Fourteen claims, eight speakers.
Rows are claims. Columns are the people, and the court, who have spoken about them. A cell shows whether that speaker supports the claim, contradicts it, half-supports it, or has said nothing. The two disputes are the rows with both ✓ and ✗.
✓ says so✗ contradicts~ partly— silent
| Claim | Wallace production designer | Carpenter director | Hill producer | Shatner the face | Malone sculptor | Don Post mask company | The court 2000 opinion | Fan research collectors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓says so | ✓says so | ~partly | ✓says so | ✓says so | ✓says so | ✓says so | ✓says so | |
| —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | |
| —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | ~partly | ✓says so | ✓says so | ✓says so | |
| —silent | —silent | —silent | ✗contradicts | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | |
The life cast was taken during Star Trek (1960s).Disputed 7 | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | —silent | —silent | —silent | ~partly |
| ✓says so | ✓says so | —silent | ~partly | —silent | ✗contradicts | ✗contradicts | ✓says so | |
| ✓says so | ✓says so | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✗contradicts | ✗contradicts | ✓says so | |
| ~partly | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | |
| ✗contradicts | ✗contradicts | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | ✓says so | ✗contradicts | |
| ✗contradicts | ✗contradicts | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✗contradicts | |
| —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | |
| —silent | —silent | ✓says so | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ~partly | |
| —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✗contradicts | ✓says so | ✓says so | |
| —silent | —silent | —silent | ✓says so | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | |
| ✗contradicts | ✗contradicts | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | —silent | ✗contradicts |
Notes
What each mark rests on
The Michael Myers mask is a modified Don Post Studios Captain Kirk mask.
- Hill: Confirmed the design intent and, per Warlock, the mask's reuse; did not describe the purchase herself in the sources found.
Bill Malone sculpted the Kirk mask (and the Spock mask).
- Malone: "I sculpted the original Michael Myers which was really just a Bill Shatner 'Star Trek' mask." (JoBlo, 2009)
- The court: The opinion names no sculptor for the Kirk mask.
The Kirk mask was built on a life cast (a foam master) of Shatner's head owned by Don Post Studios.
- Shatner: "I recognized it as the death mask that they had made for me." (2021)
- Malone: Calls it "a Bill Shatner 'Star Trek' mask"; no statement on the cast itself was found.
- The court: "a foam master owned by Don Post Studios of Shatner's head"
The life cast was taken during The Devil's Rain (1974).
- Shatner: Disputed it in 2018; conceded in 2019 that the cast "may have been from that movie."
- Fan research: The most-repeated version; sourced to a biography and forum research, not to Don Post or Malone.
The life cast was taken during Star Trek (1960s).
- Shatner: "They made a mask of my face on Star Trek so that I wouldn't have to be available for the prosthetics." (2021)
Wallace bought two masks (an Emmett Kelly clown and the Kirk) at a shop on Hollywood Boulevard.
- Shatner: "The guy ran into this Halloween store and grabbed this mask" — his retelling, not a witness account.
- Don Post: Its account, as recorded by the court, has the filmmakers asking Don Post Studios to modify a Kirk mask.
- The court: The Facts section records Don Post's version, not a store purchase.
Wallace modified the mask himself: eye holes, sideburns, hair, white paint.
- Wallace: Said the original film mask was his work, using the Kirk mask as the base (2008).
- Carpenter: "So we spray-painted it, altered the eye holes and just did a couple things with the hair." (2015)
- Don Post: Claims the studio did the modification for $150.
- The court: Recorded Don Post's version as fact; Wallace and Carpenter did not testify.
The eyebrows were also removed.
- Wallace: His 2008 and 2016 accounts mention only the sideburns; the 2003 documentary is the source for the eyebrows.
Don Post Studios modified the mask for the filmmakers and was paid $150.
- Wallace: Explicitly denies it (2008).
- Carpenter: His account has the art director buying the mask and the crew altering it.
- Don Post: Don Post Jr. has also told a different version publicly: refurbish existing Kirk masks, profit under $100.
- The court: Facts §II: "was paid $150.00 for its work on the mask."
- Fan research: "The Don Post theory," mostly rejected.
The Kirk mask was turned inside out.
- Wallace: Every account he has given describes paint, eye holes, sideburns and hair, mask right-side out.
- Fan research: Collectors reproduce the look by painting Kirk masks, not inverting them.
Three masks were used: a hero mask and two stunt masks.
- Fan research: Frame-by-frame analysis; not a filmmaker statement.
The same hero mask was reused in Halloween II (1981).
- Hill: Confirmed Warlock wore the same mask Castle used.
- Fan research: Agree the hero mask returned; also identify a stunt mask in the sequel.
Don Post's "The Mask" (1986) was a Neil Surges sculpt from the Shatner foam master, sold unlicensed.
- Don Post: Told the Copyright Office in 1997 it was an original creation.
- The court: "DPTM is a copy of the mask worn by the character Michael Myers in Halloween."
Shatner wore a Michael Myers mask trick-or-treating with his kids.
- Shatner: "When my kids were younger… I'd wear the mask." (EW, 2018)
The mask was chosen because it was Shatner, or as a Star Trek joke.
- Wallace: "It didn't look especially like William Shatner. It was really just a blank face!"
- Carpenter: "It looked nothing like William Shatner, nothing like anybody, really."