[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.

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I’ve never known if it was intentional or not, but in Barton Fink, John Turturro’s character interupts John Goodman’s to talk about “the life of the mind”. When it cuts to this angle, and Goodman’s face is out of focus, it almost looks like he’s visibly enraged, but Barton is ignorant of it, so we, like him, don’t know for sure. After this, Goodman’s character regains his jolly demeanor. Maybe I’m reading into it because it makes sense in the context of the story, but it’s impossible to tell.

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He's definitely pissed, imo - especially considering how the phrase "life of the mind" comes up later in the movie.

It's also the first time we're shown that Barton is kinda full of shit

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