One thing up front: Nobody, no matter how talented an artist they may be, can make a celebrity wax sculpture that isn’t at least a little bit upsetting. Humans are made of flesh and blood and seeing other members of our species rendered as rigid dolls, their familiar features frozen in a dead-eyed mockery of life, will always be hard to see. That said, some wax sculptures are particularly grotesque. Some seem to have been made not by human hands, but by the twisted claws of a demon.
Here, for your viewing “pleasure,” is a collection of these haunting—and maybe haunted—creations.
Wyatt Dunkin has created a Twitter thread archiving “some of the most cursed figures” sold from a Hollywood Wax Museum auction a decade ago. He starts things off with the cast of Seinfeld, their limbs stuck in place as if they’ve just been struck by lightning. (George, notably, is posed so that it looks like he’s about to flash someone by ripping open his jacket with corpse-like fingers.)