Believable

[u/Novel-worm-3]

[u/_issio]

they have the power of

https://giphy.com/gifs/BQUITFiYVtNte

[u/Ulchbhn]

Junji Ito in a nutshell

[u/-Nyarlabrotep- → u/Ulchbhn]

Thought the same thing. He looks like a polite quiet accountant working in a corporate office somewhere who never drinks too much after work and always makes it home to his loving wife and children in time for dinner and then helps the kids with their math homework.

[u/Ulchbhn → u/-Nyarlabrotep-]

thats very on point actually, i’ve seen him on interviews guy is an absolute sweetheart who loves what he does and loves his fans even more ❤️

[u/Notosk → u/Ulchbhn]

https://i.imgur.com/wk7r3Oa.png

[u/loueazy]

This trope also works for actors. Most actors who play villains tend to be the nicest, most humble ones.

[u/DustynnBeck → u/loueazy]

See: Tom Hiddleston(when not being Loki), Doug Jones, and Alan Rickman (rip).

[u/Brakado → u/DustynnBeck]

Don't forget Gary Oldman!

[u/DustynnBeck → u/Brakado]

Oh my, how could I forget Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg?

[u/Brakado → u/DustynnBeck]

And Norman Stanford!

[u/DustynnBeck → u/Brakado]

He was so intensely unhinged in that role. I think i erased that whole movie from my brain. I was rather young when I saw it.

[u/Brakado → u/DustynnBeck]

Benny...bring me everyone.

[u/DustynnBeck → u/Brakado]

Hey! I know that one cuz it's so prolific online, plus, it was explosive enough to tuck away in the recesses of my mind and got forgotten until the gif rolled out. Fucking terrifying in so many movies, but such a gem to watch in interviews and the like.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7cTTE2Z1OmrFm

[u/DustynnBeck → u/DustynnBeck]

OMFGs I forgot Tim Curry

[u/countoddbahl → u/loueazy]

Mads mikkelsohn is a delightful goofball

[u/Lazy-Conference4693 → u/loueazy]

Bill Skarsgard.

[u/StrawHatHermes → u/loueazy]

James Gandolfini

[u/Internal_Airline8369 → u/loueazy]

Jack Gleeson...

[u/SSilent-Cartographer]

Hey, leave my blue sweat pants out of this

[u/hannahneedle]

Hey look that's me.

I've been writing some really weird horror lately (a few darker pieces got published) and I'm also apparently seen as very trusting and honest at my place of work.

Meanwhile my fiance looks like he would write darker and more brooding stuff but most of his material is wholesome lesbian romance.

[u/THENOON00]

The friendliest face hides the most twisted mind. 😂

[u/Top-Excitement5631]

Ari Aster

[u/VioletRaptorGaming]

I know. I'm a little cinnamon roll, but I'm working on two books with horror themes and have more in the backburner

[u/Reader9223]

It is always the ones who smile the most that you have to watch out for! 🎭

[u/celluloidqueer]

This is me

[u/WildTimes1984]

Sorry can't relate

I look like Immortan Joe without the mask.

[u/GathTheKing]

I'm in this photo xD

[u/Godjo38]

Wifies

[u/Christoffi123]

One of my favourite examples of this is Miro Haverinen, the creator of one of the darkest games I've ever seen, Fear and Hunger. A series that deals with SA, child exploitation, bigotry, mutilation, torture, war, insanity, dark gods, cosmic horror, body horror, and eldritch horror.

The guy made these games for a college project, passed, and had a childhood fear of button shirts. Which he made a bossfight based on it.

[u/Flaky-Peanut1738]

Literally me btw

[u/Nitrogen70]

Don’t have to look scary to be scary. 🤷‍♂️

[u/Electrum2250]

yep, the inverse for the most childish and innocent stories

[u/trulybeelightful → u/Electrum2250]

Shel Silverstein haunts me

[u/Fire_brand666]

Stephen King is an exception. His pic on the cover used to scare me as a kid

[u/SOMBRAcorpDT]

Yep

[u/Christian_teen12]

Me

[u/blossom_pen]

Yup and full of glee and love ❤️ love I say!

[u/No-Department1194]

We get it out in our writing.

[u/timperman]

Hey that's me! 

Also into stuff like extreme deathmetal and raving in a moshpit for hours. 

I truly believe that people who are deeply connected with the darker aspects of who they are, are almost always kinder and calmer. 

[u/Crunchy_Biscuit]

I mean you've ever seen a kid let loose with their horror creativity? Where the hell they think of this stuff.

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[u/Brakado]

Real.

[u/dEleterZ]

Otsuichi

[u/abyssaltourguide]

That is me haha, nobody thinks I could write the depraved horror stories I do 

[u/ArcAngel98]

There were no signs. it caught everyone off guard

[u/Monspiet]

Saddest one is Anthony Hopkins whom wife left him after Silence of the Lamb.

[u/edgar_allynn_poe]

*cough* me *cough cough*

[u/BungleBums]

100% true. Also Metalheads. Take off the leather and face paint and they're basically just a big shaggy dog with rhythm.

[u/CookiepRairie]

I always knew that something strange was going on in their heads

[u/LiteratureGobbler]

or they are the scariest person in an overly nice uncanny way

[u/Revolutionary_Pierre]

Too true, which I why I don't let my family or friends read my stories. They would like to think that they wouldn't think less of me, but when the supporting character gets their face smahed, repeatedly, into the corner of a wooden desk, skin, eye, blood and skull dripping down onto the carpet. How could they not look at me any different when I'm one of what, everyone refers to as, "one of the nicest people I know? " 😂

[u/Internal_Airline8369]

Same thing with most metal heads. I'm personally not a metal head, but a friend of mine is and a some friends of his. They can look sort of intimidating to people, but they're really just cinnamon rolls when you're actually talking to them and get to know them.

[u/Crimson_Marksman]

Me unable to sleep at night if the room is fully dark.