8 Hidden Movie Monsters (And What They Really Look Like)

A creature barely mentioned in the two film adaptations we were given, and given even less in terms of actual visual screen time, the wendigo of Pet Sematary is about as hidden as they come. Most recently in the 2019 remake, we see just a shift of something strange in the back of the woods, and a page in a book depicting the classic Algonquian legend in all its creepy glory - but the real antagonist of the movie isn't given its dues in any palpable way.

The wendigo, as depicted in Stephen King's source novel, is a force of evil that puppeteers those buried in its 'sour ground'. A nasty spirit born from cannibalism - in this case the Native American tribe's last resort in a harsh winter - it dwells in the swamp where the Pet Sematary lies, possessing the bodies that are buried there to bring them back differently to the people they once were in life. King describes it as so:

"And then, rising behind the deadfall to a titanic height, its skin a cracked reptilian yellow, its eyes great hooded foglamps, its ears not ears at all but massive curling horns, was the Wendigo, a beast that looked like a lizard born of a woman."

The short glimpse in the book is the best we'll get to see, but what it really looks like sounds deliciously nightmarish to behold.