Old-School Photos That Prove Humans Have Always Been Weird

The Alien Test Audience Shows How Movies Used To Actually Be Scary

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Kids nowadays aren’t scared by anything. Decades of slasher, gore, found-footage, and suspense films have made us too tolerant for scary movies. This photo from 1979 of the test audience for Alien shows how old horror movies could actually keep us up at night. Except for the guy at the front right. He’s giving off serial killer vibes.

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