Behind the Design

Four Red Robes for a Fear Street Premiere

A hooded cult, rendered in high-gloss red latex. For the premiere of the horror film Fear Street, we built four identical floor-length latex robes — here is how they were cut, hooded, and finished by hand.

Fear Street, the horror franchise built on R. L. Stine's books, lives on one unforgettable image: a hooded figure moving through the dark. For the premiere, the brief was to translate that idea into latex — a set of matching red robes with the drama of a cult uniform and the shine only latex can give. And not one robe, but four, each identical to the last.

It starts on the cutting table

A floor-length robe is a lot of latex. Each one begins as a long run of red sheet, marked against a pattern and cut by hand — the panels for the body, the sleeves, the hood, and the yoke that carries them all across the shoulders. Cutting clean is everything: latex shows every wobble, so the line has to be true the first time.

The cut panels for one robe — multiplied by four.

Building the hood

The hood is what makes it read as a cult robe rather than a coat. It is its own shaped construction — curved panels bonded into a deep, standing hood that holds its form and frames the face. This is the slow, careful part: the seams have to disappear so the whole thing looks poured rather than pieced.

The finished hood, front and back — deep, standing, and seamless.

Four of one

The finished robe sweeps to the floor: a clean A-line body, long sleeves, a hood that stands on its own, and a front closure hidden in the seam so the surface stays unbroken. Then we did it three more times. Making four identical latex pieces is its own discipline — the same pattern, the same shine, the same hood on every one, so a row of them reads as a set.