History Main / FacialHorror

** "Hannah Banana" had a cutaway where Chris smashed Peter's face between two logs ala ''Film/SawIV''. Miraculously, he survives despite [[EyeScream one of his eyeballs hanging out his socket]], part of his bone structure sticking out of his face and overall disfigurement and [[TooDumbToLive stupidly,]] he did to win a free hat.

* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'': After Phobos [[spoiler: kills Uncle]], Jade goes into an UnstoppableRage and slashes his face, destroying his left eye, removing his nose, and taking a chunk out of his right cheek.

-->-- '''Mr Plinkett''', ''WebVideo/RedLetterMedia''

* In ''VideoGame/CorpseParty: Another Child'', there are the three ghosts of the children murdered in the [[EldritchLocation Heavenly Host Elementary School]]. The teacher who killed them used scissors to mutilate them, prompting their spirits to seek revenge on the unlucky victims transported and trapped in the dilapidated school by killing them the same way as was done to them. Out of the three ghosts, Tokiko is the most worse for wear. This is because while the other two ghosts, Yuki and Ryou, only lost an eye and tongues, Tokiko lost the [[http://mangafox.me/manga/corpse_party_another_child/v01/c004/32.html ENTIRE TOP HALF OF HER HEAD, LEAVING NOTHING BUT AN EXPOSED TONGUE AND LOWER JAW]].

** "Hannah Banana" had a cutaway where Chris smashed Peter's face between two logs ala ''Film/SawIV''. Miraculously, he survives despite one of his eyeballs hanging out his socket, part of his bone structure sticking out of his face and overall disfigurement and [[TooDumbToLive stupidly,]] he did to win a free hat.

** It also happened to ComicBook/TheJoker during the incident with the vat of acid. Taken UpToEleven in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, especially when ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'' comes around.

* Several miscellaneous cosmetics in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' follow this. One, in particular, is the Medic's [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Second_Opinion Second Opinion]], which gives him a discolored skin graft on the left side of his face that is also a malevolent {{split personality}} (well, [[UpToEleven more malevolent than normal Medic]]).

* A less horrifying example is ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Hats Off to Smurfs", where a new yellow hat worn by Vanity causes his face to be disfigured every time he gets it wet by washing his face with water.

* Vlad Menshikov from ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' had part of his face, along with his lungs and eyes, burned when he tried and failed to awaken Ra.

** ComicBook/TwoFace is a prime example As mentioned below, it's especially gruesome in the ComicBook/New52, the Nolan films, and the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''. [[DependingOnTheArtist Some artists]], as well as ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the aforementioned ''Arkham'' series, have gone into BodyHorror and included his left arm in the scarring with [[spoiler: a hallucination of the Joker in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]'' not-subtly wondering to Batman if this included Two-Face's penis.]]

* Happens to the Spiteful Brakevan (a bullying caboose) at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Brake Van" (The Scottish Twins' debut episode).]] [[spoiler: He is smashed into pieces after being hit by one of the aforementioned Scottish Twins head-on, and in the process, his face is ''torn off his body.'']]

* After the titular ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' [[spoiler:destroys the videotapes and contracts keeping Swan, Phoenix and himself immortal, Swan’s face begins to rapidly putrefy before he is stabbed to death]].

* A fourth-season episode of ''Series/QuincyMD'' ("The Depth of Beauty") involves an incompetent plastic surgeon who kills two women and leaves an actress with a horribly disfigured face. Includes a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming when Quincy gently unpins the actress' veil and kisses her; also a Crowning Moment of Awesome when she later accuses the plastic surgeon by revealing her face on live television.

* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has Thanos suffering from a horrible burn scar on the left of his face, including the loss of an entire ear. That is because [[spoiler:he's destroyed the Infinity Stones using their own power, and the power surge has seemingly destroyed the gauntlet and taken Thanos's left side as a result.]] Later, [[spoiler:Tony is shown with the same scar after snapping Thanos and his forces out of existence.]]
* How Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face in ''Film/BatmanForever''. Unlike the Two-Face of ''The Dark Knight'', the facial scarring was the result of an acid attack by underworld kingpin Boss Maroni.
** This is also how Jack Napier became ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Film/Batman1989''; a combination of being shot through the face and a ''huge'' vat of acid (which did wonders to the rest of his body and hair too). Later, he disfigures his girlfriend Alicia by corroding half her face.
* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' - Barbara's first attempt to frighten off the new tenants of their house. When they open the closet door, she's swinging from a noose - then yanks her face off, leaving a freaky skull with bugged-out eyeballs. Too bad they couldn't see her...

* In ''Film/Bloodshot2020'', among the injuries that Ray takes and regenerates with his HealingFactor are shots that tear the skin off the left side of his face to expose his teeth.

