40 Actors Made Unrecognizable in Prosthetic Makeup: From Colin Farrell to Jessica Chastain (Photos)

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Boris Karloff as The Monster in “Frankenstein”  (1931)

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Charles Laughton as Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”  (1939)

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John Hurt as John Merrick in “The Elephant Man”  (1980)

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Louis Gosset Jr.as Drac in “Enemy Mine”  (1985)

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John Matuszak as Sloth in “The Goonies”  (1985)

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Tim Curry as The Lord of Darkness in “Legend”  (1985)

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Eric Stoltz as Rocky Dennis in “Mask”  (1985)

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Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in “The Fly”  (1986)

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Eddie Murphy as Saul in “Coming to America”  (1988)

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Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice in “Dick Tracy”  (1990)

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Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch in “The Witches”  (1990)

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John Leguizamo as Spawn in “Spawn”  (1997)

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Jim Carrey as The Grinch in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”  (2000)          

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Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in “Shadow of the Vampire”  (2000)

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Warwick Davis as Griphook in the “Harry Potter” movies  (2001-2011)

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Gary Oldman as Mason Verger in “Hannibal”  (2001)

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Helena Bonham Carter as Ari in “Planet of the Apes”  (2001)

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Julian McMahon as Victor Von Doom in “Fantastic Four”  (2005)

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Nick Stahl as Roark Junior in “Sin City”  (2005)

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Doug Jones as Pale Man in “Pan’s Labyrinth”  (2006)

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Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot in “The Wolfman”  (2010)

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Hugo Weaving as Red Skull in “Captain America”  (2011)

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Alexis Denisof as The Other in “The Avengers”  (2012)

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Christopher Eccleston as Malekith in “Thor: The Dark World”  (2013)

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Famke Janssen as Muriel in “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”  (2013)

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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc in “Suicide Squad”  (2016)

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Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse in “X-men: Apocalypse”  (2016)

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Idris Elba as Krall in “Star Trek: Beyond”  (2016)

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Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise in “It”  (2017)

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Joel Edgerton as Nick Jakoby in “Bright”  (2017)

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Chris Sullivan as Taserface in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”  (2017)

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Michael Rosenbaum as Martinex in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”  (2017)

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Michael James Shaw as Corvus Glaive in “The Avengers: Infinity War”  (2018)

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Tilda Swinton as Dr. Jozef Klemperer in “Suspiria”  (2018)

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David Harbour as Hellboy in “Hellboy”  (2019)

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Ben Mendelsohn as Talos in “Captain Marvel”  (2019)

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Jared Leto as Paolo Gucci in “House of Gucci”  (2021)

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Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp in “Impeachment: American Crime Story”  (2021)

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Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”  (2021)

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Colin Farrell as Penguin in “The Batman”  (2022)