Rick wrote:

This is the photo that I think I (and Dick, I assume)  recognize in that mag.  Or one just like it, anyway.





You know, we only see that makeup very briefly in the film, but it holds up well under still scrutiny.  Ashton must have built up other portions of Lom's face so as to give the burned-away skin a truly "missing" look.

Certainly more frightening than Claude Rains' makeup ... or Gerard Butler's.