* When the evil Red Skull peels off his mask to reveal the facial deformity that gave him his name, sidekick Bucky mutters to [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]], "You don't have one of those, do you?"
* This is the fate of [[spoiler:the AlphaBitch Chris Hargensen]] in the 2013 remake of ''Film/{{Carrie|2013}}''. [[spoiler:She gets thrown through a windshield when Carrie crashes her car, leaving her face torn up with huge shards of glass sticking out.]]

** Aside from Harvey, the Joker's habit of threatening to give his victims {{Glasgow grin}}s invokes this trope. [[GoryDiscretionShot You don't actually get to see any of them happen, though.]]

* Pictured on this page is Wade Wilson after he gains his powers in ''Film/Deadpool2016'', which results in his face getting horribly disfigured. He covers it up for most of the film with his outfit's mask, though at the end of the film, Vanessa takes off Wade's mask to reveal a cutout of Creator/HughJackman's face hiding his scarred face before that is removed too. All of this even gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at one moment of the film.

* [[spoiler: Krueger's]] face gets blown off by a grenade during the 2nd half of ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. [[spoiler: However, that doesn't kill him.]]

* The premise of ''Film/FaceOff'', which involves Sean Archer taking Castor Troy's face and voice. Afterward, Archer's original face is left floating in a jar of water to keep it moisturized. Castor wakes up from the coma, peels off the bandages in front of a mirror, and is very unhappy with what he sees. We only see a couple of very quick glances that show Castor walking around without his face on, prior to making Dr. Walsh give him Archer's original face.

* In ''Film/FightClub'' The Narrator punches Angel Face's... um, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment face]] so hard it's barely recognizably human, and most of his teeth are gone.
* In ''Film/TheFinal'', Emily smears flesh-eating chemicals on [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather's]] faces in order to ruin their good looks, [[spoiler:as revenge for their AlphaBitch tendencies and their bullying. Bridget is seen in the film's BookEnds as an outcast, wearing a hoodie to hide her disfigured face.]]
* Seth Brundle's face falls off in a slimy mess near the end of ''Film/TheFly1986''.
* In ''Film/TheFlyII'', a security guard gets a face full of acid vomit from Brundle's son. The worst part is, he's still breathing afterward.

* The eponymous ''[[Film/TheGirlOnTheThirdFloor Girl On The Third Floor]]'' has a bizarre, mangled face that looks more like ground beef than anything. It's possible that [[spoiler: this was the state her body was left in when she was originally killed.]] There's also the death of [[spoiler: Milo, whose left eye is replaced by a gaping hole when Sarah hits him with a hammer]] and the state of [[spoiler: (the fake) Don's face when Liz finds him after attempting to cut the Nymph's marbles out of his body.]]
* ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad''. In the {{Backstory}} the Grand Vizier of Marabia had his whole head badly scarred by a fireball (think melted wax). He wears a helmet all through the movie, until near the end when he takes it off to frighten some natives with his hideous face.

* Mild example - when Music/TheMonkees made their movie ''Film/{{Head}}'' they made every effort to distance themselves from their cultivated image. In a parody of boxing movies, preteen heartthrob Davy Jones got his face beaten to a bloody pulp by sparring partner Sonny Liston (think the Mike Tyson of the '60s). Intercut into this we see Jones joshing with Liston beforehand, saying "You won't hurt the face, will you? Million-dollar face, this is!"
* ''Film/HouseOfTheWitch'': Dax gets a wound on his back early on in the movie. As time goes on, the wound somehow turns into a large collection of pustules covering half his face.
* The cloaked and horribly disfigured killer in ''Film/HouseOfWax1953'' (and the original ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum''). [[spoiler: He is actually Henry Jarrod, the wax sculptor who was presumed dead when his business partner set his museum on fire. He made a [[LatexPerfection perfect wax mask of his former face]] when he returned to open [[WaxMuseumMorgue his new museum]].]]
** Done again by Creator/VincentPrice in his ''[[Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes]]'' movies, almost certainly as an homage.
* ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'': Vincent wears a wax mask to hide [[spoiler:a whole section of his face ''missing'' from when he was separated from his brother Bo, joined at the back of the latter's head.]]

* An infamous scene where a man caves in another man's face with a fire extinguisher in ''Film/{{Irreversible}}''. [[spoiler:Poor Alex also has her face beaten and mangled so badly that she will never be beautiful again.]]

* In ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn''. Hakan [[spoiler:pours acid over his own face as an attempt to become unidentifiable to the police. He lives, and the effect is ''horrifying''.]]

* Macon in ''Film/MurderParty''. [[spoiler:He tries to light a cigarette while wearing a rubber or latex wolf mask, which naturally catches ablaze. His friend Lexi and the photo assistant of his friend Paul manage to put the fire out, but not before it horribly disfigures him, fusing much of the mask to his face. He remains like this until he dies, though that isn't very much later.]]

