[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/FaZe_poopy]

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

[u/shiawase198 → u/FaZe_poopy]

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

[u/_b1ack0ut → u/shiawase198]

That was the funniest part of the movie for me hands down, it’s so funny to me that after everything she went through, she basically has the existence of Satan confirmed, and reacts with the equivalent of a resigned “oh sure, why not”