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  • I once saw a horror movie that had scary, weird, subtle things in the foreground. For example, the main one I remember was early in the movie, when it was still keeping the viewer in suspense about whether anything supernatural was happening; in that scene the camera panned across an area and the silhouette of a ghost was right up front, but easy to miss. It’s the only movie I can recall doing that; I was watching the movie with my then-girlfriend and she didn’t even see it until I rewound to show her.

    I can’t remember the name of the movie, I’ll have to ask my now-wife, but it was quite good.

    edit: Actually managed to remember on my own. It was The Awakening.


  • That is a wonderful movie, but there’s at least one jump scare that I can recall (when the old lady opens the cabinet near the end) and it’s been at least a decade since I saw it.

    Agreed on every other point, though.

    Side note: As I write this, my toddler is laying beside me and started breathing deeply, reminding me of the “stop breathing!” scene, which was fantastically done. I should watch that movie again.