20 Horror Movie Characters We NEVER See
We never set eyes upon these horror movie characters.
Horror movies are typically concerned with unnerving the viewer by any means necessary, and what can be easier than doing it through visual means?
By showing the audience something inherently unsettling or disturbing, a film can push their buttons and ensure they never forget what they're seeing.
But horror can also stem just as much from what we don't see - after all, Steven Spielberg's Jaws is one of the greatest horror films of all time despite the shark only being featured briefly throughout.
Yet these 20 horror movies all one-upped that by featuring prominent, notable characters who are never actually physically seen once within the film itself.
Perhaps they're ghostly villains who are invisible, entities capable of possessing human hosts, or even heroic characters who are only spoken about but never seen for one reason or another.
Whatever the circumstances, these 20 notable characters are all never seen in their respective movies, no matter the often huge impact they have on the story overall.
It's a testament to the filmmaking that these characters all feel "present" even though we're never afforded an opportunity to actually look at them...
20. The Child Narrator - Weapons
Zach Cregger's stunning new horror film Weapons is bookended by narration from a young girl who provides crucial context for the beginning and end of the story.
And yet, this girl is never actually featured as an on-screen character, and the film makes little effort to explain who she might actually be.
The voiceover is provided by young actress Scarlett Sher, who is credited only as "Narrator," and while some have understandably speculated that the girl may very well attend Maybrook Elementary School where all the children disappear, Sher herself doesn't seem to appear in the movie, not even as a background artist.
The narration makes it clear that the girl is a local to the town of Maybrook, and Cregger's original script refers to her as an 11-year-old girl called "Maddie," but that's about it.
And honestly, it's probably better off this way - Cregger's film delights in its eerie ambiguities and trusting the audience to figure things out for themselves, so why mess that up by stripping all the mystery away?