10 Horror Movies Where The Monster Is Revealed Almost Immediately

10. Splinter (2008)

When young couple Seth and Polly (Paul Constanzo and Jill Wagner) fall for a confidence trick and get carjacked on the way to a romantic camping holiday, it seems like things can only go one way. Except they don't. A flat tyre leads Seth, Polly and the carjackers - escaped convict Dennis and his drug-addicted girlfriend Lacey (Shea Wigham and Rachel Kerbs) - to an abandoned petrol station, and things go from bad to worse in a way nobody who hadn't seen the trailer or the film title could have predicted.

This is the setup for Toby Wilkins' Splinter, a viral-monster horror movie that goes from road trip to chamber piece in a matter of minutes. And it isn't long until the creepy crawly makes itself known. Never mind that the very thing which blew out the group's tyre in the first place was an infected animal, the petrol station is quickly crawling with infected hosts and body parts, all controlled by a splintery fungus that isn't shy about putting itself out there.

What does it want? To multiply. Why does it want this? Who knows.