Ultimate Evil: Difference between revisions

* SKYNET, the [[Big Bad]] from the ''[[Terminator]]'' franchise, has never been depicted on-screen (except for in various non-canonical video games and the Universal Studios Terminator ride). Justified in T3 when it turns out that SKYNET is, in fact, the Internet. An avatar of SKYNET appears as a character in ''Terminator Salvation'', played by {{spoiler|[[Helena Bonham Carter]]}}.

* In ''[[Children of the Corn]]'', He Who Walks Behind The Rows is never openly shown on screen. Presumably, the kids' murderous fanaticism was sufficiently horrifying that seeing the god/demon/spirit/whatever which they followed wasn't deemed necessary.

* Subverted in ''[[Scrooged]]'', where a character actually calls the bluff of the menacing hooded figure that claims to be a supernatural creature, and looks under its robes. The ghost is genuine, and the view is not pretty.

* This was the original intent of Jacques Tourneur in his 1957 ''[[Night of the Demon]]'', preferring to show only smoking footprints and fiery clouds, but [[Executive Meddling]] had a rubber-suit monster put into the ending ''and the beginning''. Still, most critics of this move agree it ultimately doesn't hurt the movie.