Because the film had an incredibly low budget, the prop department on horror classic Halloween had to dress serial killer Michael Myers in the cheapest mask they could find in their local fancy dress shop.
Turns out that it was a mask of William Shatner, which cost them the princely sum of $2.
They modified it a bit, spray-painted it white, and made it a bit scarier and it became one of the iconic images of horror cinema.
The cheapo slasher went on to take $70m at the worldwide box office, more than 215 times its $325,000 budget. That makes it the most profitable film to feature William Shatner’s face, including Star Trek II.
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