10 Most Underrated Horror Monsters In Video Games

10. Wallmaster - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

...F**k the f**king Wallmaster and the wall it rode in on.

Ahem. Apologies for the salty language, but Wallmasters were the bane of many a nineties kid - specifically, those who played Ocarina of Time.

Ocarina may be the least scary game on this list, as you'd expect from a game rated E for Everyone. However, like all good children's stories, there's a dark undercurrent running through the whole experience. From the apocalyptic tone of the future timeline to the haunting shriek of a Redead, this is a game that clearly believed in the power of horror to tell it' story. And nowhere is that horror more apparent than in the Shadow Temple.

As the name implies, the Shadow Temple is the darkest of OoT's dungeons both literally and metaphorically. Amplifying the sense of dread felt within its walls are the dreaded Wallmasters - disembodied hands that fall from the sky to pluck the player and warp them back to the start of the dungeon. As a child, the anxiety induced by these b****ds was torturous. Tiptoeing around the dungeon, waiting for them to silently drop from the sky, was a special kind of fear that was only amplified by Link's agonized scream if one managed to catch him.

Wallmasters are very tame by today's standards - they've certainly been replaced as gaming's premier hand-based horrors by Elden Ring's Fingercreepers - but given how much anxiety they caused back in the day, they deserve their day in the sun. Even if it's only so we can see the creepy gits coming this time...