scarred faces: facial scars in recent movies

Facial scars in recent movies

The characters depicted here have each suffered a violent and traumatic facial injury: gunshot; knife slash; car accident; or animal attack. Burn scars, including the results of acid attacks, are treated separately.

These roles have a lot of cinematic history behind them are: the disfigured victim; the scarred and vengeful villainess; and the heroine who is almost miraculously transformed into a beauty (often with disturbing side-effects).

And, of course, the more beautiful the actress behind the makeup the more shocking the transformation.

The movies

The Killer Inside Me (2010): An apparently charming and mild-mannered sheriff’s deputy in an Oklahoma oil town in the late 1940s is in fact a vicous pyschopath. His true nature his revealed through his brutal relationship with prostitute Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba) who he almost beats to death. Frieda Valenzuela was the key makeup artist; Tony Gardner (Alterian) was the prosthetics designer; Richard Redlefsen was Jessica Alba’s prosthetic makeup artist.

w Delta z (2007): A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes. Jean Lerner (Selma Blair) is both a suspect and the victim of an earlier brutal attack. Tanya Lodge was makeup department head; Paul Hyett was special makeup effects designer; Clare Ramsey was prosthetic makeup artist; Kristyan Mallett was prosthetics technician.

Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister (2002): Trudie Styler was the scarred fortune teller. Anne Moralis was key hair and makeup artist.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997): In the episode ‘The Wish’ a harder scarred Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) turns up in an alternative reality caused by Cordelia’s wish. Harlow FX created the makeup effects with Todd McIntosh as makeup supervisor.

Der Preis Der Schönheit (2000): Frauke Nimrath (Claudine Wilde) got scarred. Peter Bourand Ulla Röling were the makeup artists.

Unforgiven (1992): A cycle of vengeance is started when whore Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Levine credited as Anna Thomson) is attacked by a cowboy – dissatisfied with the justice meted out by the local sheriff the prostitutes pool their money to hire retired gunslinger William Munny to go after the assailants. This movie deservedly won four Oscars including both Best Picture and Best Director for Clint Eastwood. Mike Hancock was head makeup artist; Stan Edmonds was key makeup artist.