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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf45HijUTYs "Here's Johnny!"]] scene from ''Film/TheShining''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL7dpnG4h1I05Cc88XnWGEsg&v=33KjGSbSpMY&feature=player_detailpage#t=35s (Alternate Version.)]]
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf45HijUTYs "Here's Johnny!"]] scene from ''Film/TheShining''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL7dpnG4h1I05Cc88XnWGEsg&v=33KjGSbSpMY&feature=player_detailpage#t=35s (Alternate Version.)]])]] In fact it's Jack's default expression even before he goes literally AxCrazy, giving the impression that he's putting up a MaskOfSanity or at least [[StepfordSmiler pretending to be more cheerful than he is]].
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** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'':
*** In the opening where WWII pilots Lieutenant Hank Marlow and Gunpei Ikari have just crashed on Skull Island, Gunpei is grinning in bloodlust when he gets close to impaling Hank in their fight before Kong shows up.
*** When the bombs are being dropped on Skull Island, Captain Cole, who is one of the more traumatized Vietnam War vets in the film though not villainous like Packard, is grinning as he watches the explosions reflect in his shades.
*** Near the end of the film, Packard, [[spoiler:[[HeWhoFightsMonsters in stark contrast to his remorseful men]], has an utterly demented smirk on his face when he tries to burn Kong alive]].
** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]]. His [[MultipleHeadCase three heads]] all take at least one turn grinning with glee at Ghidorah doing something particularly evil before the film ends. The most prominent one is the middle head (Ichi), who smirks knowingly just before the heads ready their [[BreathWeapon gravity beams]] to incinerate a bunch of soldiers ForTheEvulz in Antarctica, and he also has the widest grin of all the heads when they're trying to attack the people-filled AirborneAircraftCarrier unprovoked in Mexico.
** ''Film/KongSkullIsland'':
*** In the opening where WWII pilots Lieutenant Hank Marlow and Gunpei Ikari have just crashed on Skull Island, Gunpei is grinning in bloodlust when he gets close to impaling Hank in their fight before Kong shows up.
*** When the bombs are being dropped on Skull Island, Captain Cole, who is one of the more traumatized Vietnam War vets in the film though not villainous like Packard, is grinning as he watches the explosions reflect in his shades.
*** Near the end of the film, Packard, [[spoiler:[[HeWhoFightsMonsters in stark contrast to his remorseful men]], has an utterly demented smirk on his face when he tries to burn Kong alive]].
** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]]. His [[MultipleHeadCase three heads]] all take at least one turn grinning with glee at Ghidorah doing something particularly evil before the film ends. The most prominent one is the middle head (Ichi), who smirks knowingly just before the heads ready their [[BreathWeapon gravity beams]] to incinerate a bunch of soldiers ForTheEvulz in Antarctica, and he also has the widest grin of all the heads when they're trying to attack the people-filled AirborneAircraftCarrier unprovoked in Mexico.
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* All of the various live-action incarnations of ComicBook/TheJoker, naturally. Special mention to Creator/JackNicholson's version from ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'', who has his face permanently distorted into one, and Creator/HeathLedger's take from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', who sports a large GlasgowGrin.
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* All of the various live-action incarnations of ComicBook/TheJoker, naturally. Special mention to Creator/JackNicholson's version from ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'', who has his face permanently distorted into one, and Creator/HeathLedger's take from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', who sports a large GlasgowGrin. Special mention should go the former, where even as his pre-transformation self he manages an absolutely terrifying rictus smile after he kills Bruce Wayne's parents and is about to do the same to the boy.
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* Mary Shaw from Film/DeadSilence has got looks that kill. [[TongueTrauma No, Really.]]
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* [[AxCrazy Mitsuko]] from ''Film/BattleRoyale'' before killing Megumi. The girl at the beginning of the film (the battle's first female winner) has a seriously creepy one too.
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* [[AxCrazy Mitsuko]] from ''Film/BattleRoyale'' the ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' movie before killing Megumi. The girl at the beginning of the film (the battle's first female winner) has a seriously creepy one too.
