The True Story Behind The Michael Myers Mask
Halloween, the famous horror movie everybody argues has too many sequels, is responsible for one of the scariest Halloween characters, Michael Myers.
Surprisingly, there’s nothing too scary behind the creation of the mask itself. When shooting the original 1978 film, production designer Tommy Lee Wallace bought two masks from a magic shop on Hollywood Boulevard. He bought a clown mask and a William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek mask.
Actor Nick Castle had told the New York Times, “Tommy came in with the clown mask on, and we went, ‘Ooh, that’s kind of scary.’ Then he put on the Shatner mask, and we stopped dead and said, ‘It’s perfect.””
The designers then spray painted it white, cut the eye holes just a tad bigger and Michael Myers was born.
