6 Faces of Madness  

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McFarlane's Monsters III: 6 Faces of Madness is an action figure series released by McFarlane Toys in June 2004 as part of McFarlane Monsters Series.

Features

6 Faces of Madness focuses on a historical look at some of the human race's most notorious blood-letters and miscreants. It includes:

• 1) Attila the Hun - Fifth century king of the Huns.
• 2) Billy the Kid - Nineteenth century American frontier outlaw and murderer.
• 3) Elizabeth Báthory - Sixteenth Century Countess of Hungary.
• 4) Jack the Ripper - Nineteenth Century English serial killer.
• 5) Rasputin - Twentieth Century Russian Priest.
• 6) Vlad the Impaler - Fifteenth century prince of Wallachia (now Romania).

Details

1) Attila the Hun

• Paint: original paint
• Scale: 6-inch
• Format: action figure
• Packaging: clamshell
• Infamous leader of the bloodthirsty Huns, fifth-century inhabitants in modern-day Hungary, who led devastating plundering raids into western Europe. Known as the Scourge of God, Attila led a vast and merciless mounted army, which left a swath of devastation and death across much of Europe. Attila is said to have died of a nasal hemorrhage on his wedding night.

2) Billy the Kid

• Paint: original paint
• Scale: 6-inch
• Format: action figure
• Packaging: clamshell
• One of the most noted gunfighters of the American Wild West, Billy the Kid is described as both a cold-blooded murderer and a modern-day Robin Hood. Billy was at the center of the New Mexico-based cattle wars and saw a lifetime of violence before his own demise at age 22. Some historians speculate that Billy the Kid actually lived through the attack that was thought to have killed him however, this has never been proven. He's said to have killed more than 20 men in his short life.

3) Elizabeth Báthory

• Paint: original paint
• Scale: 6-inch
• Format: action figure
• Packaging: clamshell
• The Blood Countess of Hungary, who struck terror throughout that region in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and is said to have killed more than 600 young women. A member of the ruling class, Bathory tortured servants throughout her life. Modern legend holds that she began bathing in the blood of slaughtered young girls as a perverse form of a fountain of youth.

4) Jack the Ripper

• Paint: original paint
• Scale: 6-inch
• Format: action figure
• Packaging: clamshell
• One of the world's most notorious serial killers, noted more for the mystery surrounding his identity than his body count. Brutally killed and mutilated at least five prostitutes with a straight razor on the dark, foggy, dangerous streets of 1888 London. Although it's the subject of much speculation, to this day, Jack the Ripper's true identity remains unknown.

5) Rasputin

• Paint: original paint
• Scale: 6-inch
• Format: action figure
• Packaging: clamshell
• A debauched, illiterate Siberian peasant who turned his sinful life into that of a quasi-religious faith healer and fortune-teller in 19th-century Russia. By "curing" Tsar Nicholas II's son of hemophilia, the "mad monk" became a powerful political and social force in Saint Petersburg. This led to assassination attempts in which Rasputin was poisoned, shot, beaten and eventually drowned. Rasputin ingested enough poison to kill 10 men, shot 3 times, beaten several times and did not completely drown but only partly. Recent evidence release by Russian authorities’ show that Rasputin may have died of hypothermia.

6) Vlad the Impaler

• Paint: original paint
• Scale: 6-inch
• Format: action figure
• Packaging: clamshell
• The true Prince Dracula, known as Vlad Dracula (translated as Son of the Dragon), Vlad Ţepeş and Vlad the Impaler. An important figure in 15th-century Romanian history, Vlad Dracula is known as a patriot, but he was also bloodthirsty, slaughtering around 40,000 of his subjects and around 100,000 Turks. Though Vlad the Impaler is to have thought to have impaled countless victims, this has recently been proven not to be true nor was his "blood lusting." While he did impale victims, those that were impaled were usually those of some rank and used as examples for other. Impaling people was a long and costly process, which is why Vlad reserved it only for certain people.

McFarlane also released an accessory pack for 6 Faces of Madness for Collector's Club. This accessory pack features more than a dozen items that can be used with all the figures in the Six Faces of Madness line except for Attila the Hun. Larger items include a custom base for Elizabeth Bathory, several weapons for Billy the Kid, a lamp post for Jack the Ripper, several potion bottles and tubes for Rasputin and torso on stake for Vlad the Impaler.