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* ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' has this as Godzilla's default expression in order to make him more menacing. [[Narm That was the idea]], anyway.
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* ''Film/TheCrow'': Post-mortem Eric Draven is quite fond of [[http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/938/938301/the-crow-remake-20081215041917272.jpg this.]]
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* John Murdoch does this in ''Film/DarkCity'' after [[spoiler:getting [[ExpositionBeam a lifetime's worth of training]] in [[PsychicPowers Tuning]] injected into his brain]]. Creator/RogerEbert even points out the Kubrick connection in his audio commentary on the DVD.
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* John Murdoch does this in ''Film/DarkCity'' ''Film/DarkCity1998'' after [[spoiler:getting [[ExpositionBeam a lifetime's worth of training]] in [[PsychicPowers Tuning]] injected into his brain]]. Creator/RogerEbert even points out the Kubrick connection in his audio commentary on the DVD.
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* Creator/TommyWiseau does this in the poster for ''Film/TheRoom'' ([[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TheRoomMovie.jpg link]]).
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* ''Film/BladeRunner'': both Pris and Roy do this, the latter during his “Tears In Rain” speech, which is ironic because [[spoiler:he has just saved the protagonist and is about to die.]]
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* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': When Ernest is trapped on the roof and hanged on a rainwater pipe by his suspenders, Helen and Madeline encourage Ernest to drink the potion to survive an impending fall. However, realizing that they only need him for their own selfish reasons, Ernest refuses and drops it to the ground. Then, Helen and Madeleine give him this stare right before he eventually fall. [[spoiler:He survives and finally earns his HappilyEverAfter]].
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* ''Film/TheExorcismOfEmilyRose'': In the last performance of exorcism, the possessed-Emily gives this stare toward Father Moore before running to the barn.
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* In ''Film/TheFrolic'', an adaptation of Creator/ThomasLigotti's short story, John Doe seems to be giving one every time he looks up from his drawing.
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** A subversion in the [[Film/TheTerminator first movie]]. When Sarah spots Kyle Reese (whom she mistakenly assumes is the killer who's after her) in Tech Noir, he happens to be looking downwards, then he raises his eyes and looks at her; this trope gives him an air of menace shortly before TheReveal that he's actually the good guy.
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** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': [[InTheBlood Like father, like daughter.]] [[Comicbook/{{X 23}} Laura]] delivers a positively ''withering'' one to Pierce at Logan's hideout, when she walks towards him and [[DecapitationPresentation tosses the head of one of his Reavers]] at his feet. The fact it's being delivered with aplomb by an ''eleven-year-old girl'' just makes it even ''more'' chilling.
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** Zod's actor, Creator/MichaelShannon, is actually well-known for doing good Kubrick stares — appropriately so, considering he's normally typecast as crazed and/or violent types.
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* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'' boasts a heroic example. During her time in the "Jardin d'Orient" brothel, SexSlave Tanya shoots one of these [[BreakingTheFourthWall aiming right at the camera]]. Click [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/do_not_mess_with_this_woman.jpg here]] to reveal why you shouldn't KickTheDog.
* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'' boasts a heroic example. During her time in the "Jardin d'Orient" brothel, SexSlave Tanya shoots one of these [[BreakingTheFourthWall aiming right at the camera]]. Click [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/do_not_mess_with_this_woman.jpg here]] to reveal why you shouldn't KickTheDog.
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* Loki does this throughout ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. It's especially terrifying in his first appearance (when combined with his SlasherSmile which takes it UpToEleven); justified on that occasion as he's rising his head up from a crouching position.
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* Throughout the first half of ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', Rameses has this look whenever Moses proves how much more awesome he is at pretty much everything.
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* In ''Film/JohnWick'' Creator/KeanuReeves pulls off a rather [[https://classic.imgix.net/movies/headers/John_Wick.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1440&h=602&fit=crop&v=20220119 frightening one]] to make clear that [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge he's about to go out for blood]].
