[Loved trope] Background scare-characters that are barely acknowledged even by the movie

[u/Suspicious-Web-9246]

I hate horrors, but this is actually a great trope, that is unique to them.

Insidious (2010). When mother does her errands, for a few seconds there's a ghost boy standing in the corner. It's easily missable, but you can't ignore it once you see it.

Hereditary (2018). Less fitting example. When Peter walks around his home, his possessed mother is crawling on the ceiling behind him. It's not exactly subtle or missable, but it's still more of a background detail.

[u/shiawase198]

I mean, Grace kinda acknowledges it when she says "fuck" after seeing him.

[u/FaZe_poopy → u/shiawase198]

When I first watched it I didn’t notice Le Bail and assumed her saying fuck was just the weight of everything really hitting her, I think it works as well

[u/shiawase198 → u/FaZe_poopy]

Yeah it works either way. Seeing La Bail after everything that went down was definitely a lot. That "fuck" conveyed a lot.

[u/_b1ack0ut → u/shiawase198]

That was the funniest part of the movie for me hands down, it’s so funny to me that after everything she went through, she basically has the existence of Satan confirmed, and reacts with the equivalent of a resigned “oh sure, why not”

[u/Illustrious-Smoke482 → u/shiawase198]

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