However, this mask is nothing like the one's from anywhere around my area, it's something special. Full headed (no slit in the back) rubber mask with grainy fibers mixed with the rubber, very strong and thick made. You can't really tell in the picture on the left but the ears are about 6 inches tall and come to a point. When worn the mask straightens up and is hot after a while. "It'll make you sweat hard!" After I got this mask I'd wear it during the  Halloween season, I'd even put the black eye makeup on and go rolling (toilet papering) yards with some friends. Here's a funny story, one year when rolling I was given the duty of carrying the toilet paper bag. As in any small town, the town cop usually patrols through the neighbor hood to watch for rollers and watch out for trick or treaters. I was walking down the road with my friends and the town cop stopped next to us and said to me "Batman! out fighting crime?" and just as he said that the toilet paper bag fell and a few rolls came out. I said "Yes sir!" He just looked down at the rolls and grinned, talked to my friends and drove off.

The next year our school was having another Halloween dance and I went as Batman. Remember in the Batman series no one could tell that Bruce Wayne was Batman even if they saw them both up close. You would think that it wouldn't be that hard to determine who might be under one of these masks but you'd be wrong. A few girls in my class and a few other people couldn't tell it was me under the mask. They walked up to me and would say, "Who are you?" and I'd slightly change my voice and say "I'm Batman!"

The mask itself is made of shiny latex and made very thin. It has a slit in the back for easy on and off wearing. The time that I had gotten the last few pieces that I could afford our school had another Halloween dance, I again went as a full suited Batman minus the actual cape and gloves :). There are images of each piece of the suit in the images section of this site.

I always thought I was the only one in my class who was a Star Wars nut, an actual fan of the series. Some of my classmates to me seemed to be out of touch with science fiction so I never really discussed it around them. One day in class around Halloween the next year, a girl in my class and I got into a discussion about Star Wars (I forget how we got into the conversation). She said that her favorite character was Darth Vader, I told her I had a Darth Vader helmet mask at home. I brought it to school the next day and showed it to her. She thought it was cool.

The look of the mask as you can tell looks pretty cool and spooky. The mask is a the almost full-headed kind and made from latex. The mask looks very cool though when I put one of my custom made Jason masks over it.

The mask is made of vinyl which is pretty tough stuff. It's completely full-headed, even goes down over the neck. It's also over sized which is about the right size of Jason's head in the movie. It measures like, 2 and a half feet around or more and about 3 feet tall. I made a stand for it because it's so big, held it up one time way up in the air about as far as I could and told my sis, "Can you believe Jason is this huge?" I suppose that started my Jason mask collecting. 

The mask has leather straps, made of fiberglass and the pain job is excellent. It has 3 pads inside to prevent skin contact with the fiberglass (but it's painted inside anyway). It's kinda on the thin side but strong. The mask is styled after the 8th Friday the 13th Movie "Jason Takes Manhattan".

The mask on the left I bought from a website which had an ad or went by "The Real Shape". They took a newly released 1998/99 William Shatner mask and converted it into the Michael Myers mask and sold them for 100 bucks a piece. They were only selling so may of these and I got into a chat forum just about the mask itself and had to have one. It's a really nice mask, a Don Post Studios 1998 (so says the stamp on it). Sure the mask itself isn't very detail as for texture but it looks freaky in the near-dark! After I had gotten this mask I found out that someone had gotten their hands on an actual 1975 Shatner mask, were copying the mask and making Myers masks out of it. The masks had the same detail as the original because they were just like the original. Only a limited number of those masks were sold and I didn't get to get one. A cool thing came from getting this mask, I started up a Yahoo Group called "Michael Myers Mask Collectors". We had more than a few members, I am sorry to say though I stopped going to the group even though others were keeping it alive. My heart wasn't in it, I found something new called Farscape. I did go in from time to time and apologized for not being there but the group members didn't care and it soon just dropped off the Yahoo Group map.