The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast · A L Katz

S2E10 It's Forbidden

July 25, 2023·1 hr 26 min·4 clips
The Michael Myers mask from Halloween is actually a modified Bill Shatner mask I created.
Legendary makeup artist and director Bill Malone recounts his five-decade career in Hollywood, from creating the Michael Myers mask for Halloween (sourced from a William Shatner life cast) to his work on Tales from the Crypt. He shares stories of collecting iconic props from MGM's Forbidden Planet and his early obsessions with monster makeup and filmmaking.

As heard by us

A reunion that turns Tales from the Crypt production talk into a lesson in hard timing and story math.

Bill Malone's visit plays more like a reunion than a tidy retrospective, with Tales from the Crypt at the center of the conversation. The episode works best when it gets practical: five days to make an hour episode, about 10 pages a day, and the constant need to keep setups…

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Why you'd press play

If you like Tales from the Crypt production war stories, this one goes straight for the machinery, the deadlines, and the bruises.

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