10 Backstage Photos That Make Scary Movies Look Hilarious

Oh, and remember that infamous shot of Freddy's claw emerging from the bathtub?

Well, the reverse angle is decidedly less frightening ...

And for close-up shots, there was no need to use the costumed actor; any crew member wearing a Freddy glove and one of his sleeves would do.

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 ...

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

And here he is dancing a jig:

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

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.

Or whiling away the time by smoking in bathrobes:

And of course, playfully exposing themselves:

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?

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.

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:

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

And this is how the deadite puppets got around:

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

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

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

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

Interestingly, he switched to stockings for the sequel:

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

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

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