Ever since I was a kid, I was obsessed with this particular photo of the mask from H8:
I just loved the style of it and since H8 was the first Halloween film I saw when I was a kid (don’t judge me lol) it always had a particular spot in my heart as far as production masks go.
That being said, when the mask came up in the propstore auction I was absolutely thrilled. These are really the first nice high quality photos we have of the mask, so I decided to try and screen match it. The mask has “Stunt II” located on the inside, but the mask didn’t match to any of the 3 different masks that can be ID’d in H8.
It seemingly didn’t match to any of these so I decided to do a little more digging and go frame by frame on each time we see a mask to try and find identifiable details.
Eventually I was able to match it to the mask used during Busta Rhymes and Michael’s fight scene, as well as Donna’s death scene!
One feature that does not match is the overspray on the hairline. We can see in the movie screenshots that the overspray is misted just like the other masks, suggesting that it was repainted or painted over at some point.
Further evidence of this touch up is that we see two shades of brown paint, there is a darker brown that is harshly overlapping lighter brown mist:
Hope you all enjoyed the thread even if you didn’t enjoy Resurrection! Lol
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