History UncannyValley / Film

* E.B. in the film {{Hop}}. His fur and facial features is realistic enough to pass for that of a real rabbit. Yet the proportion of his head and body size just doesn't look right, and healthy rabbits aren't supposed to be that skinny. It just doesn't add up.

* The scene on the Extended Edition of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Return of the King]]'' with the MouthOfSauron: that [[RedRightHand unnaturally large mouth and grin]].... It came about because PeterJackson walked in on the editing, decided he wasn't scary enough, and had them [[UpToEleven ''double the dimensions of the mouth in both directions''.]] It succeeded admirably.

** And it appears to have been [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in the film with CLU, as well as [[FanService Gem and the Armory Sirens,]] who move perfectly in sync with each other.

* Another inadvertent in a Schwarzenegger movie: ''TotalRecall'', with [=JohnnyCab=]. He's even creepier when he's melting. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17duGlHEYY "TWO WEEKS!"]]

* In ''DieAnotherDay, Zao [[http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.php?image=EamonnMcCusker/Bond20SE02.jpg and his pale hairless diamond-encrusted face.]]

* E.B. in the film {{Hop}}. His fur and facial features is realistic enough to pass for that of a real rabbit. Yet the proportion of his head and body size just doesn't feel right, and healthy rabbits aren't supposed to be that skinny. It just feels wrong.

* The battle room drones in ''Film/FlashGordon''. Tear the glasses off, and they have no eyes, just wires sticking out of empty holes!

** The fact that they have an identical body structure to humans and western body language also pretty much made people refuse to believe that the Na'vi were realistic at ''all''.
*** Were we even watching the same film? Particularly with body language. The effect of light on skin is a case of RealityIsUnrealistic.
**** The Na'vi definitely followed human body structure and body language too much. They are aliens. They are not supposed to be the same shape as us. The other biological patterns of their planet (like the 'gills', the six limbs etc.) mysteriously do not apply to them. As for body language, an example is the fact that there isn't even a good explanation for why humans kiss. Not all human cultures kiss. SO WHY DO THE NA'VI DO IT?

* The pre-serumed Steve Rogers in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Hi8B1jOBo&feature=player_embedded Captain America trailer]] is distinctly...off. Given that the CGI's done' by the same people that did [[http://www.thedorkreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/curious-case-of-benjamin-button-1.jpg The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]], it's not much of a surprise.

* Jeff Bridges' CGIed face in TronLegacy fell into this category for a lot of viewers.

* The Spielberg movie ''[=~A.I.: Artificial Intelligence~=]'' turned the Uncanny Valley on its head by having actual actors play the human-looking androids. However, it was used for effect in some scenes with CGI-animated partially damaged androids being hunted down and put on a bonfire and a sequence with many identical boy and girl androids hanging in the factory. The part where David "breaks" after ingesting human food (he shudders to a stop and the left side of his face sags alarmingly) was particularly effective. Alas, a scene after that, where David is lying down on a operating table, still looking human, but with the "skin" on his chest peeled away, especially with them "testing" him; they flick something in him and his hand rises up slowly in a dead manner.

* Both ''{{Terminator}}'' and ''Terminator 2'' (deliberately?) enter the Uncanny Valley: the former when [[spoiler:the Terminator performs surgery on its face in the mirror]], and the latter when [[spoiler:T-1000 is talking on the phone in a woman's voice]]. Some people have said that they found Terminator in the first movie creepy. Look closely and he doesn't look normal, and there's something funny about his eyes before he damages one. The reason his eyes look funny is that he's lost his eyebrows. JamesCameron had Arnie's face sprayed with Vaseline to deliberately invoke this trope and make it appear that something wasn't quite right about his skin, but that you wouldn't consciously know what. Done again in T3 with CGI used to erase any trace of the Terminators blinking when they get hit in the face or fire their weapons.

** The scene where T-1000 chases the police car is probably the pinnacle of the trope, right beside the aforementioned talking in a woman's voice.

