H1 Michael Clown Mask Discussion

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How’s everyone doing?! A while back me and Benny were having some back and forth about Michael’s H1 clown mask, but I was getting ready for work yesterday and something that Will Sandin said caught my attention…

“When I see the movie now, I see myself kinda flinch a little bit. I mean it was a plastic mask with the, uh, the rubber bands around the ears and as he was taking it off there were times where it was just painful. That was the hardest part of the whole, uh, the whole scene- was taking the mask off without it hurting”.

I thought that was interesting since, in all the shots of the clown mask I’ve ever seen, I never saw rubber bands that would go behind the ears, just the connectors on the outer eye orbital. Then I freeze framed and saw this. Look at how loose the band is and how it’s shaped. Is it possible that what we think is connectors are actually rubber bands to go around the ears?

Or that the “connector” we see here:

Is it really a “connector”, or a rubber band to go behind an ear, being hidden in the shadow of the mask give the illusion that it is tight to the mask and not loose like a rubber band should be?

Or that when it shows up here:

My first thought that if the filmmakers only put one rubber band over his ear (proper right) and left the proper left detached in order to rip it off more comfortably?

But then, under closer observation I realized it’s more likely that Will did, in fact, have both rubber bands over the ears and those pieces we see here:

are connectors, but there are also rubber bands to go behind the ears. That would explain these two things:

The hair being pushed away from Will’s face and forming to the edge of it:

And these two paths where the rubber bands would have gone through his hair while being ripped off, giving his hair the disheveled look once it’s taken off:

I just thought I’d post it on an open thread to garner some discussion on it. So what do you guys think? Has this made you question the construction of the mask, how do you think the mask was constructed? For the longest time I thought it could be a custom job but then TLW confirmed to me that it was completely original. Excited to see where this discussion goes!! :smiley:

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Very interesting man! I can definitely see where the rubberbands might have left the imprint in his hair and it makes complete sense they would use them to keep the mask in place perfectly. Until now, I had no idea about this. Great thread

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To me it looks like there are connectors
From oribit to cheekbone in the mask. If not, as flimsy as the mask is, it would easily bend and fold. I also think it’s one rubber band around his head and not around each ear. The band is down on the underside of the occipital bone and under the ears in order to facilitate taking the mask off over the top of his head. If the band was left on the parietal bone taking the mask off over the top the band would have slipped forward throwing the back of his hair up and defeat the purpose of having it reveal
his face in a front to back fashion. Having the bands under his ears in this way the tight bands rip up over his ears as the rubber band stays in place at the bottom posterior portion of his skull.

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_Hard to say for sure, the mask has always been a bit of a mystery. I’ve always felt there were some slight modifications made chiefly for fit. It seems odd that if this is an “all original” mask that no one that I know of to this day has found another copy in existence.
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Who knows. These are first world problems. J/k I always thought it was one rubber band around whole head like most old school plastic masks had and not single bands for each ear. If it was single bands he sure did get it on fast

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A little stoned right now, sorry guys, but I just came across something, and it reminded me of this… it is pretty close in comparison, bar the colours.
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Very cool!!

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Lou Jacobs was definitely either the original mask or the inspiration for the mask they used. There’s a great old thread on here about that.


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Learned two new things about the 1963 Myers mask tonight. Awesome

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Yup, my thoughts exactly.

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My personal opinion is that the reason we can’t find one besides the original mask isn’t because it’s modded, but because it’s probably some local costume shop mask that wasn’t mass advertised or mass sold. Similar to the brute mask. It took a long while to actually find another copy or who made them aside from the one in H5. Maybe under 100 copies of the mask were unlicensed and from a small mask making shop. Given that TLW bought it and told me they did no mods to it, I’m inclined to believe that.


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Resurrecting this thread with something new I found. When I originally made this thread I skipped too fast over a screen cap that even better illustrates why I think there were two rubber bands… you can see them!

Now I really think not only that there are two bands rather than one, but that the “connectors” on the outer orbitals do connect the jaw piece, but those are also the ear bands. I attempted to make an image to illustrate what I mean:

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Picked this up a good 15 years back. It’s as close as I’ve ever came to the 63 mask. It’s very likely not it, but as close enough as i ever got.
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Since this thread has been resurrected I figured I’d share some pics from another collector. If you’re on fb you may have seen these. This is the closest to the screen used original mask I’ve seen. Maybe it’s from the same company, different color combo, or the original was altered by the crew.




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Glad to see this thread pop back up! When that copy above popped up I was absolutely thrilled that we got one step closer to these masks. TLW had told me that they did not alter the opening clown mask and they bought it just the way it was. That combined with the fact that the above version has extra designs in the forehead area leads me to believe it is likely the same company but a different mask from their lineup.