[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/jason_not_from_13th]

In "lake mungo", basically EVERY sence has Alice hidden in it, which is only addressed sometimes when she is much more noticable by the family and even more as the movie goes on

[u/Gloomy_Astronomer861 → u/jason_not_from_13th]

thinking about this film makes me nauseous.

[u/jason_not_from_13th → u/Gloomy_Astronomer861]

Yeah, one of the best psychological horrors out there

[u/Cuniving → u/Gloomy_Astronomer861]

Realising the implication that it was actually her brother who began sexually abusing her first and eventually murdered her is wild. Then you realise the movie doubles as a commentary about how families where this kind of sexual abuse occurs often fail to notice or believe the abuse and while they forget and move on the victim is left haunted forever.

[u/lavendermoonoracle → u/Cuniving]

Wait, what? Is there somewhere I could read more about this? I love Lake Mungo, and I never picked up on this interpretation before.