After celebrating all things horror for so many years, it takes a lot to creep me out. I can wander through any Halloween horror maze without being startled at all, I can watch the scariest horror films without the slightest feeling of unease, but there's something about the stare of the model on the new Twix Halloween costume package that sends chills right down my spine. It's a piercing stare that you simply can't ignore. Every time I walk past it in a Halloween shop, I get a feeling that somebody just died... or somebody's about to. If those eyes could tell a story, it'd be one of murders so grisly, the police covered them up to shelter us from the knowledge that there's such a horrible monster living in our society. Let's see you try to "chew it over with Twix" now.
Sometimes that Twix girl, she looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about the Twix girl... she's got lifeless eyes. Blue eyes. Like a model's eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until she bites ya, and those blue eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The world turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', she comes in and she... rips you to pieces.
Wampa Stompa (Guest) on 10/14/2010 6:39 am
She's eating him... and then... she's gonna eat me... OH MY GOOOOOOOOO-
Hero (Guest) on 10/14/2010 7:01 am
"Paul, my little ceramic penguin in
the study always faces due south."
-[Misery 1990]
Kitsa on 10/14/2010 7:32 am
ljdarten on 10/14/2010 8:06 am
eh, I have seen much more lifeless horrifying pictures of model smiles.
Actually, if you look at a lot of pictures of someone smiling in an ad and really try to see it objectively you can tell the smile is forced, especially on children. They can look really creepy.
I think advertising has desensitized us to fake smiles/excitement/etc. it's surprising how obviously fake some of it looks once you see it.
stonewar on 10/14/2010 10:43 am
As anyone who has ever watch America's next top model will tell you: Dead eyes are a no no and the sign of a poor model. Which is explains why she is modeling crappy halloween costumes and not on the cover of Vogue.
Shadowdancer21b on 10/14/2010 12:39 pm
Those empty eyes are one of the faces of Hell.
al_frank2000 on 10/14/2010 4:34 pm
Very true! Excellent observation!
A Bad Enough Dude on 10/14/2010 4:50 pm
No!! No!!! Noooooo!!!!
ColdFusion (Guest) on 10/14/2010 6:37 pm
Cor, look at 'em! They're not even facing the same way.. she's a tad walleyed.. I wonder if it's photoshop gone wrong..
Ferrit on 10/14/2010 8:48 pm
...I'll never put on a Twixjacket again.
HowardC on 10/14/2010 10:30 pm
Saw this costume the other day and I was equally horrified. Glad it wasn't just me.
Julio on 10/14/2010 11:51 pm
Scary as hell. I'll never trust blue eyed women ever again.
Mister Tea on 10/15/2010 1:53 pm
Eh, I'd still hit it. I just wouldn't make eye contact.
kentucky_fried_negger on 10/15/2010 8:24 pm
I think that woman is a fake. No one has ever had such a scary stare EVER.
eL GUAPO on 10/16/2010 12:27 am
ROG..This woman is no woman at all...she is either a Stepford or a reptilian alien from " V "! my theory is most of these so called Halloween models on these cheesy costumes are part of a bigger organization to lure us into their plan of synchronised destruction, similar to the scenario in Halloween 3. We must not wear these costumes of death!
Wiffles on 10/16/2010 7:17 am
must be one of those modeling androids
Kat on 10/16/2010 9:09 am
Twenty-five dollars for it?
That's the scariest part.
Spleen (Guest) on 10/16/2010 7:34 pm
Her stare is actually horrific. Eugh, it's not even like a passport blank stare, it's a billion times worse. It's like she wants to devour my soul. Shudder! I think I'll just go and checked I locked my appartment door.
Ronin S on 10/16/2010 10:24 pm
It doesn't seem 'fake' to me so much as 'pharmaceutically enhanced' or 'crazy.
I've been working on this website for kids for my boss and have been trying to explain to him how fake and creepy all the kids in our stock images are. They came off this shitty CD and all their smiles are fake and forced like this.
Dammit, we need pictures of real people! Kids with eating cookies with dirt on their fingers. And ladies who don't look like frakkn' Barbie!
My boss just thinks I'm weird.
Misty (Guest) on 10/17/2010 4:37 am
"And, you know, the thing about the Twix girl... she's got lifeless eyes. Blue eyes. Like a model's eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until she bites ya, and those blue eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The world turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', she comes in and she... rips you to pieces."
Rog, make a YouTube video of you sayin' all that. With a picture of the Twix girl in it. And the appropriate music from Jaws. It'll be brilliant.
And yes, she is slightly wall eyed (I think. Could be Photoshop fail). Not as bad as a girl in one of my high school classes (like, I'm amazed she could even see at all bad), but still. And yeah, I've noticed how fake so many smiles look too. That's why whenever I have my picture taken and need to be smiling, I'll think of something that'll actually bring a grin to my face.
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