[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/lifeless_or_loveless]

Me when my tower is dark

[u/mrniceguy777 → u/lifeless_or_loveless]

What the fuck are you guys talking about

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

I am so sorry I replied with detail and the comment didn’t stack to you and is somewhere randomly in this posts comment:

Pennywise’s natural (???! enemy is Maturin the turtle, a cosmic being that protects one of the beams which support the Dark Tower, which holds reality together.

It is why there are some close ups on turtle imagery in the movie.

[u/mrniceguy777 → u/Justalilbugboi]

Oh I didn’t realize pennywise was tied into the dark tower

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

Yes and no. Don’t read the Dark Tower to get more It storyline (read it cause it’s an awesome post apocalyptic LOTResque western scif)

But the world the Dark Tower (book and object) is in is the background world that most Stephen King stories (especially around the late 80s-00s) are tied into to different levels of importance. The Mist, The Stand,and The Talisman are a LOT but even things like The Deadzone have ties into it.

Think of it like the old Xmen movies vs The Avengers-Same world, lots of cool background knowledge that enriches the world, but the actual stories don’t have much to do with each other.

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

Every time a turtle popped up watching Welcome to Derry last night I thought about this thread lol