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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6297010" data-attributes="member: 4937">Don't use them?I'm struggling to think of a prominent horror movie that actually has demons as its primary antagonist, and I'm not coming up with one.  The Exorcist maybe, except if we would be honest, I'm pretty sure it's not the 'demon' that is scary in that movie (if it is scary, I haven't seen it to judge), but the little girl.  Children are creepy, which is why they are prominent fixtures of so much horror whether it is movies like The Poltergeist or The Shining, or video games like F.E.A.R.  When you site The Omen as being scary, I don't think its actually the occult providing the scare - it's the fact that its a creepy little boy.Demons aren't creepy.  They are gross.   I think you'd be able to manage gross with the occult quite well.  You'd probably be able to nauseate your players.  I'd be surprised if you managed scary.  Ghosts are scary.  Werewolves are scary.  Aliens are scary.  Zombies and vampires use to be scary before popular media made them more familiar to most people than say rats, snakes, or centipedes.   If you want to make demons scary, you'd have to make peoples understanding of them more like ghosts, werewolves, or aliens.Going a different way. Children are scary.  Old people are scary.  Some people are scared of spiders, snakes, or darkness.   But almost no one is actually terrified of the occult.</blockquote>