Underrated Horror Movie Masks: Babyface From ‘The Hills Run Red’ (2009)

Sorry for getting your hopes up if you read the title of the post and are expecting 80’s/90’s R&B singer Babyface somewhere in here.  This post isn’t about him, but is all about one of my favorite underrated horror movie masks from the 2009 flick, The Hills Run Red.

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Yes, that is indeed Babyface up there, an inbred creation who likes to kill people and rape girls.  A real charmer!  But I’m not here to play psychologist about all of his apparent issues – I’m here to talk about that bad ass mask!  I have a slight fear of creepy porcelain dolls, so right away I was on board with what Babyface wears to cover his ugly mug.  The mask itself is pretty creepy and if it wasn’t for Sophie Monk’s striptease scene in the movie, it would have stole the show.  It did do enough scene stealing to justify getting it’s own post though, so if you want to see Babyface in action, click on the link below!

Dammit.  Wrong Babyface!  But that was a pretty sweet jam back in the day. Here’s the sadistic rapey Babyface from The Hills Have Red having some fun with dismemberment:

Underrated Horror Movie Masks: Patrick Channing From ‘The First Power’ (1990)

Keeping with the spirit of the season, nothing quite says Halloween like a good scary mask.  So I figured I would take a look back through horror history and pick a movie mask that is criminally underrated as far as creepy horror movie masks go.  If you’re a big Lou Diamond Phillips fan, then I’m sure you own 50 copies of the 1990 serial killer flick called The First Power on VHS.  The movie itself is a guilty pleasure of mine, and it sports one of the best false faces ever to grace the horror screen.

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Creepy, right?  Well the movie is creepy too.  And in the movie, we follow the trail of Patrick Channing, a sadistic serial killer who offers his victims up to Satan as a sacrifice.  Oh, and he’s known as the Pentagram Killer because he tends to enjoy carving pentagrams into the flesh of those victims.  He’s a super fun guy to say the least, and he takes everything to the next level when he puts on that fucking mask.  I keep looking up at it in that pic by the way and have become increasingly uneasy while writing this post.

Ok – now are you ready for your ironic fun fact of the day?  That was weak.  I said…..ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR IRONIC FUN FACT OF THE DAY?!?! Much better response.  Ok – the actor who portrayed Patrick Channing is Jeff Kober.  You may remember him from last season’s The Walking Dead as the biker guy who gets a chunk of his neck taken out by Rick Grimes.  Well, the ironic fun fact is that even when Patrick Channing takes his mask off in The First Power, he’s still just as creepy!  Don’t worry, Jeff Kober – even with your unique unsettling face, you’re still one hell of an actor.

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