10 Hidden Details That Make Horror Movies Even Scarier

Hidden horror movie scares you missed! Halloween, The Eye & more!

[@veprecose]

The creepy librarian in IT drove me crazy because no one else in my group noticed it. I was like, "Did I imagine it?" I went back to watch it again specifically to check.

[@SjofnBM1989]

Yeah I thought it was really obvious but I guess not. Maybe because we watch those kind of movies enough we've conditioned ourselves to pay attention to the background.

[@yannis41]

Exactly. I thought it was really obvious even though she was out of focus at that point but you could tell something creepy happening with her

[@Switcher1972]

My GF had not caught the librarian first - but the scene was long enough to make her spot. Delicious thrill.

[@Crisjola]

That would drive me nuts. God. >.

[@angelmiller3331]

SAME! I had to double, triple, quadruple check! What would have been scarier would have been if she wasn't acting weird on the second viewing...

[@jenniferzackschewski2189]

My husband and I moved to Michigan about 6 years ago, where the movie It Follows was made. A few years later, while talking to our neighbors about horror movies, we found out that the guy we bought our house from played the naked man in that movie. Of course, I immediately went to IMDb, and sure enough, it was him. Occasionally, when they’re in town, they visit the neighbors and us. I’m not sure I could look at him the same after having seen him naked now 😂

[@Sankara561]

You could solve the mystery once and for all by asking him, did they use his face in the photo or is it all just an unintended similiarity

[@kareemezra1350]

you all prolly dont give a damn but does any of you know a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I was stupid forgot the account password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!

[@mikeaykut9592]

What a coincidence

[@melindakinnaird]

Poltergeist. In the scene where the mother is drying her hair, there is a cluster of family photos behind her. As she is dragged across the ceiling, one of the photos is replaced by a ghostly face.

[@pateris]

In the original by Hooper, you mean ?

[@nikkishrum4168]

@@pateris yes its in the original movie not the remake

[@melindakinnaird]

Yep

[@pateris]

@@nikkishrum4168 Okay then, I'll look it up next time, thank you mate !

[@martinsorenson1055]

I can't quite make it out clearly - but yeah, the picture changes, and it does look like a creepy face. It sort of looks like the Jigsaw puppet, tbh.

[@pateris]

The Descent's jump scare is one of the most effective. This jaded codger who's seen thousands of horror movies turned fifteen again ! Usually jump scares are the easy way for when you can't be arsed to build an atmosphere, but here, the movie earned it !

[@IIZylark]

Inside, The Descent, Goodnight Mommy, IT, Devil's Pass, Annihilation, Oculus, It Follows, The Eye, and Halloween are the movies mentioned since there's nothing in the description.

[@IIZylark]

@Aaron D I've heard good things but never watched it myself, I believe most people say the French original is significantly better than the English remake though iirc.

[@SerenityVonSavage]

Thank you. There's a couple there I now want to watch but am also wishing I didn't know how they end.

[@cherryblossom7944]

thank you

[@wolveswithtea]

Thank you. Sick of them always saying 'read the description' and being nothing there

[@IIZylark]

@@wolveswithtea right?! Like come on it can't be that hard.

[@implodingnerd]

I'm so happy Devil's Pass is on here. That movie needs more love and recognition.

[@arcangle7444]

They missed the part inside the tunnel tho... The camera spans and you see a mutant walking by the three students but they don't notice.

[@Ravenite456]

People missed Michael murdering the guy in the background? They held on the shot long enough for it to be noticeable.

[@ishanaprabhakar7542]

yeah it seems obvious now, but i when i first watched it I didn't notice the bludgeoning, i just assumed the movie was slowing the pace to build up suspense 😂

[@Just4Fun-Zocker]

I think even better and creepier than the librarian in IT is when Pennywise appears on that mural while the kids are sitting in front of it.

