UGLY MUGS

In the conventional sense, monsters are not meant to be "beautiful" -- instead they are almost always quite the opposite (unless it's the monster lurking inside a "normal"-looking person). Monsters are intended to scare us, and what better way to do that than to depict disfigurement of the face and body, typified in the image above from THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA. Human ugliness has been shunned for centuries and those unfortunate enough to have been born or become that way have suffered humiliation, persecution and oftentimes, worse. 

Some of the most frightening memories that many of us have of monster movies is the horrible visages that have been constructed by the skilled hands of makeup artists and special effects technicians. Whether the character elicits pathos or pure evil, they still possess the basic element of fear and repulsion.

This gallery shows the various ways that ugliness and disfigurement have been used to scare the hell out of us on TV or at the movies.

Fright Night.

Incredibly Strange Creatures...etc.

Island of Lost Souls.

Jack the Ripper.

Mysteries of Paris.

The Night Walker.

Nightmare Castle.

The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe.

Tales from the Crypt.

Tales of Tomorrow.

Tarantula.

The Manster.

The Vampire.

Tomb of Torture.

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