* The fake social worker from ''Film/TheOrphanage'' gets hit by a bus, and you can see her lower jaw completely unhinged, hanging off from her face. Even worse, before the face is fully shown the main character's husband tries giving her CPR.
** Ironically, her face ended up as worse than [[spoiler: her son's Tomas, who was forced by her, because of his disfigured features, to wear an actually much more unsettling scarecrow mask]].
* One of the most well-known images of ''Film/Overlord2018'' is its [[BigBad main villain]] Wafner missing most of his left cheek while sporting a SlasherSmile, after having been shot in the face about two-thirds through the film and taken the [[PsychoSerum serum]] to save his life.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', one of the {{Kaiju}} gets subjected to a dose of this during a deep-sea battle, thanks to a conveniently placed hydrothermal vent. Not enough to kill, but the thing had a lot less face by the time it broke free.
* A similar scene in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', except with the bottom of a bottle of wine. And later on, [[spoiler: the villain is given half a GlasgowGrin with a kitchen knife which gives him some trouble with enjoying whiskey afterwards.]]

* After the titular ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' [[spoiler: destroys the videotapes and contracts keeping Swan, Phoenix and himself immortal, Swan’s face begins to rapidly putrefy before he gets stabbed to death.]]
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', Will Turner is searching a shipwreck for survivors when a man falls from aloft. Will helps the guy turn over, only to recoil in horror when he sees that his face is a twitching mass of sloughed-off skin and one moving eyeball due to an encounter with the giant suckers on the Kraken's tentacles.
* In ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'', FatBastard Gomez suffers horrendous facial burns (and [[EyeScream loses an eye]]) when Antonio tosses a pan of boiling oil in his face while escaping the dungeon.
* In ''Film/{{REC}}'', Alex has extremely nasty and gruesome bite wounds on his face after encountering Mrs. Izquierdo.
* ''Film/RedMist'' has [[AssholeVictim Sean]] suffering arguably the most horrific death in the film - having a funnel forcefully shoved into his mouth, duct-taped to his face... and ''industrial-strength acid'' poured into it. After his corpse is discovered, it is mentioned that half of his face had practically melted off.
* In ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:Amber Sweet's]] face is horrifically scarred from repeated low-quality surgeries. Rotti gets her a transplant, but during the climax, [[spoiler: her transplanted face falls off during her performance at the titular Genetic Opera, and she storms off the stage in embarrassment.]]

* Niki Lauda's horrific burns in ''Film/{{Rush|2013}}'' after being pulled out of his burning car during the German Grand Prix where his helmet was knocked off and the Nomex sock he wore was not enough to protect his face.

* The ''Pride'' victim in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'': a model whose face has been mutilated by Doe; she was given the option to call for help and live disfigured, or commit suicide by taking pills.
* ''Film/ShallowGrave'', the scene where the titular grave is about to be filled. But the dental records need to be removed. Up comes the hammer, [[GoryDiscretionShot then down again, off-screen]]. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExsDEsd3pKw Crunch]]''.
* The villain in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' looks pretty normal, until he's captured and confronted by his former boss, M, who sold him out to the Chinese. He explains how he was tortured for months before attempting to commit suicide via the CyanidePill in his back molar. It didn't work. What it did instead is revealed when he removes a prosthetic from his mouth and the left side of his face just ''sags inwards''.

** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', his {{fanboy}}ish successor Kylo Ren subverts this. The heroine Rey calls Ren a "creature in a mask", likening him to his idol Vader -- to which he responds with a DramaticUnmask that reveals [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse a pretty normal face]]. Later in the movie, [[spoiler:Rey does slash him across the face with a lightsaber, but even that scar isn't at all disfiguring]].

* In ''Film/Suspiria2018'', [[spoiler:we get a nice and very up-close shot of Olga's jaw being slowly twisted out of its hinges during her iconic [[CruelAndUnusualDeath 'destruction' scene]]. Later, we also see Olga's decomposing (but still breathing) body laying on the floor of the mirror room, complete with a few close-ups of her motionless and discolored face, fractured jaw still clearly visible]].
* In the "Cat From Hell" segment in ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' the cat has killed nearly every member of an old man's family (to get revenge for some brutal animal testing he did to earn his fortune), and the old man hires a hitman to kill the cat. The cat keeps evading all attempts to kill it, getting a few claw swipes at the hitman's face, and then finishing him off by [[OrificeInvasion leaping into his mouth]], making the hitman choke to death as the cat is crawling down his throat. The old man is taken out when he comes back home, sees the hitman's body, sees [[OrificeEvacuation the cat crawl back out of the hitman's mouth]], and the old man dies of a heart attack.

