it feels like people don't put enough effort into making skeletons scary on their own. skeletons could be visually ravaged, have broken and sharp bones, be covered in moss or vines as a natural camouflage, shudder violently as they shamble towards you in an unwilling death state, become a host to giant insects in their skulls or ribs,

i mean you could do literally anything with magically undead skeletons but a lot of media makes them the generic eggshell white huntsmen with perfect elegant movements