10 Horror Movies Where You Don't See The Monster

Cult classic horror The Borderlands is an especially diverting entry into the found footage subgenre, following two men sent by the Vatican to investigate reports of paranormal activity in a recently re-opened 13th century Devon church.

Per its low budget, the film has a vested interest in subtlety and showing the viewer as little as possible, ensuring audiences remain as skeptical as our protagonists for much of the runtime.

But even when the situation becomes increasingly dire amid whispers of pagan ritual sacrifices, director Elliot Goldner doesn't show much that can't be explained rationally, and never once gives audiences a clear glimpse of the presence terrorising Brother Deacon (Gordon Kennedy) and Gray (Robin Hill).

The film's unforgettable final sequence shows Deacon and Gray descending into a passage which begins to constrict and emit a digestive enzyme, seeming to imply the two have somehow wound up inside the literal belly of a beast, leaving them to be consumed.

But we never see anything beyond the eerily undulating walls of the apparent beast's stomach moving, its exact nature left entirely ambiguous as the film reaches its grim end.