Once you get past the too-uniform paint job, the details are tremendous. If the Hunchback really does cry like that, I hate myself for ignoring him. My only familiarity with him is through a series of fifteen-year-old Happy Meal toys.ĭespite knowing so little about the Hunchback, I believe it’s safe to assume that the stream of tears made of human bone was an editorial choice made by Dollar Tree. I should confess that I’ve never seen a movie, TV show or animated special about the Hunchback of Notre Dame. “įirst is a Hunchback of Notre Dame mask. I caught him using Hostess Scary Cakes as bait. For those unfamiliar, allow me to introduce you. I’m not publishing photos if they’re only going to insinuate that my head is two feet wide.Īlso, so far this season, Harley really hasn’t gotten his fair share of the spotlight. Most importantly, the masks, while technically not too small for my face, are small enough to make me appear like I have an enormous head. We’re going to run through the six masks Dollar Tree had available, and our model will be Harley the Crite. There will always a plus when you’re willing to sift through decades of repressed memories to find it. Masks like Dollar Tree’s would’ve worked just fine for those purposes. When we passed by the other, older kids - the ones who’d so suddenly declared that Halloween was lame, and that anyone who celebrated it was deserving of punches - they were never the wiser. To continue the illusion that we weren’t trick-or-treating, our treat sacks were actually just our schoolbags. When we went trick-or-treating, we’d only slip ’em on just before knocking on strangers’ doors.Īfter collecting our loot, we hid the masks in our trick-or-treat sacks. On Halloween or the night prior, we’d grab whichever masks were left at our local pharmacy, no matter how stupid they were. Back then, my friends and I totally relied on cheap, shitty masks like these.

It was a long time ago, but I remember being at that delicate age – the age when you’re not too old to go trick-or-treating, but somehow too old to wear cheesy costumes in public.

If all you care about is the candy, any costume will do. On the other hand, the great thing about trick-or-treating is its loose dress code. They’d be pretty terrible if put to use as non-ironic Halloween costumes, but if you judge them more as interpretive works of art, they’re a-okay. When I went to Dollar Tree last week, I also picked up a bunch of masks. Hope you’re enjoying Dino Drac’s Halloween Countdown so far.

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