[@batsnghostz]

oh he WHAT

[@swaybravo7899]

@@batsnghostz yeah when they’re patching up Ben, Pennywise is in the mural watching them

[@DrunkTalkin]

I just looked it up I can’t believe I never noticed!

[@Just4Fun-Zocker]

Yeah, it's easy to miss. I think I only realized it at my 4th or 5th watch.

[@fortifarse]

Never caught this one! Time to check it out again lol

[@TheSatanshunter]

In Saw 2, a women sticks both her hands into holes in a box with razors to get a cure for the poison gas she's breathing in, but she gets her hands stuck and presumably dies from blood loss. However if you look closely at the top of the box you can see that it isn't locked, and she could of just opened it from the other side and avoided the razors all together.

[@jungleblobs5225]

Nobody notices this, it seems, but speaking of Halloween, in Halloween 3, as the gas station attendant's tv fizzles out, theres a split section where the silver shamrock commercial turns into Michaels mask.

[@karl_alan]

Wow...those mutants in #6 sure look like a ps2 cutscene

[@heresyllama1636]

And 096

[@Poloassassin828]

Exactly the same thought

[@arcangle7444]

Ik but it was creepy when they appear for the first time.

[@whineycracker1976]

In Halloween 4, when the two sheriffs are chatting as Sherriff Meeker is lighting a candle, you can see the silhouette of Michael standing in the background behind a wall. It took me 30 years to finally catch that.

[@mattstyczen4013]

the hand on top of the tree in The Ritual is my personal favorite ngl

[@raechelgrantham8134]

I love anything Mike Flannagin does. He's a true genius and you can tell he's passionate about what he creates. Doctor Sleep could stand as it's own film. Brilliant.

[@kuyarickkelley4719]

He is the most overrated director in horror and everything has has done is shallow garbage for horror fans who fancy themselves as savvy film buffs but really aren't familiar with actual good movies

[@Thaywood79]

Who pissed in your coffee today??

[@schematicb5393]

Agreed, I like how he sees horror as coming from a very human place; not many directors realize that, but the fact that he does makes his movies much more enjoyable, beyond the horror stamp

[@raechelgrantham8134]

@@kuyarickkelley4719 The fact that our opinions differ so greatly is what makes film so great. I'm sure there are movies you think are amazing that I think are hot garbage, but I'm not going to insult you simply because your opinion is different from mine. To each their own.

[@DenDen04]

A detail that gets me are the motion sensor lights from the movie Hereditary. In the seance scene, you can see light outside as if it was daytime even though it was in the middle of the night. This indicates that the cultist were around the whole time.

[@lordeflockatee3399]

I remember seeing “Insidious” in theaters and noticing the “boy statue” immediately and feeling like it was out of place,then BOOM... I was correct 😂

[@mchambermich]

watched Dyatlov Pass Incident earlier, had to rewind to check I hadn't imagined that bit, spent the rest of the film watching the snow

[@02BLACKOUT02]

always love whatculture horror 😌🤝

[@Younglordkash]

Me too respectably

[@noahgonemild]

we stan

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

Oculus was really good, I kept thinking: "Just leave the house and the mirror" NOTHING good ever comes from Mirrors.

[@flamewolfscout3978]

You say that like they could've escaped that way. The past timeline left them forced to literally fend for their lives, and bear in mind, they wanted the mirror destroyed so they could stop its influence. And the present timeline shows Tim stepping outside and making a phone call, but then finds himself ported back into the house; and that's not even taking the ending into account, where it's even WORSE for them: BOTH siblings run outside, but upon looking in through the window, they seem themselves standing in front of the mirror, the killswitch timer still going down. In other words, they CAN'T just run away.

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

@@flamewolfscout3978 the HAUNTING only existed in thier minds so yes that's is exactly what I mean. Didn't you get the movie? You seem like a teen. In fact if the writer wanted to allude to the fact that a demonic or otherwordly presence was responsible then he wouldn't have had the strange occurences only be through thier perception of reality. Example: She picks up an apple and takes a bite only to realize that she actually bit into a lightbulb that she had picked up. Everything (Thier actions) was based on how the brother and sister perceived things to be. The scene where the he goes outside only to find himself inside is set to make us question own perceptions.

