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12	* All over the place in ''Film/Alien2OnEarth'' thanks to the rock creatures, with a young girl having her face torn off and several of the spelunkers' faces being ripped apart [[ChestBurster as the creatures' larval forms exit their bodies]].
13	* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Thanos suffering from a horrible burn scar on the left of his face, including the loss of an entire ear. This 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]].
14	* ''Film/BatmanForever'': How Harvey Dent becomes ComicBook/TwoFace. Unlike ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' iteration, the facial scarring was the result of an acid attack by underworld kingpin Boss Maroni.
15	** ''Film/{{Batman\|1989}}'': This is also how Jack Napier became ComicBook/TheJoker; 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.
16	* ''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...
17	* ''Film/{{Bethany}}'':
18	** In one scene, when Claire looks at herself in the bathroom mirror, she sees the left side of her face is drooping. She starts pulling on it, causing a cut to appear on her forehead. She then pulls the drooping part off, revealing a while surface covered in cracks underneath. Thankfully, it's a hallucination.
19	** [[spoiler:When Claire and Bethany were kids, their mom stitched a mask to Bethany's face]]
20	* ''Film/BillyClub2013'': Billy kills Kyle by beating him in the face with the [[SavageSpikedWeapons spiky end]] of his [[BatterUp baseball bat]]. Each hit leaves a bunch of scratch marks all over Kyle's face.
21	* ''Film/{{Bite}}'': When Jared’s mother visits Casey to angrily confront the latter of her infidelity towards Jared, [[spoiler:Casey attacks her and [[AcidAttack spits acid]] on her face, melting it and resulting in her death.]]
22	* ''Film/BloodBags'': The killer's face is extremely swollen, and missing its lips.
23	* ''Film/BloodPi'': Amber kills a cheerleader with a knife InTheBack, and then cuts off part of her face to make into a DominoMask.
24	* ''Film/BloodWidow'': The killer catches [[spoiler:Hugh]] in the face with her cat-o-nine-tails, and then yanks back hard, ripping chunks off [[spoiler:his]] face.
25	* ''Film/{{Bloodshot\|2020}}'': 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.
26	* ''Film/TheBurning'': Cropsy has a hideously scarred face as a result of a DeadlyPrank that [[ManOnFire set him on fire]], and is eventually finished off with an axe to the face.
27	* ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'': Sasha's face get melted by some magic mud, [[TheBlank leaving her faceless]], [[FaceStealer giving rise to a mud monster with a deformed version of her face]].
28	* ''Film/CainHill'': While looking about the titular ABandonedHospital, one of the crew finds a dead body with lots of lacerations on its face.
29	* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': When the evil Red Skull peels off his mask to reveal the facial deformity that gave him his name, sidekick Bucky mutters to Cap, "You don't have one of those, do you?"
30	* ''Film/Carrie2013'': [[spoiler:AlphaBitch Chris Hargensen gets thrown through a windshield when Carrie crashes her car, leaving her face torn up with huge shards of glass sticking out.]]
31	* ''Film/TheCasino'' is an excruciatingly violent Creator/ShawBrothers action film, whose highlights include a henchman whose face gets stomped into a red pulp. There is a close-up on his bloodied face, and it's NOT pretty. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kRBTLr-TZ68/SYPqj6D_nqI/AAAAAAAAFtw/XNDtbgEE5Bs/s1600-h/casino19 See for yourself]]. ('''WARNING: GRAPHIC GORE ALERT''')
32	* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': At [[spoiler:the cast party]], Elisa sees a boy singing a song to the accordion. The right half of the boy's face looks droopy and folded.
33	* ''Film/{{Clawed}}'': Expect to see a lot of deformed, mutilated faces in this movie. Sheriff Reynolds has claw marks on his face in the FramingDevice.
34	* ''Film/ClownKill'': The janitor's face has a large red area that looks very wrinkly. It appears to be a healed wound.
35	* ''Film/{{Clownface}}'': After stabbing his second on-screen victim, Clownface cuts part of his face off [[spoiler:to feed it to Zoe]].
36	* ''Film/Creepshow2'': The hitchhiker from the last segment get run over and has his face smashed by a car against a tree several times, causing his face to be nothing more than a bloody mulch with his eyeballs dangling from their sockets
37	* ''Film/TheDark2018'': Alex's eyes are both covered by scar tissue, and Mina's face has many gruesome gaping wounds still on it from her rapist bashing her with a snowglobe when she resisted him.
