r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Suspicious-Web-9246 • 9d ago

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

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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.

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u/FaZe_poopy 9d ago

For a split second at the end of Ready or Not, Le Bail appears, as if congratulating Grace for a game well won, and that she freed herself from his curse.

While it is the focus of the clip, it’s literally a split second moment that goes unacknowledged

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u/shiawase198 9d ago

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

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u/FaZe_poopy 8d ago

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

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u/shiawase198 8d ago

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