20 Horror Movie Characters We NEVER See

The original 1951 The Thing from Another World is decidedly tamer than John Carpenter's 1982 remake, with many of the deaths at the hands of the plant-based alien creature taking place off-screen.

This is true of two doctor characters, Olson and Auerbach, who are said to have been discovered hanging from the greenhouse with their throats cut and their bodies drained of blood by the alien.

But while it's not terribly surprising that a 1951 film doesn't depict The Thing's rampage as graphically as Carpenter's remake did three decades later, what is more surprising here is that we never actually see Olson or Auerbach at all.

That's right - we never meet these characters before their demise, and so the audience likely isn't inspired to care much about them being killed. 

Even if the film couldn't show them dying, it might've been worth giving them a scene or two on-screen before dispatching them, especially as they're the two only human casualties in the entire movie.