At the end of H1, as we all know, Laurie pulls of the shape’s mask and reveals the face of Michael, which is clearly shown. In the recap at the beginning of H2, however, the scene cuts away just before Michael’s face is shown. Why do you think this was changed?
You know, I always wondered this myself, but I believe it may have been because the guy who’s face is revealed, Tony Moran, didn’t have anything to do with H2, or at least what I heard was something along those lines.
If his face would have been shown, They probably would have had to fork out some money to him. That’s my guess.
That scene is from part 1 which he was paid for, not sure if that makes a difference.
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They hired Moran for his “Angelic face”, not for his portrayal of the “shape”. 
I always thought he looked kinda like he had down syndrome when his mask was pulled off, the way his eyes and mouth looked
Doesn’t look “angelic”
Ha yeah, probably because he was breathing hard trying to choke Laurie, plus the eye wound.
That was Carpenter’s quote, not mine.lol
Did they put make up on his eyebrows? They look abnormally thicker
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That’s actually a really good question. I guess they just didn’t think it was necessary. Us seeing his face was cool, but giving it away again may have made it less effective. Part 1 was an awesome movie, and that’s another thing it had going for it. That would be my guess. I don’t see them having to pay Moran for the archive footage of his face, but maybe so.
It was either the money issue, fact that he wasn’t necessarily involved in part 2 (even though that scene of him in Mask was used) and/or maybe seeing a human face before the movie gets going would take away the scare factor throughout the movie of keeping Michael as simply an unstoppable force
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In my opinion, showing his face was the only flaw H1 had. To me, Tony didn’t look right and the prosthetic on his eye surely didn’t either.
Again, that’s just what I feel.
I sort of agree with this, because not revealing his face would have kept that creepy “shape” and “Boogeyman” vibe going, but at the same time, I feel that showing his face almost made him creepier because you look at this young, 21 year old guy that’s clean shaven and slim built, and yet he can’t die and has a really creepy, inhuman nature about him. It’s not like Jason where you see how deformed his face is and you just think, yeah I can see him being able to do those things, but when you see Michael face in H1, you just think, "how can this normal looking young guy possibly be capable of all this?"In fact, I recall John carpenter saying that when the mask came off, he wanted the audience to scream, and they did, because they were expecting to see a monster under the mask, but it’s just a kid, as he put it.
Yeah at first I didn’t like it but in time it grew on me because you do expect some hideous monster or something. But since it’s a normal looking person it kind of makes it scarier as if it could really happen somewhere.
I believe it’s because as that Halloween night went on, more and more of his humanity was slipping away. His movements in H1 and a little quicker and less robotic. After being shot and injured, his movements and more haunting (H2). So when we see his strikingly plain face in H1 and never see it again; I took that in a symbolic way.
Doesn’t look like down syndrome to me. Looks like a disturbed young man. The blank stare of a psychopathic killer.
I think it works in one, but I don’t see much point in showing it again. It would just demystify him and they were trying to make him MORE supernatural in II. That’s where they brought in the Samhain stuff and the sister angle.
I never thought of it myself and I don’t think it would be needed.