10 Most Underwhelming Horror Movie Monster Reveals

10. Xavier Cambarro - Dagon

From 2001 comes the Spanish movie Dagon, an adaptation of a work by everyone’s favourite problematic author of gothic horror, H. P. Lovecraft.

The film follows the fortunes of four friends who come across a coastal town after their boat is destroyed in a storm. They discover that, many years ago, the townsfolk began worshipping a demonic sea god named Dagon and, as a result, the settlement is now populated by half-fish, half-human creatures.

You don’t want to know how those got made. 

The big reveal comes at the end of the movie when Paul, one of the victims, comes face-to-face with Xavier Cambarro, the grandson of the original priest of Dagon. Actually, that should be face-to-fin, as Xavier has morphed into a hideous nightmare of man and sea creature. 

Whilst something like this might look great today, this film simply didn’t have the means or the money to make Xavier look good. His effects are tacky at best and distracting at worst. He’s meant to be this feared semi-mystical being, but instead, he comes across more like a last-minute Hallowe’en job. 

He should have never come out of the water.