10 Brilliant Horror Movie Monsters You Were Completely Unprepared For

Now okay, admittedly everyone expected to see a movie monster when watching Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho's 2006 horror The Host.

Unless you were a fan of Twilight author Stephanie Meyer and meant to rent the 2013 romantic sci-fi of the same name, in which case you were likely scarred for life by this South Korean monster movie.

However, The Host's monster is notable less for its design than for its place in the film's narrative. This (brilliantly realised) gigantic carnivorous tadpole wreaks havoc in a packed city in broad daylight when the film has barely begun, completly upending audience expectations.

In comparison, Hollywood stalwart Roland Emmerich made us wait almost an hour for Godzilla, and he wasn’t even scary. The director of 2014's more recent Godzilla reboot took a similar approach to the iconic monster. Thus, The Host ended up a memorably subversive horror flick by blowing away viewers and unmasking its monster in all its glory early in proceedings, instead of nearer the film's denouement.