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** ''Film/Elves2017'': Whenever the elf doll starts communicating to its victims [[spoiler:by making them think it's talking to them]] through someone else, that person's face [[https://www.gbhbl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Elves-Pic-3-768x432.jpg smiles in an unnaturally big way]].
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* ''Film/TheElf'': Sometimes, the elf doll gives off a smile of perfect wooden whites inside of black lips.
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* ''Film/DayOfTheOutlaw'': Tex and Pace, the two most psychotic members of Bruhn's band of outlaws, sport these much of the time, but especially whenever they raise the prospect of raping the townswomen.
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'''Buck:''' You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!
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'''Buck:''' You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!
*The Mouth of Sauron has an almost perpetual one before the Battle of the Black Gate in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. It's especially creepy because it's the only thing that is visible on his face. This is in contrast to his book counterpart, [[StepfordSmiler who is just as completely insane but much more subtle]].
*The Mouth of Sauron has an almost perpetual one before the Battle of the Black Gate in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. It's especially creepy because it's the only thing that is visible on his face. This is in contrast to his book counterpart, [[StepfordSmiler who is just as completely insane but much more subtle]].
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* ''Film/It2017'' Pennywise sports a wicked, evil grin that flashes some sharp front teeth most of the time and gets taken to horrific proportions when [[spoiler:all the teeth come out.]]
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* ''Film/It2017'' ''Film/{{Insidious}} 2'': While talking to Carl, Josh smiles a disturbing one due to being possessed by Parker, an insane serial killer. It quickly drops when Carl figures out what's going on.
* ''Film/It2017'': Pennywise sports a wicked, evil grin that flashes some sharp front teeth most of the time and gets taken to horrific proportions when [[spoiler:all the teeth come out.]]
* ''Film/It2017'': Pennywise sports a wicked, evil grin that flashes some sharp front teeth most of the time and gets taken to horrific proportions when [[spoiler:all the teeth come out.]]
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* Just about every villain played by Creator/WillemDafoe, [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120179/mediaviewer/rm4218362880 with]] ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' [[https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/20/08/willem-dafoe-spiderman.jpg?width=1200 and]] ''Film/SpiderMan1'' standing out. ''Webvideo/HonestTrailers'' even comments "Echhh. His face looks a lot better with the mask on." Webvideo/ToddInTheShadows also noted that one of the many flaws in ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'' is having Dafoe starring in an erotic thriller, when that smile is one hell of a FetishRetardant.
* Creator/JimCarrey has done this trope in ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective'', ''Lemony Snicket's Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', and ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' to demonstrate how remarkable his rubber face really is when it comes to expressions. According to one account, it's basically how he got the latter role: "He took his face and he Grinched it."
* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', [[TheSnarkKnight Wednesday]] smiles thrice. The first was TheUnSmile after being forced to watch a Disney flick. The second was when she caused a riot at the Thanksgiving play and burns everything to the ground. The third is the very last shot of the movie where she pranks Joel to the point where he's screaming bloody murder (oddly, she had just said that the best way for a woman to murder her [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther husband]] is to scare him to death).
* Several particularly disturbing examples abound in the movie ''Film/TheBabadook''. The protagonist, Amelia, sees charcoal-drawn images of herself in a supposed children's book...her eyes are hollow black orbs and she has a huge psychotic grin as she murders her dog, her son and [[DrivenToSuicide herself]]. Later, she promises her son that she will keep them "safe". Unfortunately at the time she is pointing a kitchen knife at him and grinning like a complete lunatic. But that's just the warm-up. Moments later, she watches the TV half-asleep and listens to a grisly news report discussing a woman murdering her young son with a knife. In the background, barely visible, a Slasher Smile wearing woman is staring from a window... and [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness it's Amelia herself]]. OhCrap.
* [[AxCrazy Mitsuko]] from ''Film/BattleRoyale'' before killing Megumi. The girl at the beginning of the film (the battle's first female winner) has a seriously creepy one too.
* Creator/NataliePortman unleashes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20130125214112im_/http://www.n-portman.org/gallery/albums/Movies/Black%20Swan/Screen%20Captures/1036.jpg a blood-curdling one]] in ''Film/BlackSwan'' while portraying her doppelganger in the bath scene.
