Halloween masks of politicians have an interesting trend. At least in election years. It turns out that masks of candidates running for President have a way of telling us who will win the Presidential election.
While no official index existed prior to the 1980’s, some manufacturers have claimed accuracy as far back as 1980. One has noted accuracy since they started compiling the numbers after the 1996 election that re-elected Bill Clinton.
While it’s not an election year, there’s still a wealth of these products left over from previous election cycles. As well as some fun (?) modern ideas.
Candidate of the Damned
Hillary Clinton didn’t win the election (thanks Electoral College), but that doesn’t mean her supporters can’t bring her politics back from the dead this Halloween.
You won’t need to find a “sexy” version of this political costume (please, don’t…seriously). Everyone will already know you’re a nasty woman with this nightmare-inducing mask that will allow you to influence aircraft through mind control.
Edit: I’m sorry, I was just told by my editor the eyes don’t come covered in the mask. Instead, your own eyes appear through the mask.
Edit again: Sweet Mother of Mystery, I didn’t intend for this level of inception with this joke.
Funko! Pop Fascist Dictator
We get it; villains are a huge market. So much so that there’s growing concern with the upcoming release of the Joker movie of copycat domestic terrorists, as well as normalizing and championing of the villain’s philosophies.
You know what popular villain doesn’t seem to trigger the public quite like the Joker? Why, Kim Jong-Un, of course! So it makes complete sense that we’d want to sell masks of such a popular political figure.
Why wouldn’t we want to dress up and parade around as the embodiment of the gore genre? With the popularity of Funko Pop! figures and the marketing potential, you can at least have a good laugh at the head size.
Land of Confusion Puppet
What’s the GENESIS of this mask you ask? Nothing having to do with clever pranks. Oh Superman, where are you now? When everything’s gone wrong somehow?
He’s probably looking for a place where there’s more plentiful love to be gone ’round.
All jokes aside, this looks like an alien attempting to look like the President. Only with real skin tone and hair color. It’s a goddamn extra puppet from the Genesis video is what I’m saying.
Bill “Run for the Hills” Clinton
I have to give it up for the originality of this mask. It was a hard decision, between this, Reaganstein, zombie Bill Clinton, Barackula Obama, and even a GW of the Apes. The concept and attention to detail are outstanding.
Now imagine this chasing you through a run down farm.
Oops! That’s with Trump. But…I mean…it’s not wrong.
The Purge Abe Lincoln Mask
That is the legitimate title of this mask. It’s a mask of a political figure that is associated with lawlessness and, through proxy, murder.
But let’s be real. We’re headed in that direction anyway.
What…What in the Hell Even is This?
Halloween Express labels this as the “Carter 3/4” mask. This is just nightmare fodder. And I can’t suffer alone in this.
Sweet dreams.
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