This image was used in a
recent science article in New Scientist (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 autodidact of all things science, including
Evolutionary Psychology, so I need this info for a
private research project. 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 Th
aX!
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, 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):
Neolithic stone axe image:
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