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[[File:nightmare-face beetlejuice 5865.png|link=Beetlejuice (film)|frame|"Can I be scary? Well, whaddya think of ''this''?"]]
The human face is supremely important on a social and biological level. Most of our non-verbal communication comes from reading subtle facial movements, and its importance in our cognitive thinking is best shown in our tendency to see faces in inanimate objects (think of how many times you've looked at a rock face and thought you'd seen two eyes and a mouth). So there's something genuinely disturbing to most people about seeing a face visibly distorted, mutated, or rearranged ... so, naturally, this type of [[Body Horror]] is one of the most common [[Horror Tropes]].
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