38	* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
39	** How Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face. This is particularly gruesome, as you can see the guy's jawbones.
40	** 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.]]
41	* Similarly, how Creator/LiamNeeson's character becomes the title character in ''Film/{{Darkman}}''. Durant's thugs burn his hands and dip his face in acid before rigging his lab to explode.
42	* Wade Wilson after he gains his powers in ''Film/{{Deadpool\|2016}}'', 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, 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 point.
43	* ''Film/DeepRising'' has a scene where one of the [[RuthlessModernPirates pirates]] is attacked and swallowed by a monster. His comrades manage to shoot him out, only to find to their horror that he'd been partially digested by the [[HollywoodAcid acidic]] innards of the creature. Half of his face and even part of his skull get eaten away, [[BodyHorror along with most of his body]].
44	* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' has a brutal one when [[spoiler:Cage blows up an Alpha with a Claymore mine, resulting in its [[HollywoodAcid blood to melt his face off in a horrifying fashion,]] but also giving him the time loop ability.]]
45	* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'': [[spoiler:Krueger's]] face gets blown off by a grenade during the second half. [[spoiler:However, that doesn't kill him.]]
46	%%zce* Christiane's faceless state in ''Film/EyesWithoutAFace''.
47	* In ''Film/{{Faceless}}'', Ingrid's face is hideously disfigured when one of her brother's former patients throws acid in it. Her brother then surgically mutilates several over beautiful women in attempt to find a cure for her.
48	* 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. Troy wakes 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 Troy walking around without his face on, prior to making Dr. Walsh give him Archer's original face.
49	* ''Film/FairyTaleATrueStory'': The soldier whom Frances befriends on the train suffered extreme wounds to his face, which for most people must be offputting. She's completely undeterred though, and he thanks her later by chasing off a nasty reporter who'd been harassing her, coming to hear that fairies are real.
50	* ''Film/FightClub'': The Narrator beats the shit out of Angel Face's... um, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment face]] so brutally it's barely recognizably human, and most of his teeth are gone.
51	* ''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 bullying AlphaBitch tendencies. Bridget is seen in the BookEnds as an outcast, wearing a hoodie to hide her disfigured face.]]
52	* Seth Brundle's face falls off in a slimy mess near the end of ''Film/{{The Fly\|1986}}''.
53	* ''Film/TheFlyII'': A security guard gets a faceful of acid vomit from Brundle's son. The worst part is, he's still breathing afterward.
54	* Over time, the mute colossus Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' has taken some serious facial damage. Notably, he took a boat motor to the face in [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives part six]]. It's little wonder he's seldom seen without his trademark hockey mask.
55	* During the third chapter of ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'', a creature attacks the characters [[spoiler:and attempts to facially merge with Gore. His nose is briefly duplicated as a result. Moments later, Diane hallucinates from the antidote Gore gave her. When she confronts him about it, his face is disfigured because of the side effects.]]
56	* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': A couple of examples.
57	** Rocco The Clown rips the mask, and face, off a park employee.
58	** When Morgan and Gerardo [[spoiler:kill Animal, they do so by pressing his face against a rotating hot dog grill]].
59	* In ''Film/TheGambler'', [[spoiler: Axel picks a fight with a pimp and the hooker he’s with slashes his face to defend said pimp. Axel actually looks happy about this once he escapes.]]
60	* ''Film/GhostLab2021'': When [[spoiler:Dr Gla's ghost]] attacks [[spoiler:Dr. Wee]] in the morgue, the latter throws a bottle of mortuary chemical's in the former's face, causing his cheek to fall off.
61	* 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]].
62	* ''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 throughout, until near the end when he takes it off to frighten some natives with his hideous face.
63	* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': Rocket's final flashback shows that when he escaped from [[BigBad the High Evolutionary's]] lab, he first took [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge revenge]] on his creator by jumping on top of him and mauling his face. [[spoiler: When the High Evolutionary is defeated during the FinalBattle, it's revealed that his seemingly healed face is [[LatexPerfection a mask]], underneath which his real face is shown to have been ''StrippedToTheBone'' by the damage Rocket did all those years ago.]]
