October’s Jewel of the Month are the Halloween-appropriate hockey mask and chainsaw stud earrings, available in silver …
Sterling silver. $70 for the pair. Click to purchase.
… and gold-plated silver.
Gold-plated sterling silver. $100 for the pair. Click to purchase.
Because I’m all about the single-earring look, you can also buy just a chainsaw (or two) stud or just a mask. I’ve also got the mask available as a ring.
Size 7 available for immediate delivery. $90. Click to purchase.
Although the chainsaw and hockey mask combo has become associated with horror-movie serial killers, the accessories really belong to two different slasher movies, as the TV Tropes website points out. Jason Voorhees — the villain of Friday the 13th — started wearing a hockey mask in the third installment of that franchise, but his weapon of choice is a machete, not a chainsaw.
Who is that masked man with a machete? Why … it’s Jason Voorhees, of course!
Family Guy portrayed that correctly.
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The chainsaw belongs to Leatherface of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series. Leatherface wears masks of human skin. Maybe it was the fact that both characters are masked that caused pop culture to conflate the two boogeymen. Or maybe it’s just scarier or funnier — depending on the context — to meld Jason and Leatherface. Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, would probably answer “funnier”: In the 1993 “Cape Feare” episode, Homer terrorizes Bart with the mask and chainsaw combination.
“Hey Bart, do you wanna see my new chainsaw and hockey mask?”
In 2000/2001, when Eminem was Public Enemy No. 1, he dressed the part for performances by wearing a hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw. He completed the look with denim overalls. That could be a reference to the one-piece but long-sleeved boilersuit worn by yet another slasher-movie villain, Michael Myers of the Halloween series. Chucky, the serial-killer doll, also wore overalls.
A hockey-mask emoji has been on my to-do list since last year. I was probably inspired by this article, seeing as I bookmarked it. But I have a very long to-do list when it comes to jewelry designs, so I had the mask on the back burner until I saw Eminem at Wembley in July, wearing a t-shirt with a Union Jack hockey mask.
Em on the big screen at Wembley.
I was like, “Oh yeah! I need to do that for Halloween.” And, of course, a hockey mask deserves a chainsaw. If you’re a stickler for Jason-related accuracy, sorry! I don’t have a machete earring. But if chainsaws aren’t your weapon of choice, allow me to recommend the ax …
Available as a pair only. Sterling silver. $70. Click to purchase.
… or the very popular meat cleaver as alternatives.
Sterling silver. $35 for a single. Click to purchase.
Plenty of scary movies feature ax murderers, while Meatcleaver Massacre came out in 1977. So I’ve got you covered!
By the way, have you seen the new Geico commercial that says, “If you’re in a horror movie you make poor decisions. It’s what you do.” The kids hide behind a collection of chainsaws while the masked slasher rolls his eyes.
How annoying! Where’s the thrill of the chase?!
Fun pieces! They’re great. I was thinking when I first started reading this, “makes me think of that commercial I keep seeing now where they hide behind the chainsaws…” and then I got to the bottom of your post 🙂
That ad was so well-timed.
Fricken awesome, dear Wendy!! I often marvel at the incredible stupidity of some commercials – and the PR people who say “okay, we’ll go with that” – but this proves there’s some goodies out there, too!! P.S. Incredible stupidity is acceptable in victims of horror movies, though…for obvious reasons!! ;D
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Geico often comes up with some LOL-worthy ads!
I’d wear the goalie mask with the upside-down ax (as hockey stick) in honor of Grant Fuhr, the goalie for the fabled Edmonton Oilers team when Messier and Gretzky played. 🙂
That would work!
Any chance of a ghostface piece? I just watched Scream again, on a the big screen no less, and after all these years I still love it.
I’d be willing to do that. Email me!