8 On-Set Photos That Break The Spell Of Famous Horror Films

And here's Jack Nicholson, apparently strolling around the set with several important bits flapping around in the breeze.

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Presumably later, after Jack got himself decent, he grabs his ax and takes a few wild practice swings. A process which the crew has obviously learned to work around:

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And that iconic blood-filled elevator? The one from your nightmares? Well it looks a lot less terrifying and a lot more tedious when you see the poor crew who had to mop it up afterwards:

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And those creepy, probably evil twins? Yeah, they're here too, and they ...

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... they still look pretty creepy. Look at those smiles. They look like they've come from ritualistically slaughtering a calf at the craft services table.

Even in full movie monster regalia, Godzilla is quite a bit less scary when you see how well-mannered he is. Shaking hands:

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Escorting a lady:

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And being discreetly affectionate on a date:

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Well how about that. In real life, Godzilla was less a monster and more a carefree, fun-loving lizard guy.

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Here's one getting dressed for a wedding.

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Not all of them were that stylish, though. Check out the bitchin' sleeveless shirt on this Pteranodon:

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During filming, the dinosaurs had to be serviced from time to time, which led to even more absurdity.

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Or this guy, disinterestedly watching a dinosaur face-hump a woman, like he sees this a couple times a day.

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OK, but that's a smile and a cigarette and a tense child. That's not that lighthearted. Well check out this, which is either an extremely well-timed photobomb or a promo shot for a legal thriller about high-stakes criminal lawyers whose only glimmer of happiness comes from the antics of paralegal Sunny the Clown.

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Pan's Labyrinth was a creepy movie filled with creepy creatures, but the absolute creepiest had to be the Pale Man. He was ghostly and thin and had freaking eyes in his hands -- a fever dream come to life.

He's also utterly adorable:

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Having made a living almost exclusively playing nightmare-inducing thin men, legendary monster movie actor Doug Jones seems right at home as the skin sack of doom. Here he is sashaying down the hallway.

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And here he is hamming it up with his makeup team.

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And here's him and his six roommates navigating their way through life in the big city, dealing with jobs and breakups, and even learning a little bit about themselves.

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So if we take it for a given that he's a remorseless butcher, it's a little jarring to see that in reality, he was little more than an oaf with a penchant for cheating at gin rummy.

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Somehow even less menacingly, Leatherface may have had an undiagnosed inner ear problem, as evidenced by this outtake.

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Thanks to what we're guessing is "movie magic" he somehow survived falling on a chainsaw. Still, that probably isn't the most terrifying thing you've seen today, we imagine. Unless you're a first aid attendant.

And then there's this photo, taken in the most '70s room in existence, in which we see the cast and crew gathered to listen to a motley band of flare-legged slashers all wearing Michael Myers masks:

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Or wearing these neon shades:

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And then there's the show's cast and crew, who can't keep their grubby hands off the poor undead:

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Or lips:

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To be fair, there aren't many warm bodies left in the show's universe, and the zombie women are better-written than at least half the female characters. So this may be the show's creators trying to get out in front of the inevitable zombie/human slashfic by turning the show into a zomromcom.

We'd watch it.

Carolyn almost exclusively watches horror movies, and is the owner of a quite scary Twitter account.

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