Scream: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ghostface

6. The Ghostface Mask Was Discovered By Accident

Some fans may already know the story of the origin of the Ghostface mask, as Wes Craven related it originally. In his original version, he was customs shopping and stumbled upon the mask in a store purely by chance, however Craven himself has since corrected himself and went on the record to say that he actually misremembered the story.

It was actually Scream producer Marianne Maddalena who found it while location scouting in a house in California for the film. She came across a similar mask - called The Peanut-Eyed Ghost - and told Craven of her discovery.

According to Kevin Williamson’s script, up until this point, no specific mask had been decided upon yet. With Maddalena's inspiration in mind, the prop department at Dimension Films then got to work to make a mask similar but not identical to the one she'd found. A costume company called Fun World owned the rights and while their mask wasn't used, there is also a nod to it in the film as Dewey Riley says of the mask: “They sell this costume in every five and dime in the state. There is no way we can track the purchase.”