Exclusive | Why that Elizabeth Holmes Netflix clip is so excruciating, according to expert who spent years watching her: Not human

It’s a face that will make your blood run cold.Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has pushed herself back into the public consciousness with the most disconcerting smile imaginable in the trailer for a new Netflix documentary secretly filmed about her life.And there’s a reason people having such a visceral reaction, according to a body language expert who called her behavior “psychopathic” and “almost not human.”Holmes’ wild-eyed, unblinking gaze and repeated insistence that she’s “not deceiving” filmmakers has sparked a flurry of online commentary since a trailer for the doc, titled “You Can See Everything,” was released after its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend. The minute-long, close-up clip features an awkward exchange between the Silicon Valley scammer and Canadian comic Nathan Fielder – during which Holmes’ intense stare is impossible to miss.  “She’s got laser-focused eye contact, wide-eyed, no blinking – not even a little blinking…It’s like a stalker stare, which is what everybody is talking about,” body language expert Susan Constantine told The Post. “A lot of psychopaths do that because they’re trying to be convincing.

She has the raised eyebrows, staring eyes and wide-open smile, which is also what we call ‘dooping delight,’” Constantine said. The phrase refers to “that smile a person gets if they are pulling over a big whopper and they feel like they’re being successful with it,” she explained. “Natural expressions don’t freeze on the face – they are on and off…which is how I know it’s performative,” Constantine said. Holmes’ eerie eye contact and slight head nods throughout the clip suggest “she’s trying to persuade” Fielder of what she’s saying and could even be interpreted as intimidation tactics, the expert said. Taken altogether, Holmes’ questionable body language and bizarre choice of words reveal “massive clusters of deception,”...