10 Horror Movies Where The Monster Is Revealed Almost Immediately

Phil Tippett's stop-motion horror masterpiece Mad God finally arrived on our screens in 2021 after a 30-year production that saw Tippett and crews of volunteers put it together in their weekends and downtime while Tippett was working on other, more financially salient projects.

But it was worth the wait, with every shot representing a mastery of the form as an unnamed assassin descends into the earth, through layer upon layer of hellscapes and body horror nightmares, to destroy the fetid world below. However, despite the place existing just to sustain itself, this horrific world and the creatures that inhabit it don't seem to want to go without a fight.

Rather than a single monster, pretty much everything the assassin encounters on his journey is designed to disgust, repel or attack him. Thus, from the very first sequence we see the monsters of Mad God in their full glory, giving and receiving innumerable tortures and debasements. It is with some satisfaction, then, when the assassin's presumed-defective bomb restarts at the film's conclusion, promising an end to these creatures once and for all.