10 Horror Movies Where You Don't See The Monster

10. Hereditary

Ari Aster's sublime directorial debut Hereditary revolves around a bereaved family who are terrorised in their home by an increasingly malevolent supernatural presence.

It's revealed at the end of the film that the Graham family has actually been targeted by a coven, of which protagonist Annie's (Toni Collette) deceased mother was a member.

The various tragedies befalling Annie and co. are part of a ploy by the coven to find a suitable male host for Paimon, the demon they worship.

At the film's terrifying conclusion, the host turns out to be Annie's doomed son Peter (Alex Wolff), who is incapacitated and unable to fend off Paimon as he takes possession of his weakened body and mind.

Yet Aster smartly never once lets us see Paimon in any sort of tangible form, only as drawings in a book, as he possesses the various members of the family, and perhaps as the mysterious blue light occasionally projected in their presence.

The fact that Paimon is basically hiding in plain sight for so much of the movie only makes him that much creepier, and no guy-in-suit antics or pitch-shifted demonic growling could ever match that.