![]() However, that does not mean that he can’t speak. He doesn’t utter one single word in the entire series (not counting the Rob Zombie Remakes). One Michael Myers most prominent psychical attributes is his heavy masked breaths we hear as his stalks his pray. Yes, William Shatner is literally the face of evil. They first toyed with a Don Post Emmett Kelly smiling clown mask that they put frizzy red hair on, but ultimately decided that a more emotionless face would be creepier. However, the Captain Kirk mask was not the first mask Wallace and Carpenter tested. The final touch was to widen the eye holes, giving us the iconic Myers look. He replaced the hair and ripped out then sideburns, then spray painted the entire thing white. It was William Shatner effigy in which Wallace choose to use. Wallace visited a costume store a purchased a handful of masks, including a $1.98 1975 Captain Kirk mask. The only instruction production designer Tommy Lee Wallace had was to find one that had neutral features, referring to the screen plays dialogue “I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes ”. The original script did not describe what Michaels mask looked like. Source: IMDB Michaels Mask Only Cost $1.98 It was not until the second film, in which we establish that the killer is indeed Michael Myers. In one new scene, Loomis confronts a young Michael in the psychiatric ward after brutally killing his sister, and it’s only this scene in which the doctor calls him by his name. For an extended TV version of the film, John Carpenter shot additional scenes, whilst filming Halloween 2. ![]() The only time we hear anyone utters the name Michael, is in the opening moments, first by his sister and then his father. You’ll notice that psychiatrist Dr Loomis likes to play the noun game, calling the killer “it” and “him”. In fact, not one single person calls him by his full name in the original film, leaving the killers identity a mystery. Michael Myers is simple referred to as “The Shape” in the Halloween script. Source Halloween The Shape – A Man with No Name With his psychiatrist hot on his heels, Michael returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night 1979, to his old family home. Myers broke out of the asylum, after 15 years of captivity, to hunts down and kill the rest of his family. As a six-year-old child, Michael was admitted into a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his older sister, Judith Myers. Michael Audrey Myers is the central character and the main antagonist of the Halloween franchise. So, without any further delay, here are 12 awesome facts about Michael Myers. Halloween has always been one of my favourite film series, and it’s great to explore some cool facts about the man in the mask, especially considering that we are about to see Myers back on the big screen next year. ![]() Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts! Yes Horror Fans, the witching hour approaches, and in celebration of another fine Halloween experience, we are looking at the ultimate Halloween “Boogieman”, Michael Myers.
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