 90210, Cousin Skeeter, Dawson's Creek, Celebrity Deathmatch, FLCL, All Grown Up! and Eastbound & Down. Which of those were licensed and which were fair use parody is not something the record makes clear, so no claim is made either way here.

Start with the chin

The stamp molded inside the chin is the fastest way to date a mask, because it changes with the factory and the era rather than with the design.

FUN WORLD DIV is the earliest, from the early 1990s, and it goes with the first Fantastic Faces and early Fearsome Faces cards. HN is from the same rough period and marks an alternate factory mold used for both those lines. MK turns up around 1997 and 1998, and goes with the As Seen In Scream cards and the black and red cards; a few colored MK masks exist, orange among them, and they are rare.

T starts in 1997 and is still in use, which makes it the least helpful stamp on its own, because it appears with both the old and the new logo cards. EU, for Easter Unlimited, starts around 1998 and is the most common stamp of the last twenty five years; it appears raised, and on some masks it sits near the top left rather than in the chin.

TD is a later one and matters because of where it turns up. It goes with masks sold through Walgreens and with the Scream 4 reshoots in January and February 2011, and the mask itself has a thinner mouth that pulls downward and a distinctly cut chin. N is a recent find with very little written about it, sitting somewhere between the Fearsome and the As Seen In Scream types.

And some recent masks have no stamp at all. The Ultra White and the newer zombie and specialty masks are stampless, with a raised mark inside instead, on the newer red cards.

Then the mold

Once you know the era, the mold tells you the rest. The measurements below come from the collector guide at ghostface.co.uk and are the ones people actually use.

The first Fantastic Faces mold runs about thirty centimeters, or eleven and three quarter inches, top to chin. Its eyes were cut by hand, so they are irregular and the left eye is noticeably thinner than the right. The mouth indent measures 11.43 centimeters, or four and a half inches, and there are two small round indents. The nose is painted as a straight line at the bottom and is narrow at the peak. The jaw is often slightly out of true, which is character rather than damage. The shroud is thin stretchy black t-shirt material.

The second Fantastic Faces mold is a centimeter longer at thirty one, which is twelve and a quarter inches, and this is where the eyes start being cut by machine, so they are bigger and much more symmetrical. The mouth indent grows to thirteen centimeters, or five and an eighth inches. The nose is wider at the peak with a more obvious curve at the bottom. The quickest test between the two: measure six inches, or fifteen centimeters, down from the top. On the first mold that lands near the bottom of the nose. On the second it lands at the top of the nose.

The Fearsome Faces mold is also thirty one centimeters, or twelve and a quarter inches. Its right eye has straight diagonal borders while the left is curved. The mouth indent is thirteen centimeters, or five and an eighth inches, with a noticeable crease down the center, and the mouth reads larger and gives the face an attitude from some angles. The nose is much like the second Fantastic mold. The European version of this mold has the eyes spaced further apart and lighter features. The hooded deluxe version is item 8919 and uses a thick doubled material.

The As Seen In Scream mold is thirty centimeters, or eleven and three quarter inches, with slightly larger eyes again, and a nose whose inner molding runs further into the bottom corners with differently curved ends. Mouth indent thirteen centimeters, or five and an eighth inches. It carries an MK or an EU stamp and plain black or purple cards.

The Ghost Face mold from the black and red card era is about thirty centimeters, or eleven and three quarter inches, with a 12.5 centimeter, or just under five inch, mouth indent, slightly bigger eyes than the As Seen In Scream type, and thicker plastic than anything before it. This is the important one, because it became the base for a great many later masks.

The Deluxe mold from the Scream 4 production run is more solid and thicker again, and comes with the newer full hood. The TD or Walgreens mold has a thinner downward mouth, slightly different eye positions and a chin that cuts off more sharply.

The metallic masks are dated by measurement. The 2011 run is thirty centimeters, or eleven and three quarter inches, with a thirteen centimeter, or five and an eighth inch, mouth indent, built on the EU mold, item 8501. The 2012 run drops to twenty nine centimeters, or eleven and a half inches, and a twelve centimeter, or four and three quarter inch, mouth, with a chin back resembling the TD type. The 2013 run repeats the 2012 mold, and red was dropped that year, leaving blue, purple and green.

Shrouds and hoods

The earliest shrouds are thin stretchy t-shirt material, in black or white, with the hooded versions using a thicker doubled layer. Fearsome era shrouds are black stretchy with the same doubling on the hooded types, and the labels often sit on the outside.

From about 2010 the deluxe shrouds arrive with a much thicker full hood. The mask and cape costume, item 9219, has the mask fixed straight into a thick cloak, with a foam insert in the hood. Metallic masks use the same thin black stretchy shroud as the standard line.

Reading the card

The Fantastic Faces cards of the early 1990s are individually colored per mask, in a style that spells the name in the Fearsome font. Some carry a hooded mask picture and some carry no picture at all. A yellow star means the mask glows and no star means it does not. Red and pink cards are the usual find, and there is a rare purple.

