- A Classic Horror Story: The group find that they're being harassed in the house by a large group of people wearing masks made from bark and antlers. They appear to be intent on sacrificing them to the three deities that they worship. They're actually actors working for Fabrizio, helping him make his Snuff Film.
- The Anderson Tapes, as seen on the poster.
◊ - Axe Murdering with Hackley: Hackley, obviously, being an Expy of Jason Vorhees. The same goes for most of the rest of Hackley's coworkers at RKS (barring Asparagus).
- Batman:
- In Batman Begins, the Scarecrow wears a burlap sack sewn into the form of a deranged scarecrow. He uses a gas that induces waking nightmares.
- The Joker and his henchmen in the opening of The Dark Knight don clown masks to rob the bank.
- In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane's face was mutilated when he was in the Pit, and he suffers constant pain as a result. His mask not only looks very intimidating, it contains an apparatus that supplies him with an anesthetic gas to numb the pain. When Batman breaks one of the tubes open in their climactic fight, Bane screams and frantically tries to put it back together.
- The Batman (2022) has the Riddler dress in this manner as well as his followers at the films climax.
- In the film adaptation of Stephen King's Battleground, The Nameless hitman wears a flesh-coloured latex face mask when carrying out his hits. This has the benefit of making him look normal at a distance while still hiding his features.
- Berkshire County: Kylie and the kids are being stalked by three people in pig masks.
- In The Black Hole, the formerly human crew members of the Cygnus wear smooth, featureless metal full face masks.
- In Black Rat, six high school students receive mysterious messages asking them to meet in a classroom at midnight, after which they are targeted by a silent figure wearing a schoolgirl uniform and a rat mask.
- The Book of Revelation: Women, in their case, but the trio who kidnapped and raped Daniel had on black masks that displayed only their eyes along with a part that could open and show the women's mouths too underneath hoods.
- Curse of the Crimson Altar: In one of his dreams, Robert finds himself being tried by a Joker Jury of cultists wearing creepy animal masks.
- In Dagon there is a cult wearing human skin masks.
- Makkabeus and his cultists in Damnatus.
- Don't Look: The killer in the movie is a man wearing white doll face mask that appears to have been coloured with marker. In fact, he's had that mask since he murdered his and Nicole's parents as a kid.
- Dragnet: The Evil High Priest wears a goat mask to hide the fact that he's actually the Reverend Whirley.
- In Even Lambs Have Teeth, the Pastor visits the sex slave ring and rapes the girls while wearing a really creepy pig mask.
- The killer in Evidence hides their identity behind a welding mask.
- Eyes Wide Shut: Everyone at the creepy orgy wears a fancy mask, many based on the commedia dell'arte.
- In Fantasy Island (2020), J.D. and Brax have their hedonistic fantasy interrupted when they are taken hostage by a gang of heavily armed men wearing creepy rubber masks. J.D. is only able to describe them to the soldiers in terms of the masks they are wearing (devil, clown, pig, etc.).
- In The Final, the outcasts become this when they swap their party costumes for their torture outfits, which have scary masks. The effect is enhanced because, initially, Dane is the only one to speak, while the others stand by in eerie silence.
- Satoris' wrestler Mooks in The Final Sacrifice.
- General Klytus, commander of Ming the Merciless's secret police force in the Flash Gordon movie, wore a golden mask◊.
- The Friday the 13th franchise has Jason and his iconic hockey mask, which he starts wearing in the third film. In the second, he wears a burlap sack.
- Future World (2018):
- The Warlord and his gang are introduced wearing fearsome masks while riding on their motorcycles.
- Later, the Drug Lord's goons are Gas Mask Mooks since they work with dangerous substances.
- Michael Myers in the Halloween series, with his modified William Shatner mask. The third film has a twist on this. There's a line of Halloween masks resembling a witch, skull, and Jack O lantern, but the source of malevolence is the masks themselves and their manufacturer.
- The killer in He's Out There wears a full-face fitted leather mask that looks like it's sewn to his head.
- Hold the Dark: Both Medora and Vernon Slone wear wolf masks when they do creepy or violent things.
