History Main / SackheadSlasher

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,f 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. Expect a NightmareFace to lurk beneath, if the mask [[TheFaceless comes off at all.]] A [[StockCostumeTraits Stock Costume]].

* Houstus Graves' deformed sons in ''ComicBook/TheGoon''. They wear burlap sacks and denim overalls, and fight with pitchforks and shovels. They also help their father with GraveRobbing to provide the [[{{Necromancer}} Zombie Priest]] to [[NightOfTheLivingMooks bolster the numbers of his gang]].

* In the ''Film/FearStreet'' trilogy, the Camp Nightwing Killer (a pretty overt homage to Jason Voorhees, below) wears one of these. He features most prominently in the second film, ''Fear Street 1978'', where he terrorizes a summer camp with an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]], although he doesn't actually get his sack-cloth mask until pretty late in the movie.

* ''Film/TrickRTreat'': Sam wears a burlap sack with buttons sewn on for eyes and a stitched on mouth as a trick-or-treater mask, making him a pint-sized and oddly adorable version of this trope. [[spoiler: He is actually a demonic embodiment of the spirit of Halloween with a [[PumpkinPerson pumpkin-like]] skull beneath the mask.]]

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': The [[ChainsawGood 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.

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. Expect a NightmareFace to lurk beneath, if the mask [[TheFaceless comes off at all.]] A [[StockCostumeTraits Stock Costume]].

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. Expect a NightmareFace to lurk beneath, if the mask [[TheFaceless comes off at all.]] A [[StockCostumeTraits Stock Costume]].

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* TheProtagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Burlap}}'' is a heroic example, as his intended targets are a gang of [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]].
* Houstus Graves' deformed sons in ''ComicBook/TheGoon''. They wear burlap sacks and denim overalls, and fight with pitchforks and shovels. They also help their father with GraveRobbing to provide the [[{{Necromancer}} Zombie Priest]] to [[NightOfTheLivingMooks bolster the numbers of his gang.]]

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* ''Film/BatmanBegins:'' Jonathan Crane, in his persona as Scarecrow, just wears a burlap sack on his head (well, a burlap sack with a high-tech gas mask and [[EvilSoundsDeep voice filter]] on the inside) along with ordinary civilian clothes (rather than his full {{Scary Scarecrow|s}} costume from the original comics).

* 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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* ''Series/TheResident:'' The HalloweenEpisode "Nightmares" involved a woman suffering from chronic bad dreams in which she is terrorized by knife-wielding men wearing burlap sacks with faces scrawled on them.

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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. Expect a NightmareFace to lurk beneath, if the mask [[TheFaceless comes off at all.]] A [[StockCostumeTraits Stock Costume]]. Compare HockeyMaskAndChainsaw.

* In the ''Film/FearStreet'' trilogy, the Camp Nightwing Killer (a pretty overt homage to Jason Voorhees, below) wears one of these. He features most prominently in the second film, ''Fear Street 1978'', where he terrorizes a summer camp with an [[AnAxeToGrind axe]].

* Houstus Graves' deformed sons in ''ComicBook/TheGoon''. They wear burlap sacks and denim overalls, and fight with pitchforks and shovels.

* In the ''Film/FearStreet'' trilogy, the Camp Nightwing Killer (who is a pretty overt homage to Jason Voorhees, below) wears one of these. He features most prominently in the second film, ''Fear Street 1978'', where he terrorizes a summer camp.

* ''Film/BatmanBegins:'' Jonathan Crane, in his persona as Scarecrow, just wears a burlap sack on his head along with ordinary civilian clothes (rather than his full {{Scary Scarecrow|s}} costume from the original comics).

* In ''Baghead'' a killer with just a '''paper''' bag over his head stalks four actors, one played by Creator/GretaGerwig.

* The Zodiac Killer famously wore an improvised executioner hood (actually a black bag with eyes cut out) during one of his murders; its unkown if he wore this any other time since [[LeaveNoWitnesses most of his other victims didn't get as lucky]]

* ''VideoGame/{{DUSK}}'': The Leathernecks, burly men in overalls with potato sacks on their heads, are the first enemy encountered in the game when a group of them try to dice you up in a basement with chainsaws.
* ''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.

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

* TheProtagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Burlap}}'' is a heroic example, as his intended targets are a gang of [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]]''.

* ''Film/TheRedWoodMassacre'': The killer wore a burlap sack on his head, with the rough shape of a face made up of stitches on the front.

* ''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 [[PumpkinPerson pumpkin-like]] skull beneath the mask.]]