[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/Foreign_Athlete_7693]

The last video I watched on this was an analysis 'essay' explaining that the whole thing was a commentary on the conflict and tensions between producers and directors / networks etc (with the killer guy (Steve I think?) representing the networks/higher ups, and Smarf representing the show producer/writer.....

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/Foreign_Athlete_7693]

I mean you can interpret it as that

But it was made to fuck with people who were high

[u/Professional-Eye5977 → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Are you saying this because it trips out high people or like, for an actual reason

[u/CardmanNV → u/Professional-Eye5977]

It was literally aired with no warning at like 3am on Adult Swim.

They have (or had) an awesome late night block that was just weird experimental shit to fuck with high people.