Why sideways? I can make two guesses based on things I've seen:
It could be his orientation from his point of origin (he's obviously not fully here, which is why he's stock-still); I noticed that hobgoblin demons exiting a hyperdimensional portal located on the floor stand horizontal at first. I was thrown through one in my bedroom ceiling as a kid also horizontally, meaning that wherever I was going (and wherever this demon was coming from), the orientation there relative to our vertical is horizontal.
He's blending with an object (although with what, I don't know); in order to align the shape and color of his face with the object, and to position his facial features over similar contours on the object's surface.
Painted face demons not uncommon, called 'Juggalo demons'
Demons that paint their faces (or that have painted faces are not uncommon). The first painted-face demon I captured on video was shown in VIDEOS | Juggalo Demon (finally) caught in-the-flesh on video, and was dubbed a Juggalo demon:
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| The profile of a violence-inducing Juggalo Demon, the frequent companion of young males already predisposed towards (and fascinated by) acts of carnage |
