{"id":8640,"date":"2016-10-31T22:57:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2016-10-31T22:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:57:42","slug":"the-evolution-of-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/31\/the-evolution-of-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of The Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s pretty common knowledge that the face of Michael Myers, the unstoppable boogeyman of the <em>Halloween<\/em> films, is actually William Shatner&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>According to lore, the makers of the original <em>Halloween<\/em> bought a Captain Kirk mask at the local drugstore for a couple bucks, modified it a bit, and spray-painted it white. The rest, as they say, is Hollywood history, as that film went on to become one of the most successful horror flicks ever made (it was <em>the<\/em> most successful for several decades), spawning a slew of sequels, imitators, and outright rip-offs, while the Michael Myers character became an icon. Personally, I think part of the reason why Michael is so unsettling is because that blank, expressionless visage is so weirdly&#8230; <em>familiar<\/em>. But even knowing <em>why<\/em> he looks familiar, I&#8217;ve had trouble actually seeing my boyhood hero in that face of evil.<\/p>\n<p>Not any more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/halloween_shatner-to-michael-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/halloween_shatner-to-michael-1.jpg\" alt=\"halloween_shatner-to-michael\" width=\"592\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/halloween_shatner-to-michael-1.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/halloween_shatner-to-michael-1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s even more unsettling now.<\/p>\n<p>Just something to ponder as Halloween 2016 winds down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s pretty common knowledge that the face of Michael Myers, the unstoppable boogeyman of the Halloween films, is actually William Shatner&#8217;s. According to lore, the makers of the original Halloween bought a Captain Kirk mask at the local drugstore for a couple bucks, modified it a bit, and spray-painted it white. The rest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[56,71,72,95],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-general-ramblings","tag-halloween","tag-mask","tag-michael-myers","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}