In the battle of scary movie masks, “Friday the 13th”‘s ... emotionless face covering debuted in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic “Halloween,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis as tortured ...

When original Halloween (1978) director John Carpenter was putting together the film on an indie budget (over $300K), he had to use something to create the mask of his killer (“The Shape” as ...

The young buy then dons a Halloween mask, and director Carpenter ... After the stabbing, the film jumps forward to Halloween night, 1978. The young killer is about to break out of the sanitarium ...

Related: Halloween 1978 cast: Where are they now ... where Michael acquires his mask and knife. In 1978, the blocky brick building was home to a frame shop that stood in for a hardware store.