10 Backstage Photos That Make Scary Movies Look Hilarious

As for Tina's horrifying death, whereby she gets bloodily dragged across a ceiling by unseen forces, the image of which is probably burned in your memory ...

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Here it is again, just in case you forgot.

Well, you can thank two dudes for lifting the stuntwoman in place to get the shot of her falling to the bed. Two dudes who for some reason took off their shirts beforehand. Guess they didn't want to wreck their good work clothes.

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Unless those are their good work clothes.

Yup, the stunt double for Newt, Louise Head, had her birthday party on set, attended by space marines and an android. Kind of makes your fifth birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's seem like a rancid pile of donkey shit in comparison, huh? Everyone got involved. Here's Head and Sigourney Weaver clowning around doing their best impression of the Alien Queen:

20th Century Fox
Unless this is an assault. This might be assault.

This wasn't even the first surprisingly charming behind-the-scenes moment for the franchise. Back in the first movie, there were several shots of the Nostromo crew exploring the crashed spaceship. That had the potential to be really expensive to film, so to save money, they only made a half-size set and threw a couple of kids in spacesuits into it.

20th Century Fox
Picture probably not actual size, but really, who can be sure anymore?

Cool. One of the all-time great horror movies also evidently looked like the set of a space-based Sunny D commercial.

Even that poor girl trapped down the well seems in high spirits.

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Though Precious is looking a little stiff.

And there was always time for the crew to grab selfies with Buffalo Bill's human-skin-suit prop.

Orion Pictures
God, we hope that's a prop.

Even the recent Hannibal TV show was apparently silly as hell behind the scenes. There's simply no way to wear those outfits without a bit of clowning around. Here's Lecter puffing a cigarette in his trademark mask:

Dino de Laurentiis Company
His second-grossest habit.

And here's that creepy antler monster that Will Graham keeps hallucinating:

Dino de Laurentiis Company
Like the dark and gritty Tick reboot no one asked for.

Yikes. That's less "manifestation of pure evil" and more "guy at a Halloween party realizing there's no way to pee in his dumbass costume."

And what's more relatable than a man, even a hell man, scarfing down some pizza?

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Even the forces of darkness are allowed to have cheat days.

And Pinhead isn't always wearing that black leather ensemble -- that's just for the office. When off work, he's perfectly happy throwing on a T-shirt to go toss the football around.

Dimension Films
Gotta work on his release a bit, though.

And sure, he's a monster cobbled together with scraps of corpses, but he's not monster enough to refuse a slice of delicious cake.

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He wasn't actually invited to this, but who was going to stop him?

Similarly, the Creature from the Black Lagoon was a total goofball. Here he is mopping up around the pool:

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Gotta keep your lagoon looking its blackest.

And here he is dancing a jig:

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Or having to go to the bathroom.

And of course, making out with his co-star:

Universal Pictures
More like Creature from the Grope Lagoon.

The Bela Lugosi version of Dracula is another classic, which we will now ruin by showing the cast trying to figure out what the hell was supposed to happen in it with the help of a comically oversized book.

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"He has to what her blood?"

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"I have to suck your vhat?"

Or whiling away the time by smoking in bathrobes:

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Like some kind of leathery, subterranean Rat Pack. Bat Pack, we guess.

And of course, playfully exposing themselves:

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Not Safe For Aboveground Viewers.

Probably a good reason they were kept separate, then. It'd be lot harder to be scared of these guys after you've seen Crawlers Gone Wild.

For instance, here's Anthony Perkins, who played Bates, having his picture taken in front of the ominous Bates house. And what better way to advertise the story of a serial killer whose best friend is a corpse in a rocking chair than by having the actor happily perch on a ladder bordered by smiling girls in matching outfits?

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More gore? We'd use more gore. Maybe a scarier ladder, too.

Even stranger, a couple years after the movie came out, Harper's Bazaar had a photo shoot at the Bates Motel, featuring Hitchcock creeping on a young model.

Harper's Bazaar
He didn't have to act much.

This is unsettling on its own merits, and even moreso when you realize it's as if someone asked Hitch to perform an interpretive dance inspired by the future allegations against him.

Or forgoing the black magic she used to hover, and instead lying on top of some plywood:

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Or, least evil of all, noodling on a piano:

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Making my way downtown, walking fast, Faces pass and I'm home bound

And this is how the deadite puppets got around:

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How the Henson company would have looked if it was built on top of an ancient Native burial ground.

There were still human versions of the deadites, but they were hardly more terrifying:

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The Evil Read.

And here's the same guy, having a chuckle with his makeup artist.

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Just some dudes gabbing and laughing and and unable to close their mouths.

... was in a few shots an animatronic puppet controlled by a team of nerds.

Columbia Pictures
The crew gave them those hats to identify them as nerds.

And Slimer is certainly less horrifying when you see him wearing jeans:

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Interestingly, he switched to stockings for the sequel:

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Making him look like the world's creepiest Rockette.

Oh, and here's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man with his head off:

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"I ... should ... not ... be."

That ... that is actually quite a bit more terrifying than before. They were right to burn him.

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