15 Behind-The-Scenes Photos That Make Horror Movies Less Scary
Sometimes performers try to chill you. Other times, they just chill.
![15 Behind-The-Scenes Photos That Make Horror Movies Less Scary](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/9/752429_320x180.jpg?v=2)
The purpose of horror movies is to frighten you, but that doesn't mean cast and crew have to be anxious and terrified all the time. (Some directors disagree, but that's a different issue.) Behind the scenes, horror productions are more like Halloween parties where the treat is that you get to be in movies. (The trick is getting a good agent.) When the performers aren't trying to chill you, they just, well, chill -- in dress-up. And the show business counterpart of water cooler conversations shows movie monsters in a different light.
![Michael Myers really likes his Dr Pepper. - He was already chugging the stuff in the first Halloween in 1978 -- and he was still at it for the 2018 se](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/4/752444.jpg?v=2)
![There was love on the set of Creature from the Black Lagoon. - The actors beat Guillermo del Toro by several decades -- too bad the filmmakers were to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/0/752440.jpg?v=2)
![The Walking Dead don’t want to die from sunstroke. - Are zombies vulnerable to sunlight? We thought those were vampires. In any case, if you’re going](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/6/752446.jpg?v=2)
![Hannibal Lecter eats through his mask. - He can’t bite people’s faces off with that thing on, but he still needs some bite to eat -- and director Jona](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/3/752443.jpg?v=2)
![The deadites are less scary when you see the puppeteers. - Then you realize that deep down, the Evil Dead movies are partly about a dude fighting huge](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/5/752445.jpg?v=2)
![The Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth is adorable. - There’s no proof Doug Jones is saying “I have eyes only for you” here -- but then again, anything els](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/2/752442.jpg?v=2)
![Pennywise has a sweet tooth. - Children may be his main food, but even a monstrous extra-dimensional entity craves some chocolate once in a while.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/1/752441.jpg?v=2)
![Godzilla is a fun-loving monster. - Stomping on buildings? Why, he looks too friendly to even step on the girl’s toes. And we’re sure that guitar slap](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/9/752439.jpg?v=2)
![Even werewolves have to comply with beauty standards. - It’s hard to keep yourself well coiffed when the Moon makes your hair grow really fast. (This](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/8/752438.jpg?v=2)
![Funny, Pinhead never struck us as the paternal type. - Cenobites aren’t exactly childproof, and Pinhead looks particularly hazardous -- but that doesn](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/5/752435.jpg?v=2)
![Everyone in the ’70s smoked — drenched in blood or not. - We should cut young Carrie some slack here. The night when you get horribly humiliated in fr](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/4/752434.jpg?v=2)
![Even an alien onslaught will stop for cake. - Louise Head, Newt’s stunt double in Aliens, celebrated her birthday on set. You can only wish to have sp](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/6/752436.jpg?v=2)
![Becoming shark chow shouldn’t look this fun. - The mechanical shark in Jaws was nicknamed “Bruce,” after Spielberg’s lawyer -- and if this photo is an](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/3/752433.jpg?v=2)
![Frankenstein’s monster has refined manners. - Just because you’re a brute abomination born from the sins of mad science doesn’t mean you have to rudel](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/2/752432.jpg?v=2)
![Freddy’s got a gang. - As we all know, the Nightmare franchise is about cool Uncle Freddy and all the kids who hang around him to listen to his crazy](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/7/752437.jpg?v=2)