* Alex from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', whenever he gets deep into the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90KPJ6n4Ew&feature=related old ultraviolence. (forms at around 1:10)]]
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'', every single time he [[spoiler: sees his giant bunny-friend Frank.]] It's a little creepy, to say the least. No teeth in this one, though.
* ''Film/EventHorizon'': The ending portion of the [[ApocalypticLog Blood Orgy]] shows us the incredibly unnerving sight of captain Kilpack creepily uttering [[spoiler: ''"Libera te tutemet ex inferis..."'']] while [[BloodIsTheNewBlack completely covered from head-to-toe in blood and gore]], [[EyeScream holding his own gouged-out eyes in the bloodstained palms of his hands]] and facing at the camera with a nightmarish grin.
* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' also makes use of this trope when [[spoiler:Sariss, disguised as Fred, arrives on the command deck to kill off the heroes]]. It's a very well-played OhCrap moment.
* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', this, together with [[EvilSoundsDeep a horrifying demon voice]], lets Dr. Venkman (and us) know "There is no Dana, only Zuul."
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': [[BigBad The Kurgan]] sports one several times throughout the film. The most epic one being [[spoiler:in the church meeting with Connor, when he pieces together from Connor's mortified reaction that the girl he raped in 1542 after he took Ramirez's head was actually ''Connor's wife'', and takes some sick glee in the fact that she never told Connor about it[[note]]Being the sick bastard he is, he suggests it was because she [[PostRapeTaunt actually liked the violation]], but more likely is she feared her husband would go after the Kurgan and be killed if he ever found out what happened to her, or just she was too traumatized to ever speak about it.[[/note]].]]
* ''Film/It2017'' Pennywise sports a wicked, evil grin that flashes some sharp front teeth most of the time and gets taken to horrific proportions when [[spoiler:all the teeth come out.]]
* All of the various live-action incarnations of ComicBook/TheJoker, naturally. Special mention to Creator/JackNicholson's version from ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'', who has his face permanently distorted into one, and Creator/HeathLedger's take from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', who sports a large GlasgowGrin.
** Interestingly subverted with Creator/JoaquinPhoenix's version from ''[[Film/Joker2019 Joker]]''. When he's shown smiling/laughing, it's either very subdued, or as a result of the medical condition that causes him to laugh uncontrollably; when he does kill someone, he's actually completely serious. It's not until the end that he actually starts to adopt one.
* The ''Indoraptor'' from ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. Technically for a dinosaur, it has the mind of a serial killer, during the scene where one of the antagonists Weatley tranquilizes it to collect one of its teeth. the ''Indoraptor'' wakes up (it's not tranq'ed) and smiles before biting off Weatley's arm and killing him.
* [[spoiler:Rhonda]] flashes one to the camera as she holds up the giant safety pin at the end of ''Film/KillerWorkout''.
* The film version of ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' has Creator/ConradVeidt with one of these permanently etched into his face. Considering his best-known role up to that point was [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari a sleepwalking serial killer]], the character in this film turned out to be [[PlayingAgainstType a good deal more sympathetic]] than one would expect. [[spoiler:His smile was the result of a surgical disfiguration. He was actually a pretty nice guy.]]
* ''Film/MrSardonicus'' took liberal inspiration from the aforementioned ''The Man Who Laughs'' with the [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/2186924247_5cb2d6583f.jpg?v=0 carved smile]], but the character was much less of a sweet guy than Gwynplaine. It was up to the audience to decide whether he was a villain or an AntiVillain -- this being a Creator/WilliamCastle film, they were polled, and a different ending would be screened based on whether they thought he should be treated mercifully. They killed him every time, and the mercy ending is probably lost for eternity, assuming it ever existed at all.
* ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'' has Clark Griswald become somewhat unhinged come the end of the movie as his idea of a "perfect Christmas" gradually disappears; his smile, however, stays.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** Barbossa frequently has one, adequate for [[LargeHam how much overacting is involved]].
