Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Kirk & Spock Masks

Stacia at She Blogged By Night researched the history of the Captain Kirk mask used in the first (1978) Halloween movie.

Turns out, it was made from a life-cast of Shatner. 
This Spock mask from the 1970s was also from a life-cast of Nimoy. 
Both masks definitely live in the "uncanny valley"--that place where images are just close enough to real life to invoke revulsion.
Tho is the Kirk one also sort of touchingly sad?