- Holidays: The cult in St. Patrick's Day all wear creepy animal head masks.
- The gang of bank robbers in Hooded Angels wear elaborate hoods that conceal their entire heads, to the point where the only thing witnesses can describe about the robbers is the hoods.
- It's a Wonderful Knife (2023): The Angel Killer is dressed in a white angel costume and has on a blank mask which covers his face.
- In John Doe: Vigilante, John Doe wears an expressionless flesh coloured mask as part of his disguise. His followers, the S4D movement, wear similar masks, but theirs are white.
- In Kick-Ass, the men who are in the live internet broadcast of the torture video of Kick-Ass and Big Daddy are masked with balaclavas, with the exception of one man who wears a red supervillain mask. Katie Deauxma, originally excited to see a video of Kick-Ass's retirement, stops smiling as soon as a balaclava-clad man appears and introduces a kidnapped Kick-Ass to the viewers. In a draft script the "Baby Goon" brings supervillain masks, but the "Sporty Goon" rejects them and asks for balaclavas instead; however "Baby" gets to keep his supervillain mask.
- The bank robbers in Killing Zoe all wear creepy, Venetian-style masks.
- The elves in Krampus are a gang of demonic creatures with terrifying masks covering their faces.
- The evil ChromeSkull from the Laid to Rest movies is so named because of his signature mirrored skull mask.
- Lord Humungus from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior wears a white hockey mask that he never removes, which contrasts with his Exposed to the Elements body. Immortan Joe from Mad Max: Fury Road wears a skeletal half-mask with respirator hoses bolted to it. The mooks of both warlords also often wear masks, both to add to their air of menace and to shield their faces from dirt, 'guzzoline' fumes, and desert sand.
- Downplayed in Magnum Force where the police death squad wear their own motorcycle helmets and sunglasses during their kills. While it's used to obscure their identities until Dirty Harry discovers who they are, it also gives them a sinister mien.
- The villains of Masked Avengers wear monster masks.
- The two fencing masked art thieves, and later Rose in Masquerade (2021).
- In Maximum Overdrive, autonomous semis are the biggest threat to the Muggles, but the one sporting a grinning Green Goblin mask is especially chilling.
- My Little Sister: Igor, the titular Little Sister, wears a mask that seems to be made out of stitched together slabs of flesh.
- In The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen, Tex Ritter battles a band of malevolent outlaws who wear hoods that give them more than a passing resemblance to The Klan.
- In Nightbreed (1990), the serial killer Dr. Decker wears a bondage/scarecrow mask.
- In the Troubled Backstory Flashback of No Time to Die, Lyutsifer Safin wears a white Noh theatre-like mask to conceal his facial deformities (or for psychological effect on his targets) when he turns up to kill Mr. White's family. It gets damaged when young Madeleine shoots at him in self-defence. He actually goes maskless for the rest of the film, though he brings Madeleine a box containing the damaged mask when visiting her again and it appears for a split-second on some video screens in his base as he talks to Bond.
- One Night in October: Each story in the movie features these.
- Michelle is assaulted and tied up in her house by a woman wearing a silver Mardi Gras-like Domino Mask.
- Marcos, Kate, Britnee, and Charlie are attacked by a man wearing a scarecrow mask.
- Emma's stalker wears a silver skull mask.
- Pet Sematary (2019): It is debatable if they are actually malevolent, but the kids in the animal masks who stage the funeral procession are creepy as hell. And, according to Louis' newspaper search, this is a ritual that has been going on for a very long time.
- Playing With Dolls: The killer in the movie wears some kind of mask that covers his whole head, and is very worn, with barbed wire wrapped in rings around it.
- The three silent hunters Hunting the Most Dangerous Game in Preservation all wear featureless masks.
- Subverted in The Princess Bride.[as the Man in Black is climbing up the cliff toward them]
Fezzik: [to Inigo] You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted. - Masks are ubiquitous in The Purge Universe. Most purgers wear garish carnival-style masks and costumes of some kind or another, partially for the intimidation factor, but probably also to conceal their identities and prevent illegal retaliation during the rest of the year. The various government-backed death squads and mercenaries that appear in most installments, being Faceless Goons, also wear masks and helmets that are usually less outrageous-looking, but no less frightening.
