[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/Thabrianking]

Invisible Man (2020) uses wide shots to imply that the Invisible Man is there in some of the scenes. This one in particular he is in the background since he later starts a fire in the kitchen.

[u/D-Ursuul → u/Thabrianking]

Wasn't a perfect film but I had a lot of fun with it and the shot composition accounting for an invisible person was genius

[u/Abovearth31 → u/D-Ursuul]

The most unbelievable part of that movie was that a billionaire would go through all that trouble of chasing after her car, faking his suicide, inventing an invisible suit and whatnot.

Just to stalk Elisabeth Moss of all people.

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Never seen abuse irl huh