The history of Michael Myers Halloween masks is filled with fan outrage and epic set screw-ups: Pink and blonde?!

In the battle of scary movie masks, “Friday the 13th”‘s Jason Vorhees and “Scream”‘s Ghostface don’t hold a candle to that forefather of fright, Michael Myers.The all-time greatest slasher’s cold, pale, deflated, emotionless face covering debuted in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic “Halloween,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis as tortured suburban babysitter Laurie Strode.And his mug was instantly unforgettable.In a review, Post critic Archer Winston described Michael, also known as “The Shape,” as “the very incarnation of evil, the Devil himself.” And it was vital that poor Laurie’s stalker had a paralyzing look to match his menace. The surprising origin of Michael’s first mask in the low-budget horror flick, oddly enough, is the final frontier.

It is an altered Captain Kirk costume from “Star Trek.”“It was a very simple matter of taking an existing [William Shatner] mask and modifying it in a couple of ways,” its creator Tommy Lee Wallace told Horror’s Hallowed Grounds’ Sean Clark on YouTube.“A good thing came out of it, because none of us were prepared for the effect,” he added.“It was an unbelievably terrifying, visceral effect.

And we knew we were in business — that we were gonna have a scary movie even before we got to a scary story.”Shatner, however, was none too pleased when he saw his roughed-up reflection on-screen in Carpenter’s masterpiece.“I thought, ‘Is that a joke? Are they kidding?’,” the 93-year-old “Star Trek” actor said on his YouTube Channel.Watching 1981’s “Halloween II,” at first glance it appears that Myers’ mask got an artistic revamp.But it’s actually the same piece used in the original, only with some wear and tear.Legend has it that producer Debra Hill stored the object in a shoebox beneath her bed in the years between productions.

Her heavy smoking lent the item a yellowish color.Also, “The Shape” changed shape.

The actor playing Michael was no longer Nick Cas...