12 Awesome Horror Movie Monsters We Didn't Get Enough Of

Movie monsters are a tricky breed—on the one hand, if we see too much of them, they’re bound to become laughable and any fear they prompted from us will go out the window. Look no further than the famous case of legendary helmer Steven Spielberg working around a malfunctioning shark prop on his 1975 blockbuster creature feature Jaws for a story of a filmmaker’s attempts to hide his less-than-stellar monster proving more effective than any actual onscreen reveal could have been.

That said, as 1957’s classic supernatural chiller The Night of the Demon proves, often times revealing the monster at all serves only to deflate tension and let the audience down. As such, most filmmakers attempt to shroud their horror movie villains in darkness as much as possible—even when they’re brilliantly designed and frankly, we’d love to see a little more of them.

With that in mind, here are twelve movie monsters plucked from the depths of horror obscurity which we wished we could have seen more of—sequel-hungry executives, take note.

Scream helmer Wes Craven may be a late, great horror legend, and the man behind everything from The Last House on the Left to A Nightmare on Elm Street more than earned his fair share of Shocker-style duds (hello there, 2005’s Cursed).

That said, the director’s 2010 return to supernatural horror My Soul to Take is a particular disappointment not only because of its stellar opening sequence, but because the flick wastes an all-time great slasher monster design in its convoluted and over-complicated runtime.

The hulking, bird-masked Ripper is a formidable and terrifying presence throughout the flick, but we simply never get a chance to see much of him as the interminable teen drama takes over much of this flick’s needlessly dense plot.