No, Minotaurs and Wyverns in Resident Evil ain't gonna work, but it was an example of what was scary, and what is not scary.
RE6 has the best monsters (Looking at Strelats, Napad, Ustanak, Lepotitsa, Shrieker, Iluzia (the snake), Ubvisto, Gnezdo, and many J'avo, especially the Centipede Armed...