** Pintel employs it while discovering the hidden Elizabeth. 'Hello, poppet.'
** Tia Dalma [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/f/fb/AWETialookingatJackintheLocker.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20120705025957 has]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/1/18/DMCTiaDalmaSmile.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/320?cb=20140519045813 some]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/f/f7/Calypso_Giant.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/622?cb=20100828015307 cases]], including [[https://i.redd.it/owfuif740hk11.jpg one promotional picture]] for ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.
%%** Jack Sparrow, Barbossa, Gibbs, Pintel and Ragetti. Will and Elizabeth too during the big actions scenes
* In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', Norman Bates gets off an epic one at the end while he's in a holding cell.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': Dr. Frank N Furter has one of these right before he [[spoiler:kills Eddie with a pick axe]].
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf45HijUTYs "Here's Johnny!"]] scene from ''Film/TheShining''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL7dpnG4h1I05Cc88XnWGEsg&v=33KjGSbSpMY&feature=player_detailpage#t=35s (Alternate Version.)]]
* The short horror film ''Smile'' revolves around body-snatching beings with hideous grinning faces. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1Erm2C4iQ It's well worth a watch.]]
* [[spoiler:[[HijackedByGanon Ernst]] [[BigBad Stavro Blofeld]]]] briefly gives a creepy grin as he subjects James Bond to ColdBloodedTorture in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', and later on, [[spoiler:when he takes BondGirl Madeleine Swann hostage and threatens to have her killed by blowing up the old [=MI6=] building in an effort to humiliate Bond.]]
* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Sweeney Todd|TheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}}'' just after the Pirelli sequence, Sweeney directs one at the Beadle. Scary doesn't even cut it. It's enough to make Jack the Ripper wet his pants. Although, like Donnie above he doesn't bare his teeth, so may overlap with PsychoticSmirk.
* In the Tony Jaa movie ''Film/TomYumGoong'', or ''The Protector'', one of the many opponents that Tony faces is a Capoeira fighter, who has just attacked a Buddhist temple full of innocent people, set the place ablaze, and then attacks Tony as soon as he arrives to help. What qualifies "Mr. Fake Eddie Gordo" for this trope is the fact that while he fights Tony, he laughs, taunts Tony, and openly toys with him using feints and false moves.
* At the end of the third segment of the 1975 made-for-TV movie ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'' the eponymous "Amelia" crouches down low in an animalistic manner, hiding in the corner with a carving knife. She stabs at the floor with the weapon, grinning ferally and revealing the horrific teeth of the [[CreepyDoll Zuni doll]].
* The ever lovable late comedian Creator/JohnCandy had this expression on his face in ''Film/UncleBuck'' during the scene where he comes to the bedroom of Tia's "boyfriend" Bug to rescue Tia by drilling a hole through the doorknob, he's also holding a drill and smoking a cigar. Although generally throughout the movie Buck comes out as kind of kooky such as when he asks Tia "How would you like to spend the next several nights wondering if your crazy out of work bum uncle will shave your head while you sleep?" and where he's talking to Tia's boyfriend about burying the hatchet.
-->'''Bug:''' Ever hear of a tuneup? Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!\\
'''Buck:''' Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee! Ever hear of a ritual killing? Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!\\
'''Bug:''' ...I don't get it...\\
'''Buck:''' You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!
* Creator/JimCarrey has done this trope in ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective'', ''Lemony Snicket's Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', and ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' to demonstrate how remarkable his rubber face really is when it comes to expressions. According to one account, it's basically how he got the latter role: "He took his face and he Grinched it."
* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', [[TheSnarkKnight Wednesday]] smiles thrice. The first was TheUnSmile after being forced to watch a Disney flick. The second was when she caused a riot at the Thanksgiving play and burns everything to the ground. The third is the very last shot of the movie where she pranks Joel to the point where he's screaming bloody murder (oddly, she had just said that the best way for a woman to murder her [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther husband]] is to scare him to death).