The Fearsome Faces cards from the mid 1990s are purple and black with a greenish yellow font and a hooded mask picture on the right.

The As Seen In Scream cards from 1997 to 1999 are usually purple, sometimes pink, occasionally plain black, with a glowing green mask on the right. They are deliberately plain, and deliberately do not carry the Ghost Face name, because the trademark was still being processed.

The black and red card with the pointed lettering runs from the late 1990s to 2010, with a yellow star on the glow versions. There are French versions too.

The metallic cards of 2011 and 2012 use the same black and red format with a metallic purple mask pictured. In 2013 they change to a pink and salmon card in English and French with a small Fun World logo in the corner.

The new logo card was redesigned in mid 2010 and rolled out for Halloween 2011. It has the Ghost Face character with the blade shaped F, a custom typeface, and a darker red background. The Icon of Halloween trademark, serial number 85077294, registered as number 4035973 on October 4, 2011, which is why earlier cards carry TM and later ones carry the registered symbol.

Shop specific cards are their own small field: a purple ASDA card in the United Kingdom, orange and small red Walmart cards, custom Savers and Value Village cards for the metallics from 2013, and a purple and black card on the Walgreens and reshoot masks.

Which mask is in which film

For the first film, the licensed masks are Fantastic Faces, used once the deal closed. The KNB Effects masks, of which seven were made, appear in the Casey Becker opening and the Principal Himbry scenes, and also very briefly as the killer comes out of the bushes near Tatum's porch and as a reflection in the video store fridge doors. The art department altered the masks, so what is on screen is not quite what was in the shop.

The second film uses Fearsome Faces in both the standard and European versions. The variant collectors call RDS, after Randy's death scene, is a Fearsome mask with an MK stamp and wider set eyes, and it is scattered among the cinema extras in the opening. A very small number of RDS masks exist on earlier Fantastic Faces cards.

The third film uses As Seen In Scream masks together with black and red tag Ghost Face masks in both glow and non glow. Both types are used throughout and the difference is visible if you pause it. The reshoots included the opening.

The fourth film uses the Deluxe production masks. Zombie and Scarecrow masks were reportedly put on children in the barn scene, and you can spot them if you look. The January and February 2011 reshoots used the TD or Walgreens masks with their thinner downward mouth and distinctive chin. There is also a large foam mask in a full costume that appears in the street lamp scene, which looks like a huge RDS mask because of how far apart the eyes sit.

Telling a real one from a fake

Fun World is the only licensed maker, so the first test is simply whether Fun World appears on the inner label or the outer packaging. If it does not, it is not real.

Certain words on packaging are a giveaway. Anything sold as a Screamer, a Screamer Mask or a Screaming Mask is a copy.

A genuine mask comes with a hood or a proper shroud. If all it has is an elastic strap, it is a copy. The plastic should be soft PVC and, oddly enough, it should smell faintly of vanilla. The chin should carry one of the factory marks described above.

On price, the guide's own warning is worth repeating. A Fantastic Faces mask offered at over four hundred dollars, with no documentation tying it to a film, is somebody trying it on.

And two honest details that catch people out. The early hand cut masks are asymmetrical on purpose, so uneven eyes on a first generation mask are correct rather than a fault. And glow masks look creamy and off white while non glow masks are bright white, so shade alone can tell you which you are looking at.

Easter Unlimited v. Rozier, 2018 to 2021

Fun World sued Terry Rozier, then a guard for the Boston Celtics, over t-shirts and sweatshirts that paired a cartoon of the Scream killer's face with his nickname, Scary Terry. Barstool Sports was also named. The case was Easter Unlimited, Inc. d/b/a Fun World v. Rozier, number 2:18-cv-06637, in the Eastern District of New York, filed on November 20, 2018.

The complaint ran six counts: direct, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, plus trademark infringement, federal trademark counterfeiting and dilution. Fun World wanted a court order to stop him, and up to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each thing he had copied.

Judge Kiyo Matsumoto decided the case in Rozier's favor on every single count, without sending it to a trial. The court accepted that Easter Unlimited holds a valid copyright in the sculpted mask and that Rozier had copied it, and then held that the use was fair anyway, because the cartoon treatment was transformative, parodic and satirical, and because it did no meaningful harm to the market for Halloween masks. The trademark counts failed for want of any likelihood of confusion. Fun World lost outright.

Two footnotes worth having. The Copyright Office indexes the decision as September 17, 2021 while the opinion itself is dated September 27, 2021, so you will see both dates. And Easter Unlimited filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit on October 29, 2021, number 21-2732, with briefing scheduled into February 2022; how that appeal ended is not visible on the public record.

