William Shatner is Michael Myers!

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The mask
Nick Castle holds up the original Michael Myers mask, which was created from a William Shatner Halloween mask.

Tommy Lee Wallace, writer/director of Halloween III: Season of the Witch, was the production designer/co-editor on Halloween, and it was up to him to find "the perfect mask" for the Michael Myers character. The mask was intended to have a "blank face", and the William Shatner Halloween mask he found was exactly what he needed, "It didn't really look like anybody." Wallace cut the eyeholes larger and rounder, removed the eyebrows and sideburns, poofed up the hair so it looked "demented and strange" and finally spray-painted the mask white. Wallace explains, "It created a shiver right in the room, and we knew we had something special." John Carpenter claims that the mask looked nothing like William Shatner whatsoever, but joked, "I guess I owe the success of Halloween to William Shatner."<27> According to Jamie Lee Curtis, the mask needed to be a "human image", and the only thing in stores at the time that matched what they needed on set was the Shatner mask.<10> Carpenter elaborates:

"We didn't have any money to make a mask. It was originally written the way you see it, in other words, it's a pale mask with human features, almost featureless. I don't know why I wrote that down, why Debra and I decided on that, maybe it was because of an old movie called Eyes Without a Face. It's a French film, Franju made it, this girl had a burned face so she wore this face mask, it was real creepy because it was featureless and immobile except for her eyes. So Tommy Lee Wallace, our production designer, ran up to the mask shop on Hollywood Boulevard and bought a couple, one was a clown mask, and that's, you know, one way to go, and the other he got this William Shatner Star Trek mask; Captain Kirk."

links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Halloween)#Concept_and_creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdidzp_SdKk

[Lautremont]

1. We horror fans have long known this!

I'm glad this mind-blowing tidbit is finally becoming part of mainstream thought!

[Orsino]

2. This explains *everything*.

I mean everything.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. I knew this years ago and it's pretty interesting.

There is no doubt Michael's plain white mask is one of the creepiest things you'll see in a slasher film.

I find it more unsettling than Jason's hockey mask.

[RandomThoughts]

4. It actually proves he is not Micheal Myers, and actually is the only person that could not be him

Because 'The Shat' never had to wear that mask.

And anyone that did wear the mask, was not 'The Shat'

whoever Micheal Myers was, the one person he was not was 'The Shat' cause then he would not need the mask.

Which means only someone wearing a mask, pretending to be someone else, in this case 'The Shat', would be a model for mask. And with the awesomeness of 'The Shat', the opposite mask wearer would be equally un-awesome. :)

It is said most people wear a mask at one time or another. In the movie eyes wide shut, when Tom Cruise returned from the weird party, there was a mask on his pillow, because after that, he would be hiding who he was from his wife, just one example of the mask.

[underpants]

5. I knew this already but it is one of my favorite trivia things

Freakin' Shatner