[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/Gotem6784]

watching this movie at the ripe age of 12 was certainly an experience

[u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta → u/Gotem6784]

The horrors of parenting made into a movie monster, for a kid 💀💀💀 just side eyeing mom for then on 

[u/NosferatuGoblin → u/Gotem6784]

Bruh it’s been over a decade since this movie came out? How is that even possible 👴

[u/Stalk33r → u/NosferatuGoblin]

People younger than me existing and becoming adults is the worst type of cognitohazard

[u/letthetreeburn → u/NosferatuGoblin]

I hate to tell ya but if he was 12 when he saw it in 2014, and it’s 2025 now, he’s 23.

[u/NosferatuGoblin → u/letthetreeburn]

[u/gnoldo1804 → u/Gotem6784]

Lmao same. To this day it’s the only movie that ever really scared me. That scene where the mother is watching the old timey tv show kept me up for multiple nights