![]() ![]() It's improbably scary, but the real surprise came later. ![]() The result, against all logic and reason, was and still is terrifying enough to become iconic shorthand for "scary murderer with a knife." It's the blankness, the utter lack of emotion at odds with the quick, effectively brutal physical violence Nick Castle brought to the role that first Michael Myers mask is the embodiment of the nothingness at the center of a sociopath. John Carpenter, undoubtedly the Master of Horror but even more masterful at stretching a dime into gold, left the mask in the hands of production designer Tommy Lee Wallace, who famously purchased a William Shatner mask from a random Hollywood Boulevard costume shop for $1.98, spraypainted it white, and tinkered with the eye holes and hair a bit. The mask worn by knife-wielding madman Michael Myers in 1978's Halloween is the stuff of low-budget legend.
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