The Psychology of Scary Faces

In an effort to extend the Halloween season, I recently watched the 1960 French horror film Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes without a Face) directed by Georges Franju, and it got me thinking about scary faces. In the world of horror and suspense films, the human face is a common locus of fear and anx

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