* In the remake of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' Leatherface has a disease that makes the skin on his face decay. it's only seen briefly in profile, but it isn't pretty.
* In ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1993}}'', one of the guards/torturers in the dungeon is a hulking misfit with a very creepy face, disfigured by many severe burns and dermal neurofibromas.

** Earlier in the film, Optimus is in a three-on-one fight between Megatron, Starscream, and [[AllThereInTheManual Grindor]], and kills the latter by stabbing a pair of hooks into his face and tearing his head apart.
* One of the prisoners on the Recognizer in ''Film/TronLegacy'' has half of his face derezzed. When that particular program looks at Sam Flynn, he just growls.
* The SoBadItsGood b-movie ''Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness'' has Mike Strauber, a man who, among other things, cuts a chunk of his own face off when dared to do so.

* The Djinn of ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' is particularly fond of mutilating people's faces. In the first film, for instance, he uses his powers to make a criminal unwillingly rip out a cop's lower jaw, tongue still intact.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' features the character Dr. Poison, who covers the lower half of her face with a segmented porcelain mask that makes her look like a broken doll. Towards the end of the movie, the mask is torn away to reveal that her nose and mouth are horribly burned and melted, giving her half a GlasgowGrin that's missing half its teeth.

* In the ''Literature/ErebusSequence'', it turns out that the reason Anea wears a veil and can't speak is that she doesn't have a jaw.
* In the novel version of ''Literature/FightClub'', by the end the narrator has had both cheeks ruined--one split open after a tooth punched a hole in it, and further fights exacerbated the injury to the point that it became half a GlasgowGrin, and the other [[spoiler: opened by a gunshot]]. The former injury is omitted from the film.

* In the climax of ''Literature/TheGhostWriter'', [[spoiler:Alice Jessell's face is revealed to be horribly deformed.]]

** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' describes Alastor Moody's face as rough and misshapen, with heavy scarring and a big chunk of his nose missing. He also averts EyesAreUnbreakable, since his most striking feature is his bulging, lopsided GlassEye (they don't call him "[[MadEye Mad-Eye]] Moody" for nothing, you know). Chalk it up to years and years of ferocious battles against practitioners of TheDarkArts.
** At the end of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', [[spoiler:Bill Weasley]] gets mauled by Fenrir Greyback and acquires a series of nasty facial scars that are compared to Moody's.

* Hester Shaw from the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series, who sports a very nasty scar and is missing an eye and most of her nose as a result of being attacked during her childhood.
* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Erik the opera ghost. He has a deformed face and body and therefore hides himself away from the world and lives beneath the Paris opera house.

* In ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'', Hartnet is an otherwise attractive young woman who is missing her nose. She wears a veil (and later a helmet with a nose guard) to cover it, but people are still unnerved by the sight of her.

* Towards the end of ''Literature/TheShining'', Danny tries to break his father from the hotel's influence (and temporarily succeeds), only to have Jack become completely possessed and forced to smash the roque mallet into his own face, repeatedly, until it is a barely-recognisable mess. [[spoiler:This fully kills Jack and allows the ghosts to take full control of his body.]]
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' Sandor Clegane's burned face is described as horrifying, Shireen Baratheon's is badly scarred by greyscale and [[spoiler: Brienne's was half '''eaten''' by Biter.]] And then there's the delightful face of Tyrion, with that long scar and all[[spoiler:, including having his nose pretty much cut off]]. Most of these are [[AdaptationalAttractiveness downplayed]] in the TV show.
* Elli Quinn of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' has her face burned off by plasma-arc fire - "she looked like an onion". Fortunately, she lives in a universe of advanced biotech where the commander of her mercenary company buys her reconstructive surgery which leaves her looking better than she had before, but plasma fire is one of the few things that can truly terrify her.
* Brightheart of ''Literature/WarriorCats'' was savaged by a pack of dogs, who mangled her face to the point that she lost an eye and parts of her skull were showing even after she recovered. She was even called "Lostface" for a while, but fortunately, Firestar renamed her.

* Jasmine from ''Series/{{Angel}};'' once someone is freed from her love spell, she has a mangled, maggot-infested face. [[spoiler: Once the spell is broken for the whole world, her face breaks out in boils and lesions.]]

** In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', it's revealed that the right side of Savitar's face is covered with burns, with his eye discolored and possibly left blind for good measure.
* Richard Harrow in ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' lost his left eye and the left side of his face in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, forcing him to wear a crude-looking half-mask with face-like features.

* An infamous scene where a man caves in another man's face with a fire extinguisher in ''Film/{{Irreversible}}''. [[spoiler:Poor Alex also has her face beaten and mangled so badly that she will never be beautiful again,]]

* An infamous scene where a man caves in another man's face with a fire extinguisher in ''Film/{{Irreversible}}''.