History Main / GhostlyGape

One way or another, the effect can be unsettling; perhaps it's the lack of the emotional cues that those features provide, or the aforementioned loss of humanity, or simply a descent into the UncannyValley.

* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'': This seems to be a running motif for the Cult of Shandor. Not only do the unmasked Cultists sport the look, [[SigilSpam but it also appears as decorations on gates, bookshelves, machine parts, doors,]] [[UpToEleven and ''many, many'' other things.]]

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* Gym Leader Alastair in ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' wears a mask that is meant to invoke this. [[spoiler:It's because his real face is too cute to take seriously for a Ghost-type trainer.]]

* ''Film/TheGrudge'' has the ghost of the little boy, whose mouth is deeply black within.

* Happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' where the central characters take a drop of potion to become ghostly in order to join in a ghost party.

* Happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' where the central characters take a drop of potion to become ghostly in order to join in a [[DeadMansParty ghost party]].

* ''Film/JennifersBody'' has another [[AntagonistTitle eponymous antagonist]] (played by Creator/MeganFox) who does this at one point. In this case, the undead monster is Jennifer Check, an AlphaBitch who becomes [[DemonicPossession possessed]] upon [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]], and she does this right before she's [[LiteralManeater about to feed]].

* ''Film/TheMummy1999'' has a variant with the [[{{Mummy}} eponymous villain Imhotep]] occasionally distending his jaw to an unnatural degree. The maw isn't pitch-black in this case, but Imhotep makes up for it with the desiccated-looking flesh that appears ''around'' his mouth when he does this, even after he rejuvenates his mummified body and starts looking fully alive most of the time.
* ''Film/JennifersBody'' has another [[AntagonistTitle titular antagonist]] (played by Creator/MeganFox) who does this at one point. In this case, the undead monster is Jennifer Check, an AlphaBitch who becomes [[DemonicPossession possessed]] upon [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]], and she does this right before she's [[LiteralManeater about to feed]].

* ''Film/JennifersBody'', like ''The Mummy'' has another [[AntagonistTitle titular antagonist]] (played by Creator/MeganFox) who does this at one point. In this case, the undead monster is Jennifer Check, an AlphaBitch who becomes [[DemonicPossession possessed]] upon [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]], and she does this right before she's [[LiteralManeater about to feed]].

* ''Film/JennifersBody'' has another [[AntagonistTitle titular antagonist]] who does this at one point--specifically, right before she's [[LiteralManeater about to feed]].

* ''Film/TheMummy1999'' has a variant with the [[{{Mummy}} titular villain Imhotep]] occasionally distending his jaw to an unnatural degree. The maw isn't pitch-black in this case, but Imhotep makes up for it with the desiccated-looking flesh that appears ''around'' his mouth when he does this, even after he rejuvenates his mummified body and starts looking fully alive most of the time.

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* ''Film/{{Salvage}}''/''{{Gruesome}}'': Near the end, the (presumed) [[spoiler: spirits of the two teenage victims]] have this appearance; bonus points for standing uncannily still, their faces tilted up.

* In ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'', Ghostface's mask has these.

* The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostface_(Scream) Ghostface]]" mask (as seen in ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'') might be seen as a "classic" Ghostly Gape.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': You can get a special scene if you compose poems that appeal to Natsuki for the first two days of Act Two. When she shows you her poem, it's all in garbled code (which someone actually found out was in base64 and managed to translate) [[labelnote:Translation]] Open Your Third Eye. I can feel the tenderness of their skin though the knife, as if it were an extension of my sense of touch. My body nearly convulses. [[ReluctantPsycho There's something incredibly faint, deep down, that screams to resist this uncontrollable pleasure]], but I can already tell that I'm pushed to the edge. I can't... I can't stop myself.[[/labelnote]] She then proceeds to ask you why you flaked on her, and that it was the only thing she had left to look forward to. The screen turns a dim red as she tells you Yuri is a "sick freak" and you shouldn't associate with her. As she continues to ramble, [[GhostlyGape her eyes and mouth become blacked out]], [[TearsOfBlood blood begins pouring down her face]], and the [[HellIsThatNoise music]] grows distorted. Eventually, she dons a huge SlasherSmile, screaming "PLAY WITH ME!!!" as her neck [[SickeningCrunch snaps]] like VideoGame/TheCrookedMan. Her sprite then [[JumpScare lunges toward the screen]] and you get the "END" card backwards. The game then goes back to normal as if nothing happened.

* All the enemies in {{VideoGame/DLIRIUM}}