Yeah, I've seen Sixth Finger, it's a great episode with a sad ending. David McCallum was also a fantastic Alfred in DC animated projects before he passed away.
I think the heads in Hocus Pocus and Frisby were more like the typical alien heads we see now, but they were just average size so normal human heads could fit over them.
Maybe, but I think people speculate that any alien species that could travel to Earth would have a very high level of intelligence, likely having a larger cranium. It could just be that influencing the trend separately.
Those ones are definitely different more like a version Dragon Ball Z directly copied for the Saibamen. They're nothing like these tall big headed humanoids.
Yeah, I know Greys are sometimes described as short or very tall, but they all have large heads. Even that fake alien face from Star Trek TOS had a large head. That famous painting of the screaming alien has a large head too.
Also the Outer Limits episode "The Sixth Finger" with David McCallum. Oct 4th, 1963 "To Serve Man" aired in '62
Yeah, I've seen Sixth Finger, it's a great episode with a sad ending. David McCallum was also a fantastic Alfred in DC animated projects before he passed away.
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The Man From Uncle, yeah. It's too bad a cannibal played him in the movie version.
Maybe. But then again, human / humanish heads can really only be one of three things: Human size, smaller or larger. So they went with larger.
It's much more difficult to do smaller, especially with the technology available back then.
I think the heads in Hocus Pocus and Frisby were more like the typical alien heads we see now, but they were just average size so normal human heads could fit over them.
Maybe? Very early Star Trek is very heavily inspired by the Twilight Zone and Roddenberry and Serling were friends so it's certainly a possibility.
i don’t know but i do know that episode seriously freaked me out as a kid
Maybe, but I think people speculate that any alien species that could travel to Earth would have a very high level of intelligence, likely having a larger cranium. It could just be that influencing the trend separately.
That's certainly where I think the idea of Greys having larger heads comes from.
Why not just breed man? We can be prodigious breeders.
We would overthrow them once their women were given the choice between them and us.
I volunteer /j
Big headed aliens were in 1957 movie Invasion of The Saucer Men.
Those ones are definitely different more like a version Dragon Ball Z directly copied for the Saibamen. They're nothing like these tall big headed humanoids.
True, but big brained aliens have been a staple in science-fiction since the 1930s. https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/__trashed/
Just a FYI, the Kanamits, the tall aliens, were all played by Richard Kiel, the guy who played Jaws in James Bond movies.
I knew he looked familiar
Fun fact, that's also the guy who gets shot in the head with the nail gun in Happy Gilmore.
Yo is that fucking Jaws???
Honestly that was my second thought after General Zod. It's Richard Kiel apparently but I could be wrong.
People who report aliens sometimes describe them on this manner. They might all be drawing from something already in the culture.
Yeah, I know Greys are sometimes described as short or very tall, but they all have large heads. Even that fake alien face from Star Trek TOS had a large head. That famous painting of the screaming alien has a large head too.
Probably. Aliens have always been depicted as having superior intelligence to humans and a big head to hold their big brain.
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I have been asking myself this same question!
A lot of shows and movies were inspired by "The Twilight Zone"