Halloween Easter Egg - Halloween Mask

I actually read somewhere (on those movie slides they show while you are waiting to see a movie, I think.) that they took a Captian Kirk Halloween mask and spray painted it white.

No, no, actually, the mask is just the Kirk mask, punched inside out - that's why is it a little craggly - I heard there were problems sometimes of it going back right and falling off his face :P

I heard this egg as well. Apparently, the reason they used a Shatner mask was lack of funding. They got a few crew members to go to a mask store and get the cheapest one!!!!!!

I heard it was actually William Shatners bum and not his face. Yer Maw

I've seen and interview concerning this with Tommy Lee Wallace...they painted it white...removed the sideburns and widened the eyes...thats what it is, not inside out or anything...I think they have it on the movies web page too...HalloweenMovies.com

No wonder this guy scared the hell out of everyone...a pale faced James T. Kirk with hair walking towards them...no matter how fast they ran...there he was

The mask of Michael is a William Shatner mask. It is from the movie The Devil's Rain. Since John Carpenter was on a small budget he went into a store, bought the cheap mask, painted it white, and changed the hair.

To correct EternalSpark: if you think about it, what you say cannot be true. It was not a face-only mask but one that covered the whole head. This means that, first of all, if it was reversed then the hair would have been on the wrong side; and secondly, it may have reversed itself and fallen off it covered the face only, but it didn't - it'd be pretty hard for a head mask to fall off.

The man who played Mike Myers in the original Halloween was a screenwriting friend of John Carpenter's just helping out as a favor. His name is Nick Castle, and has directed the Damon Wayans comedy, Major Payne.