[@flamewolfscout3978]

@@SnarkierThan-U-R And I suppose the plants suddenly dying is supposed to be "just their perception" as well?

[@SnarkierThan-U-R]

@@flamewolfscout3978 The ENTIRE fucking movie is intended to make us not only question their perspectives but but our own. Franklky I don't know if the plants "suddenly died" from 'ghost intervention' or lack of "care" but seeing them shrivel up is a metaphor symbolizing the paasage of time. Seriously, I don't remember seeing anyone watering the plants.. just remember this rule of filmmaking: NOTHING ever appears in a movie that doesn't have some kind of identifial meaning. So, when you grow up you will look at movies differently. If there was an other-wordly presence we would have seen evidence of such phenomenon.

[@David-kc5bo]

my reflection 😱

[@lb_collector]

aaaaaaaaaand "The Devil's Pass" is mentioned again!! yess!!! I'm so psyched about this!

[@megamoviez]

I love Annihilation and The Descent! Both scared the ever living shit out of me!

[@paulrhodeman8276]

Truth! That bear in annihilation scarred me! I almost fainted in my seat when it screamed with that woman’s voice! Lol

[@dmwingon]

annihilation was great, but it didn't scare me, i was mostly into it for the creature designs (especially the bear). the book has a lot more horror in it, in my opinion.

[@Scarletttt___]

IT is still one of my favorite horror movies, for me, its the perfect mix of jumpscares, creepiness, suspence, comedy, good actors/actresses, and cool effects.

[@patrickwentzell4638]

the first Elm Street movie freaked both me and my sister out years ago. it's so cool that I remember it.

[@Caeljharden]

The librarian in IT still gives me the creeps lol

[@thegreekfromchicago9812]

God the librarian in It haunts me, honestly one of the scariest moments in the movie for me lol

[@redwardranger7034]

I know Karen Gillan died in Oculus but damn I haven't noticed that detail. I have to rewatch that film again.

[@michaelj1729]

its too fast to pause tho hahaha

[@redwardranger7034]

@@michaelj1729 I've watched too many TV shows so I may have enough practice

[@madhattermikey]

Love the michael myers background kill, I only noticed it on my second watch.

[@HELyasss]

I've never seen Inside, but when I saw her casually sneaking into the house like that, I gasped

[@tomorrowssjoe]

in a puppet combo game, you can see the killer watching you from the window the entire time, very well hidden (night watch), cool thing to find

[@sbenton62]

Oculus was surprisingly good.

[@schematicb5393]

Honestly, it looked like a good film anyway, but yeah it was fantastic

[@reguluspastor]

_Session 9_ is full of them in general.

[@s_nunyabiznez]

Oh, I ADORE that movie!

[@RatSawGod]

Session 9 is my favorite horror movie. A masterpiece.

[@missfortune404]

Another creepy bit about the annihilation bear is that it’s the lady’s voice they hear from the bear, after they see her dead body with her throat ripped out. We’re her voice box would be.

[@nosiahan]

The creepiest thing about it IMO, was the vaguely audible, "help, it hurts", as it dies. 😶

[@minitumen]

Yep, that’s very creepy (maybe the scariest part of the movie IMO), but it’s not a hidden detail. They are pretty explicit about it on the movie

[@brandyrose9997]

I didn't notice any of these details! Thanks for picking it apart for us. Say HAYHO to Ash for us! 🕯️💗💀

[@MintyCow101]

Devils pass is SOOO GOOOODDD. I thought Halloweens scares were so brilliant, how you can clearly see him in the background, i saw them all!! Its so freakin creepy HES RIGHT THERE

[@CashelOConnolly]

If you get the opportunity to watch The Eye, DO NOT WATCH THE AMERICAN REMAKE,or if you’ve seen the American remake then watch the original Singapore-Hong Kong version,it’s brilliant without a crappy tagged on happy ending like the truly awful American remake has. It’ll shock you!!!