- David Lynch's Rabbits (also included in INLAND EMPIRE) are people wearing rabbit costumes. Impressively, they never look Narmful, even when finally seen up close.
- Pavi's faces from Repo! The Genetic Opera are a little of this and a little of Uncanny Valley Makeup. They're skinned off women he particularly likes and held onto his face with metal clips, and underneath, he's horribly scarred, but they have an uncanny factor about them all on their own.
- The Retreat (2021): Renee and Val's attackers are at first only seen as masked men in ferocious-looking masks who have guns, wearing camo fatigues.
- The Wheelers in Return to Oz wear horrifying masks that double as helmets, and are Mombi's henchmen, trying to capture Dorothy in the film. That said, the novelization states they were enslaved by Mombi under threat of being turned to stone like the other denizens of Oz...not that they're any less terrifying because of it, though.
- Saw:
- Jigsaw and his apprentices (alongside some other accomplices) wear sinister-looking pig masks when abducting victims for their "games". Saw IV reveals that the first pair of pig masks used by John were cheery-looking ones from a Chinese New Year parade to symbolize rebirth, as in "the Year of the Pig." While he wore one of them, the other one was an improvised tool to abduct Cecil.
- The Spiral Killer from Spiral, a Jigsaw copycat, recycles the pig mask from the Jigsaw killers.
- The Snuff Movie makers the Masked Freaks in Scare Campaign. It's all there in the name really.
- The Scream series gives us the Ghostface killer, who can occasionally be a Malevolent Masked Woman.
- The killers in Scream Park sport a scarecrow mask and a Plague Doctor mask.
- Shows up in plenty of Shaw Brothers period pieces. Notably the Masked Gang from Masked Avengers, the Venom Clan Masters from Five Deadly Venoms, the murderous Serial Killer wearing a skull mask in Human Lanterns, and the hooded assassins from Buddha's Palm.
- In Shredder Orpheus the Furies all wear different face-concealing helmets to emphasize their pitiless role as Orpheus's executioners.
- Hannibal Lecter first sported his iconic restraining muzzle in The Silence of the Lambs despite only appearing for a single scene in an already brief performance. It was bought back for both the sequel and prequel.
- Spider-Man:
- Cited by J. Jonah Jamison as his rationalization for mistrusting Spider-Man in the first Sam Raimi-directed movie. "Why's he wear a mask? What's he got to hide?"
- The Green Goblin sports a mask of a monster that's frozen in a kind of gleeful scowl, unlike his comic book counterpart, which gives him something of a slasher movie villain vibe.
- Star Wars has Darth Vader, Boba Fett, General Grievous, the Stormtroopers, and Kylo Ren. The Jawas aren't that evil, but they probably count.
- Also; The Guavian Death Gang (other than their leader, Bala-Tik).
- The Strangers are a group of people who terrorize a pair of suburban homeowners while hiding their faces behind a white doll mask, a pin-up girl mask, and a white sack.
- The killers in Surveillance wear creepy masks that look like melting flesh.
- The attendants of the masked ball from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, where the "Poor Thing" scene takes place, wear animal masks. It's exactly as nightmarish as it sounds.
- The Foot Clan in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). They've switched out their fabric masks for silver face masks with sunglasses.
- Leatherface of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, who wears a variety of masks made of human skin to hide his deformed face.
- They/Them (2022): The killer wears a creepy skull-like mask while killing people.
- Naturally, this is all over Trick 'r Treat, with Sam (in a scarecrow mask), the Undead Children (dressed as Halloween staples), and the masked vampire (in a Venetian mask) who turns out to be a Serial Killer using fake fangs.
- In Who Am I (2014), the hacker group CLAY wears clown masks for their activities. Also everybody in the Darknet environment is wearing a creepy mask of some sort.
- In The Wiz, Evillene's peddler henchman that spies on Dorothy and her friends during their journey to the Emerald City puts on a creepy expressionless mask made of wool when he finally decides to ambush them once they arrive at a Sinister Subway.