64	* At the end of ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'', Michael Myers is set on fire and presumed dead. Cue the horrific morgue scene that reveals his mask had ''melted into his face''...[[spoiler:''and he was still alive''.]]
65	%%* Creator/GaryOldman's character in ''Film/{{Hannibal}}''. [[http://www.killerfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/gary-oldman-hannibal-300x199.jpg Here.]]
66	* ''Film/Hayride2'': Ol' Pitchfork kills one of the hospital orderlies by pressing his head against a scalding hot pipe. In his struggle to escape, the orderly tries to get his face off the pipe, showing that his flesh has melted against the pipe's surface.
67	* ''Film/{{Head}}'': Mild example - this is when Music/TheMonkees 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 '60s era Mike Tyson). Intercut into this we see Jones joshing with Liston beforehand, saying "You won't hurt the face, will you? Million-dollar face, this is!"
68	* ''Film/HouseOfTheWitch'': Dax gets a wound on his back early on. As time goes on, the wound somehow turns into a large collection of pustules covering half his face.
69	* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': [[spoiler:The beautiful tribute, Glimmer, is horribly disfigured after she is stung by trackerjackers. Her face is particularly horrifying in the movie version.]]
70	* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' has this in the climax of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. Safe to say, it was a really stupid move for [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis]] to open TheArkOfTheCovenant. While the soldiers are disposed of very quickly by [[ShockAndAwe burning lightning]], the main villains are [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed brutally via head-related injuries]]. [[TheStoic Herman Dietrich]] has his head shriveled and crushed inwards, [[TortureTechnician Arnold Toht]] [[ImMelting has his face melted off his skull]], and [[TheHeavy René Belloq]] is swathed in holy flame before [[YourHeadAsplode his head literally explodes into a gory mess.]]
71	* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' sees the titular Basterds acts of violence against the Nazis involve carving a swastika into the heads of any who survive.
72	* ''Film/IntoTheGrizzlyMaze'': After being attacked by the bear, Douglass shows up with half of his face ripped open and flapping loose.
73	* ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'': An infamous scene where a man caves in another man's face with a fire extinguisher. [[spoiler:Poor Alex also has her face beaten and mangled so badly that she will never be beautiful again.]]
74	* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': Jennifer gets revenge on one of her rapists via putting lye in the tub of water she has him suspended over. His face falls in when he can't hold the position anymore and his face ''burns and melts off including his tongue''.
75	* ''Film/JonahHex2010'': The film version depicted a more {{pragmatic\|Adaptation}} version of this, as (which [[WebVideo/TheBookWasBetter Krimson Rogue]] rightfully pointed out), no one's willing to lose their right cheek for a part and the movie didn't have the budget to do a motion capture effect and opted to use make-up.
76	* In ''Film/TheLastRitesOfRansomPride'', Maria La Morena is a beautiful woman with hideous burn scars across one side of her face.
77	* ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'': Håkan [[spoiler:pours acid over his own face as an attempt to become unidentifiable to the police. He lives, and the effect is ''horrifying''.]]
78	%%* Mel Gibson in ''Film/TheManWithoutAFace''.
79	* ''Film/{{Mirrors\|2008}}'' features a fatal and extremely gruesome jaw dislocation scene.
80	* ''Film/TheMonsterMaker'': Lawrence's face becomes hideously distorted by the acromegaly Dr. Markoff infects him with. Acromegaly causes distortion of the extremities (hands, feet, and face), and the version created by Markoff causes to Lawrence to advance in a week to a state that would normally take two years of the disease's progression. Glimpsing her father's face in a darkened room causes Patricia to scream and faint.
81	* ''Film/MurderParty'': [[spoiler:Macon 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.]]
82	* In ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue1971'', Marot's face was hideously disfigured by acid, and that is now how he murders all of his victims.
83	* ''Film/MyLittleSister'': Two examples.
84	** In the prologue, the Little Sister cuts a guy's face off in his torture room.
85	** [[spoiler: In TheReveal, after Igor's father splashes acid on his face from his daughter's prank, the camera cuts to his face as he peels flesh off it.]]
86	* ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum''[=/=]''Film/HouseOfWax1953'' The cloaked and horribly disfigured killer, [[spoiler: revealed to be 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]].]]
