10 Awesome Movie Monsters Only In One Scene
9. Wendigo - Pet Sematary (2019)
Where most every other entry on this list is a positive portrayal of an excellent, memorable monster, there's got to be ONE exception to the rule. And it's the Pet Sematary remake of 2019 that has a monster that appears for literally seconds when it should have been a far larger part of the narrative.
Where the novel focusses on a Wendigo as the supernatural force bringing both animals and people back from the dead in the titular Pet Sematary, in which buried bodies can be resurrected for a terrible price, neither the original movie nor its 2019 counterpart play into this creature's powers particularly attentively. The 2019 movie does best by showing but one glimpse of a sketch in a notepad, but the subsequent shadowy creature watching through the trees when Louis buries his daughter Ellie is all that we get to actually see of it.
It's a blink and you'll miss it moment stipulated by some eerie noises, and feels very far too easily missed for something that's such an integral part of the narrative. Considering how much creepy fun the film could have had with a skeletal deer monster inhabiting the edges of the clearing, this feels like a bit of a cop out.