10 Horror Movies Where You Don't See The Monster

That Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead isn't a complete laughing stock is nothing short of a miracle given the absolutely ramshackle nature of the movie's production.

That it's a genuinely unsettling and intense horror despite its budgetary constraints is a testament to Raimi's go-for-broke filmmaking above all else - and the steely presence of Bruce Campbell, of course.

Perhaps Raimi's single smartest decision was to keep the malevolent spirits off-screen in their purest form, instead using possessed humans to act as their conduits.

Ingeniously, the demonic entity's movements are occasionally captured from a first-person perspective, meaning we as the audience never see what it looks like - only what it's seeing.

Though the sequels let loose with more tangible demonic mayhem, the low-fi original necessitated a more subtle approach and is in turn the scariest of the trilogy.