The lasting damage was not the loss. It was that the Alterian evidence surfaced in this case. The defense put in material from Tony Gardner stating that Alterian's designers created six original ghost masks by the end of 1990 and that the Wailer went on sale nationwide in early 1991. The opinion also records that back in 2003 a solicitor in the United Kingdom, acting against a separate copyright action by Easter Unlimited, had contacted Gardner to ask whether he had made the design first. The judge held that the priority argument was raised too late and refused to let it disturb the presumption that Fun World's copyright is valid. Practitioners reading the case concluded Fun World's copyright position had been meaningfully weakened.

Paramount, Spyglass and Alterian, 2026

Three weeks before Scream 7 opened, two mirror image lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles federal court on the same day, February 6, 2026, both before Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett.

In the first, Spyglass Media Group and Paramount Pictures sued the Alterian Ghost Factory for a declaration that they may keep using the mask. Alterian had threatened a copyright suit in January 2026 after settlement talks that started in 2024 fell apart, and the studios argued this was an attempt to extract money by timing the threat to a release date. Their main defense was delay. They argued that Alterian had sat on its claimed rights for roughly thirty years, never sued over the 1996 film or any sequel, and had known about Fun World's licensing since the 1990s. The filing made the point neatly: in a film a delay builds suspense, but in a courtroom an unreasonable delay is a reason to throw the case out.

In the second, filed the same day, Alterian sued Easter Unlimited, Paramount and Spyglass for copyright infringement and demanded a jury. Its theory was simple and, if true, devastating: that Alterian authored the underlying design, so Fun World never had the right to license the mask to anybody in the first place. Press reports put the demand around two hundred million dollars, although that figure should be treated carefully, because the way it was described does not fit the amounts the law allows for each thing copied, and more likely reflects a claim on the money the films made.

The two cases were treated as related and consolidation was set to be discussed at a status conference on April 15, 2026.

They settled. In May 2026 the parties told the court they had resolved everything and would dismiss against each other. No terms were disclosed and nobody made a substantive statement. Reporting puts the date somewhere between May 6 and May 13, 2026.

Here is the part that matters and that almost every write-up gets wrong in one direction or the other. Because it settled, no court has ever ruled on who created the design. Nobody was vindicated. Nobody was found to have copied anybody. The question is exactly as open today as it was in 1991.

What never happened

It is worth being just as clear about the cases that do not exist, because they get repeated as if they do.

There is no reported litigation between Fun World and any of the studios over the mask. The relationship with Dimension, Miramax, the Weinstein Company, Spyglass and Paramount has run since roughly 1996 without a public dispute, and when the 2026 case arrived Fun World and the studios were on the same side of it.

There is no reported case in which Fun World sued a rival manufacturer over counterfeit masks, despite that being the obvious thing to look for.

There are no mass defendant suits against online costume sellers, and nothing against Amazon, eBay or any other marketplace.

There are no oppositions or cancellation proceedings against the Ghost Face marks. They went through unopposed. The only contested trademark matter is with the examiner, over the shape of the mask, described in the file on the name above.

Fun World

Ghost Face is a registered trademark of Fun World, a division of Easter Unlimited, Inc.

ghostface.co.uk

The single biggest debt in this whole database is to ghostface.co.uk. Their mask identification guide is the reason anyone can date a Ghost Face mask at all. The chin stamps, the mold measurements, the packaging eras, which mask appears in which film, and the advice on spotting a fake all come from decades of their work, and most of the photographs of vintage masks, packaging and stamps here are theirs. If you collect these masks, go and read the original at ghostface.co.uk/mask-info.

They also supplied the Supreme collaboration pictures, the television series material, the Dead by Daylight and Fortnite artwork, the Scary Movie spoof masks, the voice changer line ups, and the auction photographs of the 1996 screen used costume.

It's Fun Tyme

The collector investigation at itsfuntyme.com is where the Ghost Maker story is actually documented rather than repeated. Their photographs of the sealed Wailer kit, the instruction sheet and the Alterian line are the ones used here, along with the pictures of all four original 1992 ghost faces, the numbered products of the 1990s and the Scream Stalker costume packaging. Their identification guide also supplied the cotton to polyester shroud dating.

The Scream wiki

The Scream wiki at scream.fandom.com is the largest single collection of information about the films, the characters and the costume anywhere, and it is the first place most people go. Anything on this page that overlaps with it was checked against it.

Everyone else

Propstore supplied the auction photographs of the screen used costumes from the first, second, fourth and sixth films, and their catalog descriptions are the best written record of how those garments were actually built.

Mad About Horror supplied the pictures of the 25th anniversary and aged Scream 6 retail costumes, and has been the route a lot of United States only Ghost Face products reached British buyers.

Scream Thrillogy carried the interview with Cynthia Bergstrom that is the only reliable account of how the 1996 robe was made, and the interview with Marianne Maddalena about finding the mask. The Art of Costume supplied the on screen picture of the robe at full length. Figure Realm supplied the McFarlane and Spencer Gifts figure photographs.

Multiverse Replicas made the voice changers we use. Scream Robes built the StabMovies.com robe.