[@alanwakeish]

The US version of The Descent had Sarah escaping. But in the rest of the world's version, the scene where she escapes is all in her head. It shows that she's actually surrounded by the cave monsters, showing that she's completely lost her mind.

[@keyxxx]

uh~ the original version was a Singapore-Hong Kong production,

[@CashelOConnolly]

@@keyxxx you are quite correct, I apologise unreservedly

[@CashelOConnolly]

@@keyxxx I’ve corrected my stupidity

[@keyxxx]

@@CashelOConnolly No prob John! We are learning new things everyday :)

[@kieran8845]

Well here I am again on KZbin at 2am watching this before I sleep.

[@vinogarra9788]

That goddamn bear *shudders*

[@CrackingCody]

Jeez that Mutants CG looks horrendous.

[@rikkishepard9426]

For Oculus, in the first part where he is talking about the director and it points to something meant to be scary, I cannot for the life of me figure out what it pointing to! There’s nothing there!

[@TimmyTwo-Toes]

There’s a figure stood very still at the very left of the screen

[@rikkishepard9426]

Still don’t see it

[@rikkishepard9426]

@@TimmyTwo-Toes I see the one in the stairs, but not the one before it

[@choppingdoll4086]

@@rikkishepard9426 You can only see the side of a figure, it’s arm and hand just resting at its side but not a whole figure. Very subtle.

[@stephenjacewicz4594]

Great list, you guys missed Midsommar with the sister's face in the tree.

[@Echodolly6]

This list is subtle things in the background that people often miss. The Midsommar face in the trees was pretty unmissable.

[@steveroark6393]

The ending (the British version) where the girl did not get away was a true gut punch.

[@dantethespoon1087]

At the beginning of The Thing (1980) when the dog runs up to the Expedition Members, there's a man that shouts at them in Norwegian, "Get the hell away from that thing. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS!!"

[@gingersnapps]

Who could have missed the librarian in IT behind the boy ! I noticed it right off the bat!

[@callumbird7492]

Hereditary and Midsommar - where do I begin with these two?

[@emmettfitz-hume9408]

Shocked that Hereditary didn't make this list.

[@randelhall3864]

@@emmettfitz-hume9408 Yeah, the naked people outside the house during the finale as day turns to night That is easy to miss in Hereditary. Horrifying.

[@HDKEV65]

Josh's list are the best! Love listening to his voice!

[@x5992]

I think it was Insidious 2, the camera was following Rose Byrne, in the room you see a woman in the corner, then when you see the room again a second later she's gone.

[@Bdub1112]

Brilliant list! Inside is one of my favourite films. Annihilation was amazing... I loved Occulus.. just great list.

[@eraserhead1788]

In the first movie.I actually noticed the woman going upstairs,but i thought it was one of the police officers now that i knew it was her its kinda eerie now to re watch

[@natelittletent3648]

Why does no one ever bring up in the mouth of madness? Perfect horror movie with a very good ending. Best damn lovecraftian movie ever made. Sam Neill is perfect in it and personally my favorite John carpenter movie. All the nods to HP lovecraft are awesome. The entire movie is basically shown in the first ten minutes. Even a small cameo by john carpenter himself.

[@galladegamer3579]

I love when movies do this. They should do it MUCH mor often!

[@VladimirDT]

Man in the photos named "Semen" scariest thing in the whole video

[@Coramelimane]

It follows.: Uh guys, one of the characters was murdered by the thing that *was disguised as his mother.* so this already hapened

[@ketchuploverful]

The naked man wasn't in my copy of IT FOLLOWS

[@ashh4929]

I'll throw in a what culture favorite, in High Tension the decapitated head the trucker is getting busy with is supposed Alex's. Which was supposed to foreshadow all the upcoming events.