87	** Done again by Creator/VincentPrice in his ''[[Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes Dr. Phibes]]'' film series, almost certainly as an homage.
88	** ''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]].
89	* Freddy Krueger, the iconic dream demon from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', has extensive burns all over his body, the result of the parents of Elm Street taking the law into their own hands during his days as the Springwood Slasher.
90	* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonight'': The killer twins' bodies have boils covering their bodies. [[spoiler:This is likely the result of the twins being host to a black alien slime that came out of a space rock they hid under their bed]]. The highest concentration of boils seems to be on the twins' faces, and feet.
91	** In [[Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII the sequel]], when [[spoiler:Zosia kills Wanessa]], one of the first things [[spoiler:she]] does is tear all the skin off [[spoiler:her]] face.
92	* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': A chimp goes crazy at a filming of a sitcom. One of the survivors of the attack, Mary Jo Elliot, had her face mauled by the chimp.
93	* Another Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/OathOfDeath'', sees Jin Liang, the main character, being betrayed by his older sworn brother and becoming a wanted man. In order to evade authorities, he's forced to put a burning hot sword upon the left side of his face, and the aftermath isn't pretty at all.
94	* ''Film/OneNightInOctober'': At the climax of Michelle's story, when she has Jason in her garage, she reveals to him that she sliced all the skin off Hewitt's face.
95	* ''Film/TheOrphanage'': The fake social worker 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.
96	** Ironically, her face ended up 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]].
97	* One of the most well-known images of ''Film/{{Overlord\|2018}}'' is its [[BigBad main antagonist]] 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.
98	* ''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.
99	* 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]].
100	* ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', though the extent of Phantom's facial scarring has [[ProgressivelyPrettier noticeably decreased with each adaptation]].
101	** Creator/LonChaney's skull-like face in [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 the 1925 silent film]], which close to the description given in [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the original novel]].
102	** The [[Film/PhantomOfTheOpera1943 1943 version]] introduced the idea of the Phantom having not been born disfigured. In that adaptation, he was a normal-looking man until he was [[HollywoodAcid scarred by acid]].
103	** In the tradition of the 1943 version, the title character of [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1962 the 1962]] Film/HammerHorror adaption was an ordinary man disfigured by acid. However, they take his facial injuries even further with one of [[EyeScream his eyes having dissolved]] and his flesh slowly rotting and turning grey.
104	** The Phantom in [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1989 the 1989 version]] has no skin around his head at all, and his "mask" is a patchwork of skin that he has taken from his victims.
105	* After the eponymous ''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]].
106	* ''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.
107	* ''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.
108	* ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'': One mook who attacks Rama gets the side of his face pressed against a hot stove, leaving the mook severely burned.
109	* ''Film/{{REC}}'': Alex has extremely nasty and gruesome bite wounds on his face after encountering Mrs. Izquierdo.
110	* ''Film/RedMist'': [[AssholeVictim Sean]] suffers arguably the most horrific death - 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.
111	* ''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]].
112	* In the American adaptation of ''Literature/TheRing'', [[spoiler:Noah]]'s face is horribly distorted and shown in close-up after Samara killed him.
113	* In the ending of ''Film/RolliAmazingTales'', [[spoiler:the [[SinisterMinister High Priest]] is forced to enter the Rölli Forest from the Trashers' {{collapsing lair}}. His face starts deteriorating because [[WeakenedByTheLight the light and purity of the forest are detrimental to evil creatures such as him]]. He claims that this will be remedied once the Trashers are revigorated and the forest destroyed through pollution, but he's killed before this claim can be put to the test]].
114	* ''Film/{{Rush\|2013}}'': Niki Lauda's horrific burns 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.
115	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
116	** The Reverse Bear Trap does this to any victim who doesn't break out of it, [[{{Jawbreaker}} ripping their lower jaw off completely]]. Although it's seen repeatedly on various characters, it's not until ''Film/Saw3D'' when the actual result of someone dying with it on is shown.
117	** In ''Film/SawIV'', Cecil's face ends up being caked in blood after going through the Knife Chair, a trap that requires its victim to press their face against a contraption of multiple knifes.
118	* ''Film/{{Se7en}}'': The ''Pride'' victim is 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.