* Several particularly disturbing examples abound in the movie ''Film/TheBabadook''. The protagonist, Amelia, sees charcoal-drawn images of herself in a supposed children's book...her eyes are hollow black orbs and she has a huge psychotic grin as she murders her dog, her son and [[DrivenToSuicide herself]]. Later, she promises her son that she will keep them "safe". Unfortunately at the time she is pointing a kitchen knife at him and grinning like a complete lunatic. But that's just the warm-up. Moments later, she watches the TV half-asleep and listens to a grisly news report discussing a woman murdering her young son with a knife. In the background, barely visible, a Slasher Smile wearing woman is staring from a window... and [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness it's Amelia herself]]. OhCrap.
* [[AxCrazy Mitsuko]] from ''Film/BattleRoyale'' before killing Megumi. The girl at the beginning of the film (the battle's first female winner) has a seriously creepy one too.
* Creator/NataliePortman unleashes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20130125214112im_/http://www.n-portman.org/gallery/albums/Movies/Black%20Swan/Screen%20Captures/1036.jpg a blood-curdling one]] in ''Film/BlackSwan'' while portraying her doppelganger in the bath scene.
* Alex from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', whenever he gets deep into the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v90KPJ6n4Ew&feature=related old ultraviolence. (forms at around 1:10)]]
* ''Film/DonnieDarko'', every single time he [[spoiler: sees his giant bunny-friend Frank.]] It's a little creepy, to say the least. No teeth in this one, though.
* ''Film/EventHorizon'': The ending portion of the [[ApocalypticLog Blood Orgy]] shows us the incredibly unnerving sight of captain Kilpack creepily uttering [[spoiler: ''"Libera te tutemet ex inferis..."'']] while [[BloodIsTheNewBlack completely covered from head-to-toe in blood and gore]], [[EyeScream holding his own gouged-out eyes in the bloodstained palms of his hands]] and facing at the camera with a nightmarish grin.
* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' also makes use of this trope when [[spoiler:Sariss, disguised as Fred, arrives on the command deck to kill off the heroes]]. It's a very well-played OhCrap moment.
* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', this, together with [[EvilSoundsDeep a horrifying demon voice]], lets Dr. Venkman (and us) know "There is no Dana, only Zuul."
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': [[BigBad The Kurgan]] sports one several times throughout the film. The most epic one being [[spoiler:in the church meeting with Connor, when he pieces together from Connor's mortified reaction that the girl he raped in 1542 after he took Ramirez's head was actually ''Connor's wife'', and takes some sick glee in the fact that she never told Connor about it[[note]]Being the sick bastard he is, he suggests it was because she [[PostRapeTaunt actually liked the violation]], but more likely is she feared her husband would go after the Kurgan and be killed if he ever found out what happened to her, or just she was too traumatized to ever speak about it.[[/note]].]]
* ''Film/It2017'' Pennywise sports a wicked, evil grin that flashes some sharp front teeth most of the time and gets taken to horrific proportions when [[spoiler:all the teeth come out.]]
* All of the various live-action incarnations of ComicBook/TheJoker, naturally. Special mention to Creator/JackNicholson's version from ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'', who has his face permanently distorted into one, and Creator/HeathLedger's take from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', who sports a large GlasgowGrin.
** Interestingly subverted with Creator/JoaquinPhoenix's version from ''[[Film/Joker2019 Joker]]''. When he's shown smiling/laughing, it's either very subdued, or as a result of the medical condition that causes him to laugh uncontrollably; when he does kill someone, he's actually completely serious. It's not until the end that he actually starts to adopt one.
* The ''Indoraptor'' from ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. Technically for a dinosaur, it has the mind of a serial killer, during the scene where one of the antagonists Weatley tranquilizes it to collect one of its teeth. the ''Indoraptor'' wakes up (it's not tranq'ed) and smiles before biting off Weatley's arm and killing him.
* [[spoiler:Rhonda]] flashes one to the camera as she holds up the giant safety pin at the end of ''Film/KillerWorkout''.
* The film version of ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' has Creator/ConradVeidt with one of these permanently etched into his face. Considering his best-known role up to that point was [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari a sleepwalking serial killer]], the character in this film turned out to be [[PlayingAgainstType a good deal more sympathetic]] than one would expect. [[spoiler:His smile was the result of a surgical disfiguration. He was actually a pretty nice guy.]]
