When a director hides something creepy in the frame, and you never notice it until your second, third, or fourth watch....that's a special feeling. But there are different variations to this trick; sometimes, it's plain old blink and you'll miss it, and at other times, it's a bit more complicated. So let's delve into the different ways a film may try to affect your unconscious, with lots of cool examples, and of course, one excellent horror film you probably have never seen before. For the most part, this video avoids major spoilers, and even for the warning titles at the start of the video, I personally think the spoiler is quite minimal in the grand scope of things, but hey, you can never be too careful. So with that, here's the list of films that come up in different sections of the video, specifically those that are NOT explicitly stated by me. For detailed spoiler warning, refer to the comment section! And as it goes nowadays with my videos, please comment something with 'blinkity blink' if you've reached this point in the description, and I'll make sure to do a thumbs up in front of my monitor, knowing you're a thorough person with patience who cares to read everything. Okay bye. Films NOT mentioned by me explicitly, but are shown in the video INTRO - Smile 2, The Conjuring 2, Oddity, Insidious Chapter 2, The Menu CHOCOLATE - Hereditary, Insidious Chapter 2, The Conjuring 2, The Menu 10 SEC TO BLINK - Friday the 13th Part VII, The Babadook, A Tale of Two Sisters SAM & BOB - A Cinderella Story, Fight Club, Late Night With The Devil, Sixteen Candles BLINK & YOU'LL MISS IT - Deep Red /// THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE is now streaming exclusively on MUBI (almost globally). Head over to http://mubi.com/spikimamovies if you wish to get a whole month of MUBI for free! Music download: http://spikima.wixsite.com/spikima Patreon: http://patreon.com/spikima Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/spikima Instagram: @ spikima Your support helps with keeping the channel running. Love. /// Credits: Soul of Galveston by John Lopker (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/john-lopker/) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Horror ambience & train to hell from http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/ Help Us by Eaters (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/optimum) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Timestamp 0:00 Jumpscares 1:16 The Chocolate 2:58 Lingering Background Figures 3:55 Superimposed Horror 4:24 Subliminal Inserts & Repeated Images 5:17 Blink And You'll Miss It 7:01 Daytime Horror 7:45 Mixing With A Jumpscare 8:29 R-Point 11:07 Pay Close Attention 11:31 Thank You #videoessay #horror #horrormovies
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I just wish these movies weren't so dark. I can't even see the foreground, let alone hidden stuff in the background
So glad you mentioned Hill House. I watch it frequently and am still undone by "hidden" ghosts I missed the first...6 times
i often find myself wishing jumpscares were silent, and always go back to that scene in hereditary. it is much more horrifying when something approaches you in plain sight; the uncanny valley lasts a lot longer than a quick adrenaline fix!
Not sure if "The Chocloate" is a typo or not and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
The "Too Many Cooks" Adult Swim segment had the serial killer in the background of shots long before you noticed him.
To quote Mike Stoklasa: "You might not have noticed it... but your brain did."
"CHOCLOATE" jumpscared me. I thought I was having a stroke
I really enjoyed seeing Edward Norton's character in Glass Onion switch the drinks and then be gaslighted the entire movie to make me think I didn't see that happen. Kind of similar to R-Point
Hidden in plain sight is an amazing horror film trope. The fact that sometimes we as an audience know something isn't right but the characters don't until it's too late. Shame not many films do this. Like if you look at the menu, you know something isn't quite right with the staff or restaurant, also the other guests having no idea.
A friend of mine, once said: ~wait, then who's taking the photo?~ (That part of the R-Point, it blow my mind)
One of the best "Blink and you miss it" movies is the Japanese mockumentary Thriller "The Saiko Family" or "Saiko, The large family," which tells an entirely different story than the one the movie follows, but only if you focus on the details in the background.
I cannot believe I've seen Longlegs twice and was enraptured the entire runtime and failed, and I mean COMPLETELY failed, to notice the devil figure a single time of the now 26 times I was given the opportunity to notice it. That's incredible.
What was YOUR favourite 'Holy Crap' moment from a horror film hiding something in the background?! :D Most things are spoiler-free in my opinion, but just in case, here's the timecode for select few films I show that MIGHT be narratively spoilery (ones I did NOT mention at the start). For list of films I show but do not explicitly mention, refer to the description! 4:07~4:17 Midsommar (just a minor detail) 4:50~5:10 Late Night With The Devil 7:01~7:45 Insidious (just a single scene in detail) 7:45~8:25 Annabelle Creation (just a single scene) But honestly, you're fine to watch them if you ask me. Enjoy.
Thank you for including R-Point. It’s such a creepy movie with some interesting scares and plot points, and we really don’t get much supernatural military horror. That particular detail was a serious “Whoa…” moment back when I first watched it, but in my experience it tends to get overlooked compared to other It’s Right There! scenes.
This is my absolute favorite trope in horror. I remember this one time when I was on vacation where it was pitch dark in the hotel room and I was going back to bed, but the large cupboard opposite of me looked so much like a human looking down at me it legitimately made me tear up in fear and not move until I turned on the lights. Horror isn’t supposed to just spook you, but constantly keep your primal fear on edge.
there’s an amazing scene like this in the original Carrie. when Carrie gets home from the prom and goes upstairs to her room, Margaret is hiding behind her bathroom door. I never noticed it until the light was turned on, but looking back it’s so obvious. so eerie.
Shout out to Lake Mungo.
8:14 this exact thing was done SO well in a short film you can find on YouTube called "portrait of God". I HIGHLY recommend everybody checks it out if they like horror. One of my favourite shorts ever.
I remember watching IT with my friends and leaving the theater and asking if anyone saw the creepy librarian in that one scene in the thumbnail. That shit freaked me out and it’s all I could see that entire scene. But no one else saw it and that made it even more unsettling
They did this with the PT demo, the horror game where you go through the corridors in a loop? Someone managed to put the camera in free roam to discover the horrifying truth--the entity, Lisa, is right behind your character THE ENTIRE TIME.