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* ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'', ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', ''Film/BarryLyndon'', ''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', and ''Film/EyesWideShut'' are the TropeNamers: all of them are Kubrick films where someone wears this expression. According to stories, the stare was often worn by Kubrick himself when he wanted to look gruff and intimidating on set.
** Ironically given Creator/StephenKing's well-publicized disdain for Kubrick's adaptation, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(miniseries)#/media/File:The_Shining_(1997_mini-series_poster).jpg cover art]] for the King-written and -approved TV miniseries version of ''The Shining'' also features Steven Weber giving his best Kubrick stare.
* ''Film/AmericanBeauty'': by Jane in the very first scene.
* Sir John Gielgud gives one of these in the movie ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'', although it looks more [[http://www.nndb.com/people/589/000033490/gielgud-color.jpg disapproving]] than scary.
* Loki does this throughout ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. It's especially terrifying in his first appearance (when combined with his SlasherSmile which takes it UpToEleven); justified on that occasion as he's rising his head up from a crouching position.
* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'': Elliot gives one to the Devil when she says that God exists and is a man, then quips that most men think they're divine, he's just actually right. He also gives another to his not-so-nice co-workers when they mock him near the end.
* ''Film/BlackNarcissus'': Sister Ruth delivers a super-scary version of this to Sister Clodagh as a signal that her SanitySlippage has reached a tipping point.
* Some freak kid does it in ''Film/TheBox''.
* ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' might be the [[TropeMakers first example]] of [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angryman1.JPG this trope]] in film. The actor doing the stare is Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who also popularized MilkingTheGiantCow in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
* ''Film/{{Capote}}'': Perry Smith does one later in the film when he confronts Truman about his book's title.
* [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9y9xyuCYX1qgnixfo2_400.jpg Edmund Pevensie]] in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', when he is tempted by evil again.
* ''Film/TheCrow'': Post-mortem Eric Draven is quite fond of [[http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/938/938301/the-crow-remake-20081215041917272.jpg this.]]
* John Murdoch does this in ''Film/DarkCity'' after [[spoiler:getting [[ExpositionBeam a lifetime's worth of training]] in [[PsychicPowers Tuning]] injected into his brain]]. Creator/RogerEbert even points out the Kubrick connection in his audio commentary on the DVD.
* ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', as his posture is often slightly hunched over, is practically ''built'' to give these stares. [[spoiler:Perhaps this is most noticeable when he's sitting in the holding cell, even more so when he joins in the clapping for Gordon's promotion.]] As it happened, Creator/GaryOldman told Creator/HeathLedger after this was shot that his performance was reminding him of Alex in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''; Ledger admitted he had just been watching that film in his trailer.
* Virtually every shot of Creator/JakeGyllenhaal in ''Film/DonnieDarko'' is a Kubrick Stare. Apparently, it runs in the family; Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal does an oddly sexy Kubrick stare in a few of her movies, particularly ''Film/{{Secretary}}''.
* ''Film/{{Girlfight}}'': Diana stares at the camera in this fashion during the first shot of her.
* Connor Macleod gives one of these in ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' (the first film) when The Kurgan reveals he raped Heather. (She never told Connor, likely fearing he'd go after The Kurgan and get killed.)
* Thorin Oakenshield is much given to these in ''Film/TheHobbit''. When you're a dwarf you don't have much choice but to glare ''up'' at people.
** King Thranduil pulls off some really chilling ones as well, especially fighting orcs. Lord Elrond and Lady Galadriel can really pull off just plain terrifying ones.
* Stane's expression in the poster for ''Film/IronMan1''. Kind of odd -- Obie's actually a [[AffablyEvil pretty]] [[BlatantLies nice]] [[TheStarscream guy]].
* ''[[Film/IT2017 IT]]'': Pennywise does this in all the promotional images for the film. His actor, Creator/BillSkarsgard, also pulled a similar face on a few talk shows to show his natural and eerie knack for the expression.
* Try to find a photo of Creator/JamesCagney where he's [[TypeCasting in character]] and ''isn't'' doing this. (No surprise that he was one of Kubrick's favorite actors). See Gary Oldman's Tonight Show appearance below for a description of the Cagney version of the Kubrick Stare.
