10 Horror Movie Monsters That Almost Looked TOTALLY Different

6. The Pale Man - Pan's Labyrinth

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Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth is a masterpiece of design, as evidenced no better than by the unforgettable appearance of the child-eating monster known as the Pale Man (Doug Jones).

In the final film, the creature is a pale humanoid which wears its eyeballs in its long, spindly hands, but concept artist Sergio Sandoval went through countless iterations of the Pale Man before del Toro settled on one he liked.

Easily the most fascinatingly grotesque of these concepts is the one which leans even more heavily into body horror, with the Pale Man's face re-imagined as a gaping, toothed maw, from which a series of tentacles can seemingly emerge.

Whether for technical reasons or simply his own tastes, del Toro ended up picking the more simple, streamlined final design, but it goes without saying that Sandoval's earlier version was totally haunting in its own right.

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