Men Behind the Mask

MAN BEHIND THE MASK

We only see us in our favorite horror movie.. wearing mask and even full of artificial make up scaring us to death.. Well then, this is the first time you will see their real them..

FREDDY KRUEGER ACTOR: Robert Englund MOVIE: Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Robert Englund has become a pop culture icon, thanks to his turn as everyone's favorite disfigured dream stalker. Yet even before he put on all that latex and that deadly glove, Englund impacted, if indirectly, another pop culture phenomenon. When he failed to land the role of Luke Skywalker in an audition, he told his friend to try out. His friend was Mark Hamill.

PREDATOR ACTOR: Kevin Peter Hall MOVIE: Predator (1987)

Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally slated to play the jungle-dwelling alien hunter, but the "Muscles from Brussels" stands at a mere 5'9" -- a less than intimidating height against the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse "The Body" Ventura. The filmmakers hired Hall instead, who stood 7' 4" -- a good fourteen inches above the Governator.



JASON VOORHEES
ACTOR: Derek Mears
MOVIE: Friday the 13th (2009)

The costume for Jason Voorhees might seem to be a relatively simple affair -- a machete, a hockey mask, and some fake blood should pretty much cover it. Yet Derek Mears, who plays the slasher in the most recent installment of the franchise, spent three and a half hours in the makeup chair to get himself into full Jason mode.



MICHAEL MYERS
ACTOR: Tyler Mane
MOVIE: Halloween (2007)

Mane plays a psycho-killer in both of Rob Zombie's "Halloween" movies, but his first line of work was only slightly less brutal: wrestling. Going under the name of "Nitro," the 6'8" Mane won the UWF MGM Grand Championship in 1994. When he learned that he landed the part of Myers, he reportedly watched every movie in the "Halloween" franchise consecutively.


LEPRECHAUN
ACTOR: Warwick Davis
MOVIE: Leprechaun (1993)

Warwick Davis was a mere eleven years old when he was picked by George Lucas to play Wicket the Ewok in "Return of the Jedi." Since then, he's been in many sci-fi/fantasy movies from "Willow" to "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to this movie where he plays a murderous imp with a pot of gold.