Follow TV Tropes

This is based on opinion. Please don't list it on a work's trope example list.

Following

Nightmare Fuel / Face/Off

Go To

  • The very beginning of the film, playing on the fear of Outliving One's Offspring and the inability to protect your child, though no fault of your own.
  • Seeing Castor with his face still missing after he's come to and is watching the video of the surgery. A couple of quick side-shots, and then a frontal reflected in Dr. Walsh's glasses.
    Castor: Take one goddamn guess.
    • After Castor wakes up and realizes his face is gone, he makes these...unearthly moans and groans. While it's probably supposed to be Played for Laughs, they are quite freaky sounding.
  • The titular procedure itself is rather Squicky, especially if you are squeamish. Tito in particular doesn't seem to enjoy it very much.
  • After Castor gets Archer's face transplanted on him, he and his two cronies burn down the Walsh Institute to destroy all of the evidence. The quick flashbacks of Castor's men setting the fire are made even scarier by the fact that you are shown Archer's friend Tito, Dr. Walsh, and Miller sitting on the floor, bound, gagged, struggling to scream as Leo and Lars pour gasoline all over them, which means that they were basically burned alive. Even more unsettling is the cheery tone Castor uses as he tells Archer about what he's done and rubs defeat in Archer's face.
  • After taking one of Dietrich's drugs, Archer-as-Troy goes to the bathroom and gives us one of the creepiest looking Slasher Smiles in movie history.

Top