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20 Terror-Filled Portraits

From Undead Burlesque Zombies to Demented Portraiture

— May 28, 2012 — Pop Culture
These terror-filled portraits are sure to make you cringe and reflexively draw back in a flurry of emotions including fear and disgust. The days of structured, mundane and ordinary portraits are over; they have now been replaced instead by bizarre and unsightly representations.

Families are no longer obliged to dress in formal attire and don picture perfect smiles, because that's not of importance in today's version of portraiture. The more grotesque, unappealing and ghastly the better -- apparently, individuals no longer care about how they appear.

Portraits are now becoming more distorted, deranged and the individuals depicted in them have become frightfully unrecognizable. Now you buy portraits that show you and your loved ones as flesh-eating zombies, a swirly-faced fien, or in historically updated imagery. Unattractive portraits are an awesome addition to your mantle and are a guaranteed conversation piece.
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Celebrity Pet Portraiture
Celebrity Pet Portraiture
Ruth Marcus Combines Your Cat and Favorite Famous Person
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Unflattering Expression Portraits
Unflattering Expression Portraits
Lily Mae Martin Exclusively Renders People Making Funny Faces
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Gritty Graffiti-Grafted Portraits
Gritty Graffiti-Grafted Portraits
These Mitar Simikic Photographs are Deliberately Vandalized
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Warped Visage Portraiture
Warped Visage Portraiture
Kohei Akiba Paints Distorted Faces in a Simplistic & Haunting Manner
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Kaleidoscopic Visage Visuals
Kaleidoscopic Visage Visuals
Chamo San Renders Abstract Faces with Puzzling Aesthetics
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Marbly Smeared Paint Portraits
Marbly Smeared Paint Portraits
Philippe Pasqua Renders Faces in an Impressionistic Fashion
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Hyperreal Humanist Portraiture
Hyperreal Humanist Portraiture
This Art from Heikki Leis is Expressive and Eccentric
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Demented Portraiture
Demented Portraiture
New Retrospective 'George Condo: Mental States' Highlights Odd Portraits
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Ethereally Seductive Mixed Media
Ethereally Seductive Mixed Media
Chris Duffy Creates Expressive and Daring Feminine Portraits
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Undead Burlesque Beauties
Undead Burlesque Beauties
French Artist Angel Roy Zombifies Pretty Pin-Ups
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Scary Swirly-Faced Portraiture
Scary Swirly-Faced Portraiture
Yuko Nasu Depicts People with Distorted & Eerie Visages
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Squashed Surreal Editorials
Squashed Surreal Editorials
Neil Bedford Photographs the Neighborhood Spring/Summer Collection
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Fractal Face Photography
Fractal Face Photography
These Ewa Moss 'We are Different' Shoots are Distinguished
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Twisted Beauty Portraits
Twisted Beauty Portraits
The Rodrigo Braga Photographic Works are Alluring and Unnerving
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Haunting Historical Portraits
Haunting Historical Portraits
The ‘Faces of the Past' Series is Human and Visceral
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Grotesque Watercolor Portraits
Grotesque Watercolor Portraits
Akira Beard Blends Complementary Hues with Bizarre Features
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Feline-Faced Portraiture
Feline-Faced Portraiture
Rebeca Losada Renders Human Subjects with Cat Visages
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Undead Family Portraits
Undead Family Portraits
Roisin McAuley Zombified Illustrations Spice Up Photos
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Gale-Force Wind Portraits
Gale-Force Wind Portraits
The Blow Job 2012 Series by Tadao Cern Morphs Faces
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Spooky Haunted Images
Spooky Haunted Images
This Series by Lucy Reynolds is Mysterious and Spooky
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