10 Actors Who Are UNRECOGNISABLE In Upcoming Horror Movies
These horror movies will show you actors like you've NEVER seen them before.
The horror genre doesn't get nearly enough credit for being a safe space for actors to experiment, to dabble with characters which might be a little trickier to pull off in the more down-to-earth realm of pure dramatic cinema. Horror also affords actors the opportunity to entirely disappear into a given role, to don makeup, costumes, and so on, which make them appear how audiences have never seen them before.
While Hollywood typically wants you to know when a major actor is starring in a role for marketing reasons, there's also something to be said for the sheer WTF factor of realising that an actor is playing a part while being close to unrecognisable.
It's always fun for audiences to discover in real time that they're watching an actor in disguise, concealed under prosthetics and other sneaky makeup tricks, all the more so if the actor changes their physicality and perhaps even their voice to further throw us off the scent. And in the following ten upcoming horror movies, these actors have all deviated from their conventional look, offering up a starkly different style that just might catch you wildly off-guard.
10. Christian Bale - The Bride
Few actors have relished transforming themselves beyond any and all recognition quite like Christian Bale, and though the actor is noted for dramatic weight loss and gain for roles, for his upcoming part as Frankenstein's monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride, it'll be prosthetics doing most of the heavy lifting.
The first sneak peek image from the film shows Bale adorned with considerable facial prosthesis, including a crude stitch navigating the entirety of his forehead, as well as a large tattoo across his chest which appears to read, "hope."
Unsurprisingly, the image was instantly compared to Jared Leto's bold take on The Joker in 2016's Suicide Squad - it's certainly not a subtle design in the slightest, but given the heightened nature of the source material Gyllenhaal is working with, that's certainly not an inherent issue.
Above all else, we know that Christian Bale is going to give 110% to this performance, fearlessly throwing himself headlong into it as he always does.