how come we didn't see that before
