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* Disney's ''[[Enchanted (Film)|Enchanted]]'' features, of all things, the dragon version of the Uncanny Valley, with a villainess whose face is just a little strangely... well, ''animated''.

* Darla Dimple from ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]'' looks normal (if [[Tastes Like Diabetes|disgustingly cute]]) as [http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/CDDMSheets/DarlaMS01.gif animated], but [http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/Maquettes/DarlaTurnaround.jpg as a physical maquette], not so much.

* The Spielberg movie ''[[AI Artificial Intelligence (Film)|AI Artificial Intelligence]]'' turned the Uncanny Valley on its head by having actual actors play the [[Ridiculously Human Robots|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.

* The Spielberg movie ''[[AI Artificial Intelligence (Film)|AI Artificial Intelligence]]'' turned the Uncanny Valley on its head by having actual actors play the [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|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.

** Not to mention the fact that most robots looked a tad too perfect, with smooth skin, perfect hairline and so on. They were sliding deeper into the valley the more you looked at them.

* The Dark Seekers of ''[[I Am Legend]]'' were impressively done in terms of integrating film footage with their movements, but whenever you got a clean look at them, they were just enough [[Conspicuous CG]] to throw off the belief.

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** Though here it is deliberately [[Invoked Trope]].

** During the scene where they're using polyjuice potion to create duplicate Harrys, some of the intermediate states are quite disturbing. Fortunately, they're not on screen for long.

** The people who produced the film adaptation of ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and ~~The~~ Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]'' 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."

** The people who produced the film adaptation of ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]'' 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."

* Oddly enough, the more human looking Midians in ''[[Nightbreed]]'' are creepier than the ones who look just plain demonic. A perfect example is the guy with the crescent shaped head.

* Jeff Bridges' CGIed face in ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron Legacy]]'' fell into this category for a lot of viewers.