* Mr. Universe's "wife" in ''Film/{{Serenity}}''.

** The White Queen just feels slightly weird due to the exaggerated dark make-up and flaunting mannerisms. You might say she's adorably wrong in this sense.
** [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4402378381_246c62dbab.jpg The Caterpillar]]. AlanRickman's face? [[YourMileageMayVary Very nice to look at]]. AlanRickman's face ''on a caterpillar''?! HELL to the no. Sorry, but an insect's face should ''not'' emote like a human's.

** And for a final amount of ''Squick'' in the Sequel Marsha and Greg (even though have lived together in the same house for what in ''RealLife'' equates to their entire adolescences and most of their adulthoods) seriously consider to start Dating...'''[[BrotherSisterIncest Each Other]]''' only shortly after learning that their parents possibly weren't legally married.

* Mostly averted in the 2007 film adaptation of ''Film/{{Beowulf}}'' since everything is Motion-captured in real-time, and the character design and graphics are similar to those from a modern video game. Most of the extras however (whom they didn't bother to do Mo-Cap with their faces) tend to fit squarely in the middle of the Valley.

* While {{Amelie}} Poulain looks pretty normal in her eponymous film, the cover/poster rendition of her is a bit [[http://usera.imagecave.com/Tokenmaster/C1204.jpg disturbing]]. Those eyes....

* The scene on the Extended Edition of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Return of the King]]'' with the MouthOfSauron: that unnaturally large mouth and grin.... It came about because PeterJackson walked in on the editing, decided he wasn't scary enough, and had them ''double the dimensions of the mouth in both directions''. It succeeded admirably.

** Indeed it's the facial proportians. It's relatively subtle at first, but the eyes are 2 to 2.5 times larger than normal and more widely spaced...because the nose is about twice as wide and flattened considerably. The mouth is normal-sized, which serves to emphasize the other changes. The ears are not just hollowed and pointed, they're a full inch and a half higher on the head.

* At the climactic scene of ''[[IndianaJones Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' before the three main bad guys are destroyed by the Ark, there screaming faces are contorted and exaggerated in horrific ways before either melting away, vacuumed from within or exploding.

* This is deliberately invoked in TheThrawnTrilogy - at the end of the second book, Luke and Han remove the masks from some of Thrawn's dead {{mooks}} and are ''deeply'' creeped out to find that ''every corpse has the same face''. [[spoiler:To say nothing of the trilogy's climax, when Luke finds himself forced to duel a BrainwashedAndCrazy clone ''of himself''.]]

** Not for [[SoulEater Death the Kid]]
** This troper is pretty sure the symmetrical face effect was used in a [[UnderStatement very creepy]] PS3 commerical a few years ago.

* In ''JackFrost'' (no, not the film about the killer snowman), Michael Keaton is reincarnated as [[http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6673/jackfrostl.jpg this horrifying thing]]. Many people (including RogerEbert) saw the way it looked and moved as NightmareFuel.

*** This troper is pretty sure the symmetrical face effect was used in a [[UnderStatement very creepy]] PS3 commerical a few years ago.

*** I believe this was used in a very creepy PS3 commerical a few years ago.

** Also to add to the obviousness of this trope is that all of the main characters act Not..Quite..Right. Almost as if the Brady Family were in the interim of 30+ years after the original show were [[PodPeople abducted then replaced with Aliens]] that don't quite know how to react with normal Humanity. However this is something that even their obnoxious next door neighbors do notice then then rest of the neighborhood (this is something that the Bradys greedy Realtor next door neighbor exploits in order to have them evicted from their home.). To boot most of the principal actors (as is [[AdaptationDecay common with most TV to theatrical film Remakes]]) bear very little resemblance of their original counterparts. Although for most of the film it really isn't creepy just annoying, You'd think that after over 30 years their personalities would have evolved a little.

* The baby on the ceiling in Trainspotting during Ewan MacGregor's withdrawal scene.