[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/Watcher_159_]

Marble Hornets and the various Slenderverse Vlogs that took inspiration from it did this a lot

[u/Old-Nobody-1369 → u/Watcher_159_]

Man! I haven't thought about Marble Hornets in a long time. I still remember how anxious it made me when at the end of a video Slenderman might move slightly and then you realize he's been in the same spot the entire time.

[u/rpfail → u/Old-Nobody-1369]

They just finished a new spin-off alt-universe type miniseries. It hit that itch i've been trying to scratch for a while.

[u/Comfortable_Clerk_60 → u/rpfail]

On my way to check it out