hollowman
08-31-2010, 01:33 AM
http://13oct1967.com/images/Scary-face.jpg
This image was used in a recent science article in New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627644.500-im-smiling-so-i-know-youre-happy.html) (I scanned in the pic from the print issue because the online article ditched the image (too scary for the Net ? ). FYI: New Scientist is the major weekly science mag in the UK.
Anyway, no source was given for the image -- it looks like a still from an early-1960s film or TV series (B&W photography, hairstyle).
It's a great, scary face ... so where did it come from? (I.e, movie, TV series, etc. (looks very Twillight Zoneish, so episode, please)).
Please note that by "scary faces", I am primarily (though not exclusively) referring to faces of scared humans (and possibly other mammals).
BTW: can you (the membership of the Horror.com forum) post some more scary faces? Reason: I am an O/C (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder) autodidact of all things science, including Evolutionary Psychology (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolutionary-psychology/), so I need this info for a private research project (http://sites.google.com/site/psychevol/). And I just plain dig scary faces. If there is an evo top-10 list of horrific perceptions, a scary face is likely near the top.
Thx! ...or should I say ThaX!
P.S. Here are other scary faces -- the whole scene in the first image is pretty spooky, too ;) Note, the eyes are closed ... so some of the long-held views that wide-open eyes being the scariest component of a scary face may not be all that true!! Face plus environment, perhaps. Axes, and other sharp instruments/tools BY APPEARANCE ALONE are innately scary, because like snakes and spiders (http://spiderbitesonline.com/spiders.php), they go back a long way (as the fossil records indicate; see Neolithic stone axe image at bottom). Guns and bombs, despite being way deadlier, are not so scary, since they are new, evolutionarily speaking.
From The Shining (1980):
http://13oct1967.com/images/shiningbloodygirls.jpg
http://www.collativelearning.com/PICS%20FOR%20WEBSITE/SHINING%20EXPANDED%204/danny%20gaping%20mouth%201.jpg
Neolithic stone axe image (http://factoidz.com/images/user/stone_ax_digging_cutting(1).jpg):
http://factoidz.com/images/user/stone_ax_digging_cutting(1).jpg
This image was used in a recent science article in New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627644.500-im-smiling-so-i-know-youre-happy.html) (I scanned in the pic from the print issue because the online article ditched the image (too scary for the Net ? ). FYI: New Scientist is the major weekly science mag in the UK.
Anyway, no source was given for the image -- it looks like a still from an early-1960s film or TV series (B&W photography, hairstyle).
It's a great, scary face ... so where did it come from? (I.e, movie, TV series, etc. (looks very Twillight Zoneish, so episode, please)).
Please note that by "scary faces", I am primarily (though not exclusively) referring to faces of scared humans (and possibly other mammals).
BTW: can you (the membership of the Horror.com forum) post some more scary faces? Reason: I am an O/C (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder) autodidact of all things science, including Evolutionary Psychology (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolutionary-psychology/), so I need this info for a private research project (http://sites.google.com/site/psychevol/). And I just plain dig scary faces. If there is an evo top-10 list of horrific perceptions, a scary face is likely near the top.
Thx! ...or should I say ThaX!
P.S. Here are other scary faces -- the whole scene in the first image is pretty spooky, too ;) Note, the eyes are closed ... so some of the long-held views that wide-open eyes being the scariest component of a scary face may not be all that true!! Face plus environment, perhaps. Axes, and other sharp instruments/tools BY APPEARANCE ALONE are innately scary, because like snakes and spiders (http://spiderbitesonline.com/spiders.php), they go back a long way (as the fossil records indicate; see Neolithic stone axe image at bottom). Guns and bombs, despite being way deadlier, are not so scary, since they are new, evolutionarily speaking.
From The Shining (1980):
http://13oct1967.com/images/shiningbloodygirls.jpg
http://www.collativelearning.com/PICS%20FOR%20WEBSITE/SHINING%20EXPANDED%204/danny%20gaping%20mouth%201.jpg
Neolithic stone axe image (http://factoidz.com/images/user/stone_ax_digging_cutting(1).jpg):
http://factoidz.com/images/user/stone_ax_digging_cutting(1).jpg