8 Creepiest Horror Movie Monsters In Disguise

5. The Witch - The Wretched

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All sorts of horror movie monsters like to make themselves known before blending into the background and awaiting their next meal. The Thing is a great example, and whilst the assimilating alien at the heart of that film embodies the disguised monster trop exceptionally well, the more recent witch-based horrors of The Wretched serve as a more unusual pick.

This is a horrible, decaying monster that isn't waiting patiently for her time to pop up in a narrative. No, this witch wants us to know she's there, hiding out in the bodies of those that she preys upon, only showing her true form when laying the scares on thick.

Her disguise might not be convincing to an audience since everything organic dies around her - and you know, since we see her get on into the neighbour early on - but it's frustratingly difficult for the characters to get a hold on the supernatural threat she embodies as she hops between forms. It's only when getting a face full of her skeletal, zombified, decrepit form that the true extent of her possessive powers really hits home.

Sometimes knowing something is wearing a disguise only makes us that much more desperate for it to stay behind the mask.

 
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