* ''Film/MrSardonicus'' took liberal inspiration from the aforementioned ''The Man Who Laughs'' with the [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2364/2186924247_5cb2d6583f.jpg?v=0 carved smile]], but the character was much less of a sweet guy than Gwynplaine. It was up to the audience to decide whether he was a villain or an AntiVillain -- this being a Creator/WilliamCastle film, they were polled, and a different ending would be screened based on whether they thought he should be treated mercifully. They killed him every time, and the mercy ending is probably lost for eternity, assuming it ever existed at all.
* ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'' has Clark Griswald become somewhat unhinged come the end of the movie as his idea of a "perfect Christmas" gradually disappears; his smile, however, stays.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** Barbossa frequently has one, adequate for [[LargeHam how much overacting is involved]].
** Pintel employs it while discovering the hidden Elizabeth. 'Hello, poppet.'
** Tia Dalma [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/f/fb/AWETialookingatJackintheLocker.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20120705025957 has]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/1/18/DMCTiaDalmaSmile.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/320?cb=20140519045813 some]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/f/f7/Calypso_Giant.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/622?cb=20100828015307 cases]], including [[https://i.redd.it/owfuif740hk11.jpg one promotional picture]] for ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.
%%** Jack Sparrow, Barbossa, Gibbs, Pintel and Ragetti. Will and Elizabeth too during the big actions scenes
* In ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', Norman Bates gets off an epic one at the end while he's in a holding cell.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': Dr. Frank N Furter has one of these right before he [[spoiler:kills Eddie with a pick axe]].
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf45HijUTYs "Here's Johnny!"]] scene from ''Film/TheShining''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL7dpnG4h1I05Cc88XnWGEsg&v=33KjGSbSpMY&feature=player_detailpage#t=35s (Alternate Version.)]]
* The short horror film ''Smile'' revolves around body-snatching beings with hideous grinning faces. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1Erm2C4iQ It's well worth a watch.]]
* [[spoiler:[[HijackedByGanon Ernst]] [[BigBad Stavro Blofeld]]]] briefly gives a creepy grin as he subjects James Bond to ColdBloodedTorture in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', and later on, [[spoiler:when he takes BondGirl Madeleine Swann hostage and threatens to have her killed by blowing up the old [=MI6=] building in an effort to humiliate Bond.]]
* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Sweeney Todd|TheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}}'' just after the Pirelli sequence, Sweeney directs one at the Beadle. Scary doesn't even cut it. It's enough to make Jack the Ripper wet his pants. Although, like Donnie above he doesn't bare his teeth, so may overlap with PsychoticSmirk.
* In the Tony Jaa movie ''Film/TomYumGoong'', or ''The Protector'', one of the many opponents that Tony faces is a Capoeira fighter, who has just attacked a Buddhist temple full of innocent people, set the place ablaze, and then attacks Tony as soon as he arrives to help. What qualifies "Mr. Fake Eddie Gordo" for this trope is the fact that while he fights Tony, he laughs, taunts Tony, and openly toys with him using feints and false moves.
* At the end of the third segment of the 1975 made-for-TV movie ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'' the eponymous "Amelia" crouches down low in an animalistic manner, hiding in the corner with a carving knife. She stabs at the floor with the weapon, grinning ferally and revealing the horrific teeth of the [[CreepyDoll Zuni doll]].
* The ever lovable late comedian Creator/JohnCandy had this expression on his face in ''Film/UncleBuck'' during the scene where he comes to the bedroom of Tia's "boyfriend" Bug to rescue Tia by drilling a hole through the doorknob, he's also holding a drill and smoking a cigar. Although generally throughout the movie Buck comes out as kind of kooky such as when he asks Tia "How would you like to spend the next several nights wondering if your crazy out of work bum uncle will shave your head while you sleep?" and where he's talking to Tia's boyfriend about burying the hatchet.
-->'''Bug:''' Ever hear of a tuneup? Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!\\
'''Buck:''' Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee! Ever hear of a ritual killing? Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!\\
'''Bug:''' ...I don't get it...\\
'''Buck:''' You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you'll be one. Ah-hee-hee-hee-hee!