[@kristinunderdog4687]

I had no idea there was an original The Eye... only one I’ve seen was the one with Jessica Alba...

[@davidvaldes5054]

You can do any video about horror movie wicht fates worse that the dead, example : -be a cat for ever (hocus pocus) -the patricia, Olga and Sara fate (suspiria 2018) -be the slave from mother of darkness (inferno 1980)

[@Dragoness-si2xr]

He needed a virgin to light a candle in Houcs Poucus 😂😂 .

[@crazyfool7685]

The killer bear creature in Annihilation isn't original! Remember the late seventies,early eighties movie The prophecy.

[@pateris]

By the great John Frankenheimer !

[@martinsorenson1055]

Yes, but it wasn't screaming with its victim's screams...

[@crazyfool7685]

@@martinsorenson1055 That sounds lame! 😴

[@martinsorenson1055]

@@crazyfool7685 Yeah, it might have been lame' - I don't know fabrics very well.

[@frankmoniz1467]

Definitely going to watch these scary gems again, bloody brilliant!

[@mdl797]

The woman who climbs in the kitchen window in It Follows is the creepiest. You can infer from her behavior and disheveled clothing that she was a rape victim. Gives me chills thinking about it.

[@disableddragonborn]

The librarian in It impresses me. She is clearly It in a different form, particularly because of the posture she takes when she turns to face Ben and the camera. I wonder if Bill Skarsgård helped the actress master that body language.

[@elliottryan13]

Hey Josh, ever researched the colours on Freddy's sweater? It's BRILLIANT once you hear about them.

[@vincentowen3669]

Marble Hornets Presents: Always Watching. It is a Slenderman film. It is a found footage style movie and it isn't that great. However, it has some of the greatest suspense I have ever had the pleasure to watch. You end up looking for Slender every scene. Especially when the film has distortions, which is the cue for Slenderman's appearance. They did a fantastic job on that front.

[@katz0625]

Good one!!!!

[@steveroark6393]

Annihilation- Yikes! I mean... Yikes!!!

[@mojosodope45]

The decent scene wasn’t a hidden monster, it was a crew member that they didn’t notice in editing.

[@hatartshop1098]

the scene showed in this video was planned, the crew member is from a different scene (you can actually see him in this very video, at 1;31 in the down left corner of the screen), the scene with the flashlight was always meant to be ^^

[@sarahlovee1865]

You see the monsters in the decent a LOT if you know to look

[@jabp1807]

Once you see it you cant unsee it

[@sugartittypanda7523]

Best list I've seen in awhile 👊👍

[@steph7940]

and i just thought the zombies in devils pass were just wolves running in the snow

[@lilkodaboi683]

“I thought I told you not to be in here”

[@haleyisaphotographer]

Devils Pass was and is still very creepy.

[@novaxploder8659]

Hereditary wasnt mentioned with the ending of the mum hiding in the dark corner against the ceiling before he wakes up?

[@awickedtribe]

Anyone tell what the wristband at 7:55 says? Does it matter?

[@craigmiddlemiss6917]

the devils pass scene is very obvious i actually fought they where goats in the background the movie that is missing is LAKE MUNGO there are a lot of hidden ghost images they use the Peripheral Vision imagery really well

[@cervanno05]

I can't believe people didn't see the librarian. I mean it was clear as day in the cinema.

[@thestinger5047]

Probably might be obvious but are those a pair of giant eyes in the back of the first staircase? @5:57

[@ashp2503]

I grabbed my husbanf hard at the cinema when we watched the first IT when that library scene happened. I HAAAATE that creepy stare with no blinking hahaha and that was the scariest thing in the movie for me 😅 i saw her straight away

[@thefisherking78]

Put list in description plz

[@aprilmarshall4522]

One move you need to cover is rose red

[@disableddragonborn]

4:20 I'm sorry, I know it's childish, but "Semen Zolotarev" is really funny to me. I just looked it up to see if it was an actual name, and the man's name was Semyon Zolotarev.

