History Main / SackheadSlasher

* ''Film/TrickRTreat'': Sam wears a burlap sack with buttons sewn on for eyes and a stitched on mouth as a trick-or-treater mask. [[spoiler: He is actually a demonic embodiment of the spirit of Halloween with a pumpkin-like skull beneath the mask.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Before Jason Voorhees got his iconic hockey mask, he had a sack.]]

* In ''Film/TheOrphanage'', the [[UndeadChild ghost of Tomas]] wears one, which he also apparently wore in life to cover up a [[TheGrotesque deformed face]]. [[spoiler: Although undeniably very scary, he's not really evil.]]

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* The Fox and the Cat in Pinocchio.
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* The Zodiac Killer can be considered this.
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* The butcher from VideoGame/StayOutOfTheHouse .

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* LightNovel/SwordArtOnline: Atsushi Kanamoto AKA Johnny Black is a MasterPoisoner Torture Technician whose avatar within TheMostDangerousVideoGame covers his NightmareFace with a burlap sack mask.

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* ''Film/TrickRTreat'': Sam wears a burlap sack with buttons sewn on for eyes and a stitched on mouth as a trick-or-treater mask. [[spoiler: He is actually a demonic embodiment of the spirit of Halloween with a pumpkin like skull beneath the mask.]]

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* ''Film/TrickRTreat'': Sam wears a burlap sack with buttons sewn on for eyes and a stitched on mouth as a trick-or-treater mask. [[spoiler: He is actually a demonic embodiment of the spirit of halloween with a pumpkin like skull beneath the mask.]]

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* ''Film/TheBagman'': An {{Expy}} of the ''Part 2'' version of Jason Voorhees stars in this DirectToVideo SlasherMovie, murdering a group who bullied and murdered a disfigured kid while wearing a burlap mask on [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday Friday the 13th]].

* ''Film/TheBagman'': An {{Expy}} of the ''Part 2'' version of Jason Vorhees stars in this DirectToVideo SlasherMovie, murdering a group who bullied and murdered a disfigured kid while wearing a burlap mask on [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday Friday the 13th]].

* ''VideoGame/Splatterhouse'' has Biggy Man, a giant bloody ogre with a burlap sack covering his face and chainsaws grafted to his arm stumps.

MalevolentMaskedMen meets OverallsAndGingham. You're all set for HillbillyHorrors, the CannibalLarder is stocked and the CreepyGasStationAttendant gave those kids some great directions. But how is your bad guy dressed? Put a sack on his head. Not a wimpy [[BrownBagMask paper bag]] but a rugged, intimidating burlap bundle that happened to be lying around the barnyard. Like other masks, it dehumanizes the wearer often reducing them to an imposing silhouette with only eyeholes for expression. It also invokes the same eerie UncannyValley effect of the ScaryScarecrow, who are often constructed with a burlap head covered in ScaryStitches. A [[StockCostumeTraits Stock Costume]]. Compare HockeyMaskAndChainsaw.

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* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': The Chainsaw Men are sack wearing villagers who featured heavily in the marketing for the game. Infected with a malevolent parasite and controlled by the local cult, they are much more durable than the common Ganado enemy. They charge and slash at Leon, [[OffWithHisHead decapitating]] him if the player fails to PressXToNotDie.

* Invoked in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' by the Butchers, a pair of massive and tough enemies in the Undead Burg Depths who ambush you with their giant cleavers and wear sacks on their heads (you can loot such a sack from their bodies and wear it yourself, although it offers next to no protection). Further down in Blighttown, there is also an NPC invader named Man-eater Mildred, who likewise wears a sack on her head and wields a Butcher cleaver. All three of them are said to be cannibals, and the first Butcher is introduced hacking away at what is very likely human meat.

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* The mysterious killer in ''Film/{{Triangle}}'' wears a sack as a mask leading to a DramaticUnmask. An obvious ShoutOut to ''Friday The 13th Part 2''.