One of the biggest mysteries and unanswered questions surrounding Halloween 4 has been the mysterious blonde mask in the schoolhouse scene. Well, we just may have had that answered, finally. I received my box-set from Shout! Factory today and, after viewing the Producer’s Cut of Halloween 6, I popped in the bonus disc that is packed with new material. My first order of business? The NEW “making-of” featurette for Halloween 4. In the featurette, the original make-up coordinator actually touches on why that mask appears in the film. He states that they had asked Don Post Studios to, in fact, create the mask for the film. Now, what was sent to the set was apparently “a pink mask with white hair”. So, what he does is paint over the pink monstrosity with white, which he states is why the texture of the mask appears to be so “bumpy”, and colors the hair brown. Now, in regard to why the “blonde” mask appears in the school scene, he simply marks it up to production crew not paying attention and that the mask was simply just used in filming without anyone noticing.
Also, scrolling through a stills gallery for Halloween 4, there was this interesting picture of the mask that I’d never seen before. There is no mesh in the eyes and the mask is extremely weathered.
Interesting picture.
You talking about the cool features of the blu ray set makes me want to get one of these Matt. Thanks for sharing the interesting story on the masks of halloween 4
Stop it Matt.lol I need to get mine first!!
The mask in that pic doesn’t even look like the H4 mask, crazy.
Simon, the make-up coordinator also stated that they received several masks, all pink with white hair, on set, So, the mask in the picture may not be the one used for principal photography. And he did also say that the eyes if the mask(s) were cut to be bigger.
Strangely alot of the H4 promotion stills that surface are in reverse.
The shot Matt shared is from this session
Well, I definitely need to order my set now
I watched the first half of the doc yesterday. The makeup guy stated they received 6 masks with pink paint and blonde hair (I’m assuming the pink is the flesh color, as they were all Kirks). He streak tipped the hair a dark brown and painted the masks white (which is why the texture is bumpy he said). He stated that at some point in production Akkad wanted the eyes cut bigger but eh said he couldn’t do that without compromising the structural integrity of the mask (something about glue, can’t remember), I can’t remember what else was said there about the eyes. It was stated that the Kirk (white hair mask) in the school scene was just a coordination mistake and it was one of the un-converted masks they received from Don Post. He said that he asked Don Post to use the Kirk mold (which is why the school scene and the mask on the shelf in the drug store scene have uncut Kirk eyes). There is also a H4 mask on a mannequin behind the makeup guy in the interview that looks exactly like a Don post 1984 The Mask but with different eye cuts.
The documentary also has Tom Morga recalling exactly which scenes he played The Shape in.
I know what I’ll be watching tonight. Good thread Matt!
I saw a Fan edit of 4 or 5 and I think they made a mask and had to scrap it for some reason, but that shot stayed in some edits of the film.
Well … Way to ruin the suprise Matt. I’m demanding you bring this in a coulple weeks to my house
Wh-…wow, I totally forgot about this thread. Jimmy, I’ll be bringing what I can, man.
I thought this was a current thread I just looked at the date mr Pinochle. 
Don Post of Don Post Studios has stated numerous times that the studio did not make any masks for Halloween 4. Period, end of story. Also, I might add, by 1988…the Kirk master and mold were LONG gone.
Read the Gorezome magazine from 1988. They interview Ken Horn right on the set of Halloween 4 and Ken even says they used a back up mask left over from Halloween II. The people who made the movie probably didn’t understand that it was a “Tramer” mask from Halloween II that was being recasted and they probably thought the “Blonde” hair was what the original Michael Myers mask had on it…so, they added it thinking that’s what Myers had on it. That makes more sense than saying DPS sent you “pink masks with white hair.” DPS knew what color a Myers mask should have been and would have sent them white masks using white latex.
The slides being in reverse is done by a careless person who doesn’t care about the images. When you scan a transparency slide, if you have the "information’ toward/facing you, on the white boarder, it will scan incorrect and you’l have to reverse the image. Obviously, they never reversed the image.