8 Video Games That Cut Truly Terrifying Enemies

The Silent Hill franchise isn't exactly one that's lacking horrific creatures ready to set up shop in your mind, but even this glorious focus on psychological horror isn't exempt from having to make cuts here and there from time to time.

That being said, I think of all the enemies on this list, the Mutated Chickens that were planned for the original game were easily the strangest and most intriguing. After all, I said to myself, how scary can a chicken in a video game actually be?

And then I saw the renders.

Ye Gods I did not want to see something like that. Elongated, emaciated, and oozing with otherworldly terror, the Mutated Chicken is truly the stuff of nightmares, and worst of all it's actually just part of a selection of horrible animals given the Silent Hill treatment that were cut from the game.

Frogs, Manta Rays, and even a bloody Ostrich were planned for the game but cut at some point in time. With each looking horrendous and moving in janky inorganic ways, they truly would have added a slice of surreal fear to the mix. Then again Silent Hill was already so full of this that it's likely why this menagerie of monsters was left on the cutting room floor.