[@siriustoast]

Pretty sure the it follows monster has a pattern of killing it's victims as their parents. Like, it was her dad at the pool, etc

[@kamah619]

What about pazuzu in the exorcist?

[@MandyBuglet]

In It the creepy old lady wasn't the librarian. She was just a customer.

[@miloradvlaovic]

Does anyone else hear "chest" at around 6:18 ????

[@adriennereyes5775]

Awesome

[@canyounot4706]

Im.more scared knowing Micheal myers can fucking drive

[@user-pd3cw6ly1t]

The more brutal it gets, the better.

[@keeganshigh]

I think you're misunderstanding the word masterpiece, Annihilation sucked.

[@FlatOnHisFace]

I know, right? Every time I hear someone say it was so good, I sincerely ask what they like about it, and other than vague responses like, "I just liked it," or, "It was cool," no-one seems to have anything to discuss. I could say things like how it is stupid to send group after group trying to recover a missing person only to mount the missing person toll. Or the time lapses don't seem to fit with their aging, wear-and- tear, need for sustenance, urgency to resolve the glowing bubble thing, or even add any interest or complexity to the plot, but just seems to be there to be something weird. Or how the title doesn't fit the movie because all you need to do is leave the area alone and problem solved. I would've liked to see the bubble expanding so it appeared to be a problem to solve, but evidently, it only did in the backstory. I could say that I'd like to see something in the performances or plot that we hadn't seen before. But there is never a satisfying retort; people don't seem to have much conviction to support their stamp of approval, specifically for this movie. As it is, there were some decent special effects, but they were wasted here and could've better served a more deserving script.

[@billycopper7248]

The mother on the ceiling in Hereditary.

[@schematicb5393]

You eventually notice it though because you see her crawling

[@tonytoes0]

So Goodnight Mommy ripped off The Other(1972), or A Tale of Two Sisters

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

raise your voiceover voulume dude i got it jacked on the pc and youtube and barely hear u

[@grantkruger3689]

Haven't you already done some of these?

[@mariawhite7337]

Okay, was I supposed to find out Semen is an actual name or find that out from a youtube video?

[@therandomgeek85]

I love watching The descent with horror newbies and watching them freak out, I'm all like oh you hard and want to watch one of my favorite movies?!? And then laugh my ass off when they scream through the hole thing lmao.

[@EvilNecroid]

its not the same without ash

[@mike7652]

10 Horror Movies We Continuously Shuffle Around To Make New Lists Fixed that title for ya. No need for thanks, I just like helping!

[@pateris]

Yer eeeeeeeevil mate ! ;)

[@Henshingod]

One particular one I enjoy is the found footage movie "Alien Abduction". Just before the family meets the aliens for the first time, the son (who is filming) points his camera at a rear view mirror on a car. For just a moment, to the left of his reflection, you can see one of the aliens also staring at the mirror come into view. It's simple, but a well-done scare. Edit: Found the scene: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6e2eKyhptJ0fs0 around the 2 and a half minute mark.

[@ioiwut4874]

dude the descent was one of the best scary movies. its not exactly what i would call a good movie but it definitely came thru when it comes to instilling fear. its got monsters, paranoia, claustrophobia and survival driven betrayal. oh and cannibalism lol. i don't like the movie but its at least a 9/10 when it comes to unsettling the viewer. that being said it was well done as a movie in general- im just not a fan of cheesey horror, even when executed effectively. impressive none-the-less.

[@MrKing-231]

I always thought that the thing in It Follows took a form of people you would be least attracted to, making the sexual nature of it's kills much more horrific. I felt like it was a commentary on violent sexual assault.

[@EditRealityGaming]

The It Follows detail follows suit with it copying the one person we witness it kills mom. They do mention it is smart.