* In the 2000 adaptation of ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'', King Herod pulls this look toward Jesus just before he ''really'' starts going: "At least, that's what you've saaaaaid-" [FascinatingEyebrow] "''-dah.''"
* The 1953 film adaptation of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' has Marc Anthony doing this a lot -- the actor was Creator/MarlonBrando! Underscoring that this movie made Marc Anthony a rather sinister figure.
* ''Film/KillBill Volume 1'': Gogo Yubari, O-Ren Ishii's chief bodyguard, gives Kubrick stares in most of her scenes, including her flail-wielding confrontation with The Bride.
* ''Film/LicenceToKill'': Dario, Sanchez's [[TheDragon right-hand man]], makes this look several times, accompanied with a SlasherSmile.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Frodo does one in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' for just an instant, when he [[spoiler:claims the Ring for himself in Mount Doom]].
** Merry gets the effect in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' when he's yelling at the Ents for refusing to fight, though it's actually incidental due to him having to look up at them.
** Gandalf also has this effect when [[StaringDownCthulhu he faces the Balrog]], again it's incidental due to The Balrog being 35 feet taller than him.
** In the introduction of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' Isildur gives this look to Elrond when he refuses to destroy the Ring.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': General Zod does one near the end when [[spoiler: his plan to {{Terraform}} Earth is foiled and his crew are banished to the Phantom Zone]].
** Zod's actor, Creator/MichaelShannon, is actually well-known for doing good Kubrick stares — appropriately so, considering he's normally typecast as crazed and/or violent types.
* Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein gives this stare to John Cleese as Professor Waldman in ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein''. The intention is not so much to intimidate as to impress Waldman with Frankenstein's knowledge and dead seriousness about resurrecting the dead.
* Creator/KeanuReeves gives us one after blowing up Smith in ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* Creator/NaomiWatts, of all people, gives a chilling glare near the end of the film ''Film/MulhollandDrive''.
* Ms. Appleyard at the end of in ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'' -- an especially disturbing example.
* Norman Stansfield is fond of giving these in ''Film/TheProfessional''.
* ''Film/TheProphecy'': Quite unsettling to see on a little girl like Mary.
* Norman Bates at the end of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', made in 1960.
* The Defence Secretary gives such a stare to M when he levels various complaints against her and her agency in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''.
* Creator/TommyWiseau does this in the poster for ''Film/TheRoom'' ([[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TheRoomMovie.jpg link]]).
* James Van Der Beek gives this look in an early scene from ''Film/TheRulesOfAttraction'', in the scene featuring Creator/KateBosworth.
* The default expression of the MadScientist villain in ''Film/{{Runaway}}''. Of course, it only helps when your name is Luther and you're played by [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]].
* Hannibal Lecter gives a cold, emotionless one in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' with an emphasis on creepy because he doesn't blink.
* Kevin, the sociopathic cannibal (no, not the one above) from ''Film/SinCity'', gives an indescribably creepy Kubrick Stare right before he ambushes the protagonist [[AntiHero Marv]]. Marv does one right back upon overhearing the cannibal's name from his prison. "See you later, Kevin."
* Barbara does this in ''Film/StarkLove'' when Rob comes to rescue her from brutish Jason, only for Jason to kick Rob's ass. Barbara then rescues herself.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': One of the movie posters has Creator/ChrisPine in [[http://img.trekmovie.com/images/st09/Kirk_CharacterPoster_72DPI.jpg this pose]], which unfortunately makes Captain Kirk look like a dead ringer for Series/{{Dexter}}.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Harrison tilts his head down and to the right, and then angrily stares up at Kirk while delivering his BreakingSpeech about the failures of Starfleet.
* ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith]]'': When Anakin Skywalker turns evil and becomes Darth Vader, he gets yellow eyes that he always displays by using one of these.
