Judging by the size and thickness of my old 75; Its about as thick as an 85 “THE MASK” but just a TAD smaller. I always thought when people called it “A childs mask” wasnt because it was small, but rather because its a Halloween mask and Kids go out trick or treating and it just got called a small childs mask when in fact it fits most adults… I have a pic of my old 75 next to an 85 and tbh the thickness is pretty much the same the size is fairly close to one another but he 75 is slightly smaller than the 85. The hair is not Yak Belly hair. That was something a collector said Years ago just trying to get attention. Ken never had his sample tested and the collector that said it was Yak IMO was just making it up. You cannot test animal hair that has been treated and dyed and send it to a lab and they can say it’s Yak or esp Hair from it’s Belly…
Well, you could be right but thus far I always thought the mask was really tight on Nick but he said it wasn’t, even with his huge afro, lol. I made my mask with the exact inches I got here and it’s far from small on me as well. So now I have a little theory as to why the mask looked the way it did in some of the shots like the phone scene or Michael stabbing the couch. If the mask was as thin (or flexible) as the Tony Moran scene suggests and it was roomy on Nick then that would make the mask change shape whenever Nick looked down giving it that iconic “snout” that he has in those scènes. A really tight mask wouldn’t do that. The diffrence between Nick standing up straight and looking down is pretty big, meaning the mask was pretty big on him too imo. Could be just the width like you say but still…
He’s not looking down here and the mask is severely stretched out
same here
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Seems like, for every piece of info we get, there’s a counter piece of info that disputes the first piece. Some things, I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure. It just adds to the mystique though.
I didn’t personally get any hair tested. At the time I was good friends with a guy named Dan who was involved the RPF world and Star Wars/Boba Fett replicas and research. Star Wars guys are even crazier than Myers guy. Anyway, Dan was the one who came up with the idea of testing it to find a match as was done with some Star Wars props. Dan was the one who said it tested as uncolored yak belly hair. I lost contact with Dan over the years, and would love to reconnect. I recently heard from a former DPS employee that they also used Scottish Black-faced sheep hair mostly in addition to other types. A lot of times, they used whatever they had in available types.
As far as thickness, the mask shared the same thickness as all the other DPS masks of the era. Nothing special about it.
Are we sure they only used one fiber of hair ?
When DPS studios tried to get the rights to make Myers masks and were refused by the Halloween filmmakers, does that mean the filmmakers had the rights to the Myers mask? I would think the fact that it came from a Kirk mask would mean that they wouldn’t have the rights. It just seems weird that the mask was allowed to be used in the film without getting the rights to the Kirk mask. Is this a case of changing the properties of something enough for it to be fair use?
it was pretty much changed beyond it’s original form, plus with Castle and Warlock stretching the mask the way they did, that also was a factor
The paint flaking off should just be debunked now, it was too clean. The most prominent part is the front neck, and it’s under the chin, as if the chin cast a shadow. Likely he sprayed it from a higher angle and didn’t tilt the mask upside down to get the coverage.
They touched paint flakes up in H2, sure, but that was a professional job. For H1, if they tried that there would indents; if you have ever tried this, with the exact paint TLW used, you would see instantly that it would leave some kind of noticeable indent. Once these masks are sprayed they can’t be resprayed, unless you strip it all off; perhaps they used paint thinners to help blend repair works in, but I doubt they had time for that. The paint TLW used was also very durable.
One thing that should be taken into account is how much stretchier Don Post latex was when compared to say Tots. I remember my The Mask from back in the day being MUCH more stretchy than my tots. That is determined by the type of latex used.