10 Things You Didn't Know About Ghostface
6. Influences On The Design
Looking at the final design of the mask, it bears obvious resemblance to Edvard Munch’s painting ‘The Scream’, from 1893. Inspiration was also grabbed from the cover of Pink Floyd’s The Wall film – which was designed by British Cartoonist Gerald Scafe.
Both ‘The Scream’ and ‘The Wall’ feature key ideas of fear, agony, brutality and lust. This ties in perfectly with the themes of the film, as many remarks are made on the corruption running rampant within young people during the time Scream was set.
Munch in particular took inspiration from both his mother’s illness, as well as an entry from his journal in January 1892 detailing a blood red sky that seemed to say nature was screaming. Gerald Scafe created the idea of the huge screaming face on the cover of the Bob Geldoff-starring ‘The Wall film’ by twisting people into a caricature of their emotions, highlighting the most evil parts of their nature.
Pretty accurate for the movie, if you ask me.