I have an embarrassing confession to make. I’m not a big fan of horror movies. Yes, I’ve seen most of these movies. Yes, I am low key obsessed with crime and serial murder and I could spit facts about pretty much any serial killer’s MO that you can think of. But there’s something about the genre of horror that makes me so uncomfortable that I refuse to watch most of them with my 13 year old daughter who loves both true crime and horror. I think it’s the emotional manipulation of the soundtracks, the voracious camera angles, the way I’m led to see myself as the victim. Maybe instead of interrogating why I don’t like horror, I need to interrogate why true crime doesn’t scare me. I’ll do that later.
For some reason, while I’m watching a horror movie, I’m incapable of reminding myself that these are actors, the violence isn’t real, it’s all a fantasy and a story. Today most of what I’m seeing is CGI. But I’m enjoying these behind the scenes photos from some of the most well-known horror movie sets of the past. Check them out here:
1. Johnny Depp smoking a blunt and holding a super-soaker on the set of “Sleepy Hollow”
2. Hannibal Lector eating a french fry.
3. The twin girls on the set of “The Shining”
4. “The Birds”
5. Nick Castle as Michael Myers
7. Pennywise getting his makeup done on the set of “It”
8. Alfred Hitchcock grabs Janet Leigh’s face on the set of “Psycho”
9. “Carrie”
10. Special effects artist, Tony Pantanella, gets a zombie ready on “Night Of The Living Dead”
11. Freddy chillin’ with his walkman on the set of “Nightmare On Elm Street”
12. 1941’s “The Wolfman”
13. “The Exorcist”
14. “Saw”
15. “The Shining”
16. Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”
17. “Rosemary’s Baby”
18. “Halloween”
19. “The Shining”
20. “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2”
21. “Child’s Play”
22. “Gremlins”
23. Freddy Krueger stretching his face.
24. “Pet Sematary”
25. “Frankenstein”
26. Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of “Critters 3”
27. “The Omen”
28. Wes Craven shows Drew Barrymore a butcher knife on the set of “Scream”
29. Taking a break on the set of “Aliens”
30. “Jaws”
31. “The Fly”
32. Drew Barrymore gets bloodied up during the filming of “Scream”
33. Pennywise chillin’ on a porch.
34. “King Kong vs. Godzilla”
35. “Young Frankenstein”
36. “The Incredible Shrinking Man”
37. “The Gate”
38. Steven Spielberg in the jaws of “Jaws”
