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What the Real Actors Behind Movie and Television's Most Deformed Characters Look Like

By Dustin Rowles | Seriously Random Lists | October 29, 2013 | Comments ()

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Ephialtes in 300, played by Andrew Tiernan.

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Big Brain in The Hills Have Eyes played by Desmond Askew.

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Mama Peacock in The X-Files played by Karin Konoval.

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Sloth in Goonies played by the late John Matuszak.

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Kuato in Total Recall played by Marshall Bell.

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John Merrick in The Elephant Man played by John Hurt.

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Roy L.’Rocky’ Dennis in Mask played by Eric Stoltz

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Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs played by Conrad Veidt.

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The Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth played by Doug Jones.

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Pinhead in Hellraiser played by Doug Bradley.

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Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre played by Gunnar Hansen.

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Flukeman in The X-Files played by Darin Morgan

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Pepper in American Horror Story played by Naomi Grossman.

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Zombie Clown in Zombieland played by Derek Graf.

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Bicycle Girl Zombie in The Walking Dead played by Melissa Cowan.

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  • Sherrie Ludwig

    OK Gotta look up Conrad Veidt and The Man Who Laughs. Way creepy makeup, beautifully done for the time. And, yes, Lon Chaney was the master to whom all can aspire.

  • damnitjanet

    WHY THE FUCK DID YOU USE MAMA PEACOCK????? That is the single scariest episode of anything, ever!

  • axis2clusterB

    Wow. Young John Hurt had it GOING ON.

  • e jerry powell

    Matuszak was a big walking box of sexy in his day.

    I have immense respect for prosthetic makeup artists. And actors who have to wear those prostheses, because that much time in the makeup chair before and after a shoot cannot be fun.

  • Jim

    True and I must add "Heelllloooo ZombieClown" - just adorbs.

  • apsutter

    Eric Stoltz?!

  • John W

    Whoa!

  • BWeaves

    Can't believe you left off Lon Chaney, Sr.

  • Uriah_Creep

    You have to remember that Dustin is just a kid (and he keeps walking on my lawn; get off!)

  • foolsage

    The Phantom of the Opera

    http://phantomonabudget.braveh...

    The Hunckback of Notre Dame

    http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/...

    Lon Chaney, Sr. (suave as all hell)

    http://image1.findagrave.com/p...

  • BWeaves

    Thank you! Although that's a photo of his son, Lon Chaney, Jr.

    This is Lon Chaney, Sr.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

  • foolsage

    Whoops! You're quite right. I was looking for a picture of LC Sr. as a younger man to highlight the fact that he was far from monstrous in person.

  • $3647259

    Damn!...

  • chanohack

    Anything Peacock related ought to come with a warning. That picture put me into fight-or-flight mode.

  • Belladonna Took

    Yes, just hearing Johnny Mathis' "Wonderful, Wonderful" brings chills up and down my spine.

  • chanohack

    ME TOO.

  • Wigamer

    I HAD BEEN TRYING TO FORGET THAT, DAMMIT!

  • ViciousTrollop

    Doug Jones also played Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus. I guess I have to go watch it now.

  • Professor Sara

    And he's the body of Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies. And a Gentleman in Buffy's Hush! He is all creepy things.

  • Ben

    He also got to be hte voice for Abe in Hellboy 2. And was also the Fawn in Pans Labrynth as well, even though he can't speak spanish he learnt all his lines phonetically for the role.

  • $3647259

    But, unfortunatelly, they still chose to have his lines dubbed by a Spanish actor (Pablo Adán).

  • foolsage

    To be fair, Doug's accent wasn't convincing. His acting was beyond reproach though.

  • Three_nineteen

    WHY FLUKEMAN THAT IS HORRIBLE I HAVE TO DIG OUT MY X-FILES DVDs NOW

  • PDamian

    John Hurt was quite the cutie, wasn't he?

    And DAMN, Naomi Grossman.

  • Sean

    To be fair, that might be the best photo she ever took. https://www.google.com/search?...
    Although she is very interesting looking.

  • BlackRabbit

    How did they do that to Ms. Grossman? Is it CGI? And is Bicycle Girl Zombie important in some way on the show, out of curiosity?

  • Robert

    Grossman is all prosthetics. The fake teeth are the biggest change: they're so exaggerated that they change the shape of her face. Same with the ear prosthetics.

    It looks like they used an appliance to extend her brow bone that they punched the eyebrows into. I also seem to remember they actually shaved her head to get the hairstyle right.

    The rest is makeup. You can make a nose look wider by adding a thicker highlight on the bridge of the nose. The lips are underpainted to make them look smaller. There is no makeup on the lashline but heavy cream makeup under the eyes to create the dark circles and bags.

  • BlackRabbit

    Excellent, thanks for both informative answers.

  • Legally Insignificant

    If memory serves, Rick comes back to kill the zombie to put it out of the misery in the first episode. It shows Rick's humanity in an inhumane climate.

  • BlackRabbit

    But...it's not human. So not killing a zombie isn't inhumane, is it? Or does it make sense if I watch the episode?

  • inviktus1983 .

    I think you just misunderstood the comment.

  • Madly

    Rick realized she had once been human, as had they all. So before he finished her off, he said, "I'm sorry this happened to you." It was a way of saying, "I'm sorry this happened to everyone, to the planet, to humanity, but to each individual, too."
    He gave her dignity, in her last moments.

  • Ben

    It was human, and at that point in the show it's the first eppisode and he doesn't know what's going on yet or what the zombies actually are.

  • Hazel Dean

    We also learn her back story in the Walking Dead webisodes you can watch here: http://www.amctv.com/the-walki...

  • BWeaves

    I was thinking, "DAMN, John Hurt!"

  • zyzzyva

    Am I a horrible person for expecting this post to be photos of reality stars, pre- and post-plastic surgery?

  • What does Charlie Sheen actually look like when he takes off that grotesque disguise?

  • Joe Grunenwald
  • lowercase_ryan

    I wish Pepper was a witch.

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