How to Make the Ghostface AI Trend as a Video From One Selfie
The Ghostface AI trend as a video, step by step: which selfie to use, what happens in the 8 seconds, the phone-call sound, the mask and the price.
A late-90s bedroom, pink satin bedding and a chunky corded phone. You are laughing into it while a tall figure in a black hooded robe and a white ghost mask waits in the dark doorway behind you. Then the line goes quiet. The Ghostface AI trend started as a still photo; here is how to make the version where the figure moves, from one selfie and without a prompt or an editing app.
1Upload a photo of you
JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC · under 20 MB0/1 photos
Photos that work best
- Clear, waist up
- Screenshots, stickers
- Head only
- Too dark or blurry
- 8 s video
- 9:16, like the original
- Original song available
- No watermark
2Version
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What is the Ghostface AI trend?
It is a Halloween AI trend that borrows the masked killer from Scream, the 1996 slasher film that opens with a phone call. On 25 September 2025 an Instagram user posted what Know Your Meme calls the earliest known example: an AI photo of herself on a big 90s phone in a Y2K bedroom, with the masked figure in the doorway behind her. A day later a TikToker shared a set of the photos and passed 2.7 million views in four days, most posts set to a remix of "Deceptacon" by Le Tigre. Couples, mirror selfies and the figure at the window followed within days.
In October 2026 the trend came back for a second Halloween, now also as short videos where the figure moves. The Ghostface AI template makes that video version: it keeps your face and hair and puts you in the bedroom scene.
How to make it
- Open the Ghostface AI template.
- Add one selfie: sharp, from the chest up, face to the camera.
- Pick a version and generate. Every version renders the whole 8-second clip.
- Download it with the phone-call sound, or add your own sound when you post.
- Caption ideas: "who keeps calling me", "never answering unknown numbers again" or "it's officially spooky season", with #ghostface #ghostfaceaitrend #halloween.
What happens in the video
One still shot of about 8 seconds, 9:16:
- 0–1.5 s: you lie across the pink satin bed and laugh into a purple corded phone. The figure stands still in the dark doorway behind you.
- 1.5–3 s: the line goes quiet. You lower the handset and look at it, puzzled.
- 3–4.5 s: you look over your shoulder at the door just as the figure leaves the doorway.
- 4.5–6 s: the figure walks into the lamp light, stops right behind the bed and tilts its head.
- 6–8 s: you turn back to the camera, eyes wide, holding your breath, with the mask right behind you.
No knife, no blood, no violence: it stays spooky, not gory.
Your look in the video
The video keeps your face, hair and gender from the photo and dresses you in a plain late-90s top, so it works for anyone. The masked figure is a generic tall figure in a black hooded robe and a long white ghost mask, not the official film mask.
Photos that work best
- A clear selfie. From the chest up, face to the camera, in soft daylight.
- Nothing on your face. No sunglasses, hat or strong filter. Your hair stays as it is in the photo.
- One person per photo. With two faces in the photo, the video may mix them.
- Ask first. Use your own photo, or that of an adult who agreed.
What does it cost?
Balanced is 10 credits at 480p and 20 at 720p. Premium is 20 credits at 480p, 40 at 720p and 70 at 1080p, and your account's first full 480p video costs just 20 credits. Without an account, one video starts at $7.99. No watermark, and failed renders are refunded automatically.
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