119	* ''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]]''.
120	* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': The villain 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''.
121	* ''Franchise/StarWars''
122	** Darth Vader. Yeah, you probably don't want to see what's behind that mask...
123	** His master [[BigBad Palpatine]] had the [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse face of a kindly old man]] during his time as Chancellor. Then his own [[ShockAndAwe Force Lightning]] quite literally [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blew up in his face]], leaving him permanently disfigured. His eyes also permanently turned [[SupernaturalGoldEyes glowing yellow]], making them look much bigger in contrast with the rest of his face and further contributing to the creepiness. It's only somewhat mitigated by the [[InTheHood hooded robes]] he wore from that day forward.
124	** 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, [[spoiler:Rey slashes him across the face with a lightsaber, but even that scar isn't at all disfiguring]].
125	* ''Film/StrangeNature'': Joe and Michelle have some pretty deformed ones, though they looked like that before they came to town. Joe has small lumps and is missing his upper lip, while Michelle has several large lumps on her forehead.
126	** There's also Nikki's puppies, which has a unilateral cleft lip.
127	** Jodie's newborn daughter, Danielle, has a cleft lip as well as just a smooth surface with nostrils in place of a nose. [[BodyHorror Though that's just one of her many deformities.]]
128	** Finally, the two-faced wolf.
129	* Creator/LeslieNielsen's character in ''Film/SurfNinjas'' has half of his face squished by an elephant, forcing him to wear a half-mask a la ''The Phantom of the Opera''.
130	* ''Film/Suspiria2018'': [[spoiler:The viewer is treated 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]].
131	* 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.
132	* Film/{{Terrifier}}: Art the Clown does this to multiple victims. Notably, [[spoiler: this happens to the moves FinalGirl Victoria after Art eats her face.]]
133	* [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} The Terminator]], in all of the movies, takes plenty of face damage to show off the cybernetics underneath.
134	* ''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.
135	* ''Film/ThereWasALittleGirl'':
136	** Julia's EvilTwin Mary suffers from a skin disease that has left her face looking hideously decayed and falling apart at the seams.
137	** In the opening sequence, a younger Mary is shown bashing her sister's face to a bloody pulp as the latter sits in a rocking chair.
138	* ''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.
139	* The climax of ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' has two examples in quick succession: [[spoiler:First off, Optimus Prime breaks Megatron's arm and forces him to ''[[ArmCannon shoot]] half his own face off''. He then proceeds to go after the Fallen, delivers his [[MemeticMutation famous one-liner]], and doesn't wait for the Fallen to ''give'' it to him. (Contrary to popular belief, Fallen is actually killed by being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice punched through the chest]] and getting his [[OurSoulsAreDifferent spark]] ripped out.)]]
140	** Earlier, 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.
141	* ''Film/TronLegacy'': One of the prisoners on the Recognizer has half of his face derezzed. When that particular program looks at Sam Flynn, he just growls.
142	* SoBadItsGood B-movie ''Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness'': Mike Strauber is a man who, among other things, cuts a chunk of his own face off when dared to do so.
143	* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988'': When [[BigBad Roscoe]] kills [[spoiler:who he thinks is Ms. Hayes]], he presses her face against the stove top, leaving a large red burn mark covering half of it.
144	* ''Film/TheVindicator'': The [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident "accident"]] that kills Carl has him taking an explosion to the face, and the only skin that remains intact is that around his eyes, and that's only because he was wearing safety goggles -- everything else can only be described as "ghoulish".
145	* ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'':
146	** Victoria is horribly disfigured by acid in a [[FreakLabAccident lab accident]] that melts the skin off her [[BeautyToBeast once beautiful but now grotesque face]].
147	** Neville has [[YouDirtyRat rats]] gnaw on his face.
148	** Molly uses her [[ManBitesMan teeth to rip chunks off another girl's face]]
149	** Carol's face turns into a skeleton after [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishing to be older]].
150	** A girl's face is burnt to a crisp after [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishing to be hot]].
151	* ''Film/TheWholeTruth2021'': The StringyHairedGhostGirl next door has a swollen right cheek. [[spoiler:Pinya had it in life too.]]
152	* ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'': The Djinn 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.
153	* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'' 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, 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.

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