* Throughout the first half of ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', Rameses has this look whenever Moses proves how much more awesome he is at pretty much everything.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series:
** Sarah Connor in the hospital in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
** Robert Patrick's T-1000, throughout the entirety of the second movie, is a prime example.
** Terminator's face in the opening credits, even though it lacks eyebrows, is permanently grinning a skull grin.
* ''Film/TheThing1982''. Used as a RedHerring [[spoiler:when Windows is receiving the blood test; he's shown staring at Mac in this fashion as if he's about to attack him, but as soon as the test proves negative Windows visibly relaxes.]]
* Used in ''Film/TheThirdMan'', making this trope OlderThanTheyThink.
* Evil from ''Film/TimeBandits'' does this a few times while apparently trying to cast a spell. He lifts his arms up and his face glows red, but he's interrupted before he can finish what he's doing. In the end, [[spoiler:it turns him into a crumbling statue, and the Supreme Being appears to clean things up]].
* Played for sexy by Creator/LaurenBacall in ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'', reportedly because Bacall was nervous about working with [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogey]] and was trying to keep from shaking. Considering that they later got married, that's adorable.
* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', the villain manages to do this ''off camera''. That is to say, he stares villainously into the camera for his driver's license photo. He ensured that every cop who pulled him over would realize he was evil. He also pulled it off several times on camera, but the driver's license deserves special mention.
* Another Kevin, Kevin Katchadourian from ''Film/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin'' usually gives one of these before a BreakThemByTalking.
* ''Film/WhenDarknessFalls'': Leyla's mother does this after Leyla realizes that [[spoiler:her mother staged her sister's death, not her father which she thought first.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Creator/HughJackman in the films deliberately adopted a subtle version of this, but he came upon the idea independently. In an interview he said something about always trying to keep his head just slightly bowed, to imitate the way a wolf looks at you over its nose.
** Magneto in his plastic prison in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.
** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': [[InTheBlood Like father, like daughter.]] [[Comicbook/{{X 23}} Laura]] delivers a positively ''withering'' one to Pierce at Logan's hideout, when she walks towards him and [[DecapitationPresentation tosses the head of one of his Reavers]] at his feet. The fact it's being delivered with aplomb by an ''eleven-year-old girl'' just makes it even ''more'' chilling.
** Ironically given Creator/StephenKing's well-publicized disdain for Kubrick's adaptation, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(miniseries)#/media/File:The_Shining_(1997_mini-series_poster).jpg cover art]] for the King-written and -approved TV miniseries version of ''The Shining'' also features Steven Weber giving his best Kubrick stare.
* ''Film/AmericanBeauty'': by Jane in the very first scene.
* Sir John Gielgud gives one of these in the movie ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'', although it looks more [[http://www.nndb.com/people/589/000033490/gielgud-color.jpg disapproving]] than scary.
* Loki does this throughout ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. It's especially terrifying in his first appearance (when combined with his SlasherSmile which takes it UpToEleven); justified on that occasion as he's rising his head up from a crouching position.
* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'': Elliot gives one to the Devil when she says that God exists and is a man, then quips that most men think they're divine, he's just actually right. He also gives another to his not-so-nice co-workers when they mock him near the end.
* ''Film/BlackNarcissus'': Sister Ruth delivers a super-scary version of this to Sister Clodagh as a signal that her SanitySlippage has reached a tipping point.
* Some freak kid does it in ''Film/TheBox''.
* ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' might be the [[TropeMakers first example]] of [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angryman1.JPG this trope]] in film. The actor doing the stare is Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who also popularized MilkingTheGiantCow in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
* ''Film/{{Capote}}'': Perry Smith does one later in the film when he confronts Truman about his book's title.
* [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9y9xyuCYX1qgnixfo2_400.jpg Edmund Pevensie]] in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', when he is tempted by evil again.
* ''Film/TheCrow'': Post-mortem Eric Draven is quite fond of [[http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/938/938301/the-crow-remake-20081215041917272.jpg this.]]
* John Murdoch does this in ''Film/DarkCity'' after [[spoiler:getting [[ExpositionBeam a lifetime's worth of training]] in [[PsychicPowers Tuning]] injected into his brain]]. Creator/RogerEbert even points out the Kubrick connection in his audio commentary on the DVD.
* ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', as his posture is often slightly hunched over, is practically ''built'' to give these stares. [[spoiler:Perhaps this is most noticeable when he's sitting in the holding cell, even more so when he joins in the clapping for Gordon's promotion.]] As it happened, Creator/GaryOldman told Creator/HeathLedger after this was shot that his performance was reminding him of Alex in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''; Ledger admitted he had just been watching that film in his trailer.
* Virtually every shot of Creator/JakeGyllenhaal in ''Film/DonnieDarko'' is a Kubrick Stare. Apparently, it runs in the family; Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal does an oddly sexy Kubrick stare in a few of her movies, particularly ''Film/{{Secretary}}''.
* ''Film/{{Girlfight}}'': Diana stares at the camera in this fashion during the first shot of her.
* Connor Macleod gives one of these in ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' (the first film) when The Kurgan reveals he raped Heather. (She never told Connor, likely fearing he'd go after The Kurgan and get killed.)
* Thorin Oakenshield is much given to these in ''Film/TheHobbit''. When you're a dwarf you don't have much choice but to glare ''up'' at people.
** King Thranduil pulls off some really chilling ones as well, especially fighting orcs. Lord Elrond and Lady Galadriel can really pull off just plain terrifying ones.
* Stane's expression in the poster for ''Film/IronMan1''. Kind of odd -- Obie's actually a [[AffablyEvil pretty]] [[BlatantLies nice]] [[TheStarscream guy]].
* ''[[Film/IT2017 IT]]'': Pennywise does this in all the promotional images for the film. His actor, Creator/BillSkarsgard, also pulled a similar face on a few talk shows to show his natural and eerie knack for the expression.
* Try to find a photo of Creator/JamesCagney where he's [[TypeCasting in character]] and ''isn't'' doing this. (No surprise that he was one of Kubrick's favorite actors). See Gary Oldman's Tonight Show appearance below for a description of the Cagney version of the Kubrick Stare.
* In the 2000 adaptation of ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'', King Herod pulls this look toward Jesus just before he ''really'' starts going: "At least, that's what you've saaaaaid-" [FascinatingEyebrow] "''-dah.''"
* The 1953 film adaptation of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' has Marc Anthony doing this a lot -- the actor was Creator/MarlonBrando! Underscoring that this movie made Marc Anthony a rather sinister figure.
* ''Film/KillBill Volume 1'': Gogo Yubari, O-Ren Ishii's chief bodyguard, gives Kubrick stares in most of her scenes, including her flail-wielding confrontation with The Bride.
* ''Film/LicenceToKill'': Dario, Sanchez's [[TheDragon right-hand man]], makes this look several times, accompanied with a SlasherSmile.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** Frodo does one in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' for just an instant, when he [[spoiler:claims the Ring for himself in Mount Doom]].
** Merry gets the effect in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' when he's yelling at the Ents for refusing to fight, though it's actually incidental due to him having to look up at them.
** Gandalf also has this effect when [[StaringDownCthulhu he faces the Balrog]], again it's incidental due to The Balrog being 35 feet taller than him.
** In the introduction of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' Isildur gives this look to Elrond when he refuses to destroy the Ring.
* ''Film/ManOfSteel'': General Zod does one near the end when [[spoiler: his plan to {{Terraform}} Earth is foiled and his crew are banished to the Phantom Zone]].
** Zod's actor, Creator/MichaelShannon, is actually well-known for doing good Kubrick stares — appropriately so, considering he's normally typecast as crazed and/or violent types.
* Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein gives this stare to John Cleese as Professor Waldman in ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein''. The intention is not so much to intimidate as to impress Waldman with Frankenstein's knowledge and dead seriousness about resurrecting the dead.
* Creator/KeanuReeves gives us one after blowing up Smith in ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* Creator/NaomiWatts, of all people, gives a chilling glare near the end of the film ''Film/MulhollandDrive''.
* Ms. Appleyard at the end of in ''Film/PicnicAtHangingRock'' -- an especially disturbing example.
* Norman Stansfield is fond of giving these in ''Film/TheProfessional''.
