Raising the horror quotient, HalloweenThe central threat is referred to as “The Shape” in the closing credits. And most of the original film was shaped by a friend of Carpenter's. Nick Castle.
“Maybe he got paid a couple hundred bucks or something,” Curtis told Rotten Tomatoes of Castle. “I mean, no one got paid, nothing at all. I think I was paid $8,000 for the whole film, which at the time was $2,000 a week to be the lead in a film.”
Carpenter explained: “I loved the way he moved. He came from a family of dancers, so he had a grace, a strange grace. Besides, he was free. He was cheap. So he put the suit on and I said, “Now get out of here.” And that was all.”
Tommy Lee Wallacewho edited the film together with Charles Bornsteinalso spent time wearing a mask to make ends meet, and Anthony Moran played by Michael for that brief moment when you see his face. But Castle instinctively came up with a terrifying head tilt.
“The direction of the first one was zero,” Castle recalled. KinoNet in 2018. “It was really just, 'Come across the street and come to me.'
Ultimately, he said, “If there's a lesson to be learned from all of this, it's that sometimes things happen for no reason, and you have the right elements at the right time.”
After this, the mask was put on by several increasingly stronger stuntmen, starting with Dick Warlock like “Form” in Halloween II. He was replaced George P. Wilbur (twice), Don Shanks, Chris Durant And Brad Laurie. Fighter Tyler Maine took over control of Rob Zombie-directed reboots and James Jude Courtneyworking alongside Castle, he did the honors in the last three films starring Curtis.
