History UncannyValley / Film

* [[spoiler: Reneesmee]] from [[BreakingDawn Breaking Dawn Part I]]. She's like a moving CreepyDoll.

* [[Spoiler: Reneesmee]] from [[BreakingDawn Breaking Dawn Part I]]. She's like a moving CreepyDoll.

* TimCurry as Pennywise The Dancing Clown in ''{{IT}}''.

* ''TheAdventuresOfTintin'' movie got slammed in several reviews for this, particularly in the design of Tintin himself as opposed to the more cartoony side-characters.

* When living humans are animated via stop-motion, the result is often creepy and unnatural. Doubly so if they are filmed moving deliberately slowly but with the camera running at high speed, so that they move at normal speed on playback but look all twitchy and deranged.

** This kind of twitchy movement in ghost-themed films is probably common enough to be considered a trope in itself.

* {Drive}, starring Ryan Gosling as a character whom is never given a name other than Driver and is more or less human most of the time, but seems able to just turn off all emotions at will [[KickingAssAndTakingNames for the purposes of kicking ass]]. Your mileage may vary about how well that qualifies him for this trope, but when he dons his [[NightmareFuel human-like rubber stunt driving mask]] and practically stares someone into drowning himself in the ocean, this trope is in full swing.

* Driver, starring Ryan Gosling as a character whom is never given a name other than Driver and is more or less human most of the time, but seems able to just turn off all emotions at will [[KickingAssAndTakingNames for the purposes of kicking ass]]. Your mileage may vary about how well that qualifies him for this trope, but when he dons his [[NightmareFuel human-like rubber stunt driving mask]] and practically stares someone into drowning himself in the ocean, this trope is in full swing.

* {{Driver}} features a character whom is never given a name other than Driver and is more or less human most of the time, but seems able to just turn off all emotions at will [[KickingAssAndTakingNames for the purposes of kicking ass]]. Your mileage may vary about how well that qualifies him for this trope, but when he dons his [[NightmareFuel human-like rubber stunt driving mask]] and practically stares someone into drowning himself in the ocean, this trope is in full swing.

* {{Driver}} features a character whom is never given a name other than Driver and is more or less human most of the time, but seems able to just turn off all emotions at will [[KickingAssAndTakingNames for the purposes of kicking ass]]. YourMileageMayVery about how well that qualifies him for this trope, but when he dons his [[NightmareFuel human-like rubber stunt driving mask]] and practically stares someone into drowning himself in the ocean, this trope is in full swing.

** The people who produced the film adaptation of ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' say, in the DVD extras, that the reason they changed Voldemort's eyes from red (as they were in the book), to looking quite like your everyday eyes, is that "if you don't leave in a huge part of the human in him, he's not going to scare you." At first, this troper didn't like the change when he saw the movie in theaters, but when he heard that explanation, he realized they had a real point.

* TheAdventuresOfTinTin movie got slammed by several magazine and news paper review seemingly for this.

* Disney's ''{{Enchanted}}'' features, of all things, the dragon version of the Uncanny Valley, with a villainess whose face is just a little strangely... well, ''animated.''

* In the second Hellboy movie, the baby that Film/{{Hellboy}} rescues has a CG-rendered face that falls deep into the Uncanny Valley. Justified in that there was no way for a ''real'' baby to be used in a scene with stunts like that!

** His skin is pale and lifeless.

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

* In the second Hellboy movie, the baby that Hellboy rescues has a CG-rendered face that falls deep into the Uncanny Valley. Justified in that there was no way for a ''real'' baby to be used in a scene with stunts like that!

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

-->'''Loomis''': I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no, uh, conscience, no understanding and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... ''evil''.

* ''ResidentEvilDegeneration''. The character animations were stiff, and the lip synching was not of the best quality.

* Similarly, the Oompa Loompas in ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (the 2006 version at least), they are all inhumanly small and all played by DeepRoy. Perhaps averted with the same characters in the 1971 film since orange skin and green eyelashes are far enough away from human to not fall into this category.

* ''TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' had incredibly creepy rubber masks worn by midgets that were supposed to be the titular characters. As their mouths weren't even capable of closing all the way, let alone natural movement, the effect is far more unsettling than any of the grotesque imagery the trading cards that the movie was based on could produce.

* Many of the human characters except for Penny in ''{{Bolt}}'' have a a pinched, waxen look to their faces ranging from slightly weird to just plain creepy.

* In ''JackFrost'' (no, not the film about the killer snowman), MichaelKeaton is reincarnated as [[http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6673/jackfrostl.jpg this horrifying thing]]. The way it looked and moved was NightmareFuel to many viewers; RogerEbert called it "the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects."

** The biggest problem with this is at the beginning of the movie, we see a flashback of Flynn while he was young which used Clu's CG facial model and it's exactly the same. This troper compared the model to Bridges in the original movie and has realized the problem is in the eyes and eyebrows. Clu (And flashback Flynn) have a solid immovable brow and their eyes almost never widen the way Jeff Bridges do and did in the original film. The lack of emoting is the biggest problem with the CG model. That's fine for Clu, but makes no sense for the younger version of Flynn!
*** YourMileageMayVary, however. This troper sat through the whole movie and it didn't look weird at all except for one close-up of Clu.

* ''MarsAttacks'' had two martians disguise as a woman. It was deeply in the uncanny valley, but it didn't bother the guy who was hitting on her. [[spoiler: Until the martians bit off his finger]].

* The new trailer for the upcoming ''Film/TinTin'' film is...well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ua_4ajpP58 eeeeeeeurgh]]