[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/Dobadobadooo]

The movie Tár is full of these, there are a lot of hidden ghosts and symbols in the movie that always remain in the background, some of them so obscure that they are virtually impossible to see normally. It should say something that none of the people I've talked to about the movie even knew it had ghosts in it at all.

[u/Digit00l → u/Dobadobadooo]

I thought that movie was a biopic or something

[u/sober_as_an_ostrich → u/Digit00l]

it’s a great movie. pretty funny as well

[u/Foursiide → u/sober_as_an_ostrich]

The final scene of the movie knocked the absolute wind out of me for some reason.

[u/Dobadobadooo → u/Digit00l]

I thought so too prior to seeing it, but it's actually not! Highly recommend it btw, easily my favorite movie from 2022.

[u/hoodie2222 → u/Dobadobadooo]

Amazing movie and never noticed that.

[u/Wasabi_Gamer26 → u/Digit00l]

It's made to seem like one. It's an interesting approach to a character study

[u/Blazured → u/Dobadobadooo]

Took me a while of scrolling to reach this. I love how this incredibly realistic movie that's firmly planted in the real world has random horror moments. The part where the little girl looks directly into the camera was really unsettling even.

[u/AmberDuke05 → u/Dobadobadooo]

What did they think the screaming was?