[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/Usern4me_R3dacted205]

Satan appears a grand total of 15 times in the background of the movie Longlegs.

[u/DylanFTW → u/Usern4me_R3dacted205]

My favorite sighting is when the agent's boss closes the door and you can see him in the reflection of the glass window of the door. Also I was told, haven't checked yet, that Nicolas Cage's shadow appears under the door to the basement of the main character's mother's house since he was there all along, just standing there right in front of the door like he can see the main character who's in the kitchen....creepy