The “Happy Death Day” Mask Was Almost A Different One
The movie features a killer with a very creepy baby mask, but director Christopher Landon revealed in an interview Entertainment Weekly that the mask was almost a completely different mask.
“When I was in early early pre-production on Happy Death Day, I was trying to figure out what would be that sort of iconic mask. I feel like all great slasher films have that very memorable mask and at the time my partner and I we were pregnant with our first child. I think I had baby on the brain. So, I went to our mask designer, Tony Gardner, and I pitched him the baby.
I pitched him actually two things, I pitched him a baby and I pitched him a pig. I thought that Tree’s character, she was a bit of a selfish pig, so I thought that could be funny. But when I received the prototype for the baby, I knew that was it. It kind of struck the perfect balance of it being creepy, weird, slightly funny, but ultimately scary. And so it seemed to fit the tone of our movie better than anything else.”
Are you glad that it is the baby mask or would you rather have seen something differently? Let us know!
