10 Things You Didn't Know About Michael Myers

10. He Wears A $1.98 Captain Kirk Mask

Inspired by the movie Eyes Without A Face, John Carpenter instructed production designer to design a plain mask for the killer that didn’t draw attention to itself. The script specified the “neutral features of a man” while the dialogue famously referred to a “pale, blank, emotionless face”, so Wallace did what anyone else in his shoes would – he turned to William Shatner.

Purchasing a 1975 Captain Kirk mask for $1.98, Wallace changed the hair, opened the eye sockets, yanked off the sideburns and spray painted the face white. “It was horrifying,” Wallace said. “It was so scary that we immediately knew that our movie was going to work.”

Rejected masks included a 1975 Mr Spock mask, a Don Post Emmett Kelly clown mask with frizzy red hair and a mask of disgraced former President Richard Nixon.