* ''Film/TheProphecy'': Quite unsettling to see on a little girl like Mary.
* Norman Bates at the end of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', made in 1960.
* The Defence Secretary gives such a stare to M when he levels various complaints against her and her agency in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''.
* Creator/TommyWiseau does this in the poster for ''Film/TheRoom'' ([[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TheRoomMovie.jpg link]]).
* James Van Der Beek gives this look in an early scene from ''Film/TheRulesOfAttraction'', in the scene featuring Creator/KateBosworth.
* The default expression of the MadScientist villain in ''Film/{{Runaway}}''. Of course, it only helps when your name is Luther and you're played by [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]].
* Hannibal Lecter gives a cold, emotionless one in ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' with an emphasis on creepy because he doesn't blink.
* Kevin, the sociopathic cannibal (no, not the one above) from ''Film/SinCity'', gives an indescribably creepy Kubrick Stare right before he ambushes the protagonist [[AntiHero Marv]]. Marv does one right back upon overhearing the cannibal's name from his prison. "See you later, Kevin."
* Barbara does this in ''Film/StarkLove'' when Rob comes to rescue her from brutish Jason, only for Jason to kick Rob's ass. Barbara then rescues herself.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': One of the movie posters has Creator/ChrisPine in [[http://img.trekmovie.com/images/st09/Kirk_CharacterPoster_72DPI.jpg this pose]], which unfortunately makes Captain Kirk look like a dead ringer for Series/{{Dexter}}.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Harrison tilts his head down and to the right, and then angrily stares up at Kirk while delivering his BreakingSpeech about the failures of Starfleet.
* ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith]]'': When Anakin Skywalker turns evil and becomes Darth Vader, he gets yellow eyes that he always displays by using one of these.
* Throughout the first half of ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', Rameses has this look whenever Moses proves how much more awesome he is at pretty much everything.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series:
** Sarah Connor in the hospital in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
** Robert Patrick's T-1000, throughout the entirety of the second movie, is a prime example.
** Terminator's face in the opening credits, even though it lacks eyebrows, is permanently grinning a skull grin.
* ''Film/TheThing1982''. Used as a RedHerring [[spoiler:when Windows is receiving the blood test; he's shown staring at Mac in this fashion as if he's about to attack him, but as soon as the test proves negative Windows visibly relaxes.]]
* Used in ''Film/TheThirdMan'', making this trope OlderThanTheyThink.
* Evil from ''Film/TimeBandits'' does this a few times while apparently trying to cast a spell. He lifts his arms up and his face glows red, but he's interrupted before he can finish what he's doing. In the end, [[spoiler:it turns him into a crumbling statue, and the Supreme Being appears to clean things up]].
* Played for sexy by Creator/LaurenBacall in ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'', reportedly because Bacall was nervous about working with [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Bogey]] and was trying to keep from shaking. Considering that they later got married, that's adorable.
* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', the villain manages to do this ''off camera''. That is to say, he stares villainously into the camera for his driver's license photo. He ensured that every cop who pulled him over would realize he was evil. He also pulled it off several times on camera, but the driver's license deserves special mention.
* Another Kevin, Kevin Katchadourian from ''Film/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin'' usually gives one of these before a BreakThemByTalking.
* ''Film/WhenDarknessFalls'': Leyla's mother does this after Leyla realizes that [[spoiler:her mother staged her sister's death, not her father which she thought first.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Creator/HughJackman in the films deliberately adopted a subtle version of this, but he came upon the idea independently. In an interview he said something about always trying to keep his head just slightly bowed, to imitate the way a wolf looks at you over its nose.
** Magneto in his plastic prison in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''.
** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': [[InTheBlood Like father, like daughter.]] [[Comicbook/{{X 23}} Laura]] delivers a positively ''withering'' one to Pierce at Logan's hideout, when she walks towards him and [[DecapitationPresentation tosses the head of one of his Reavers]] at his feet. The fact it's being delivered with aplomb by an ''eleven-year-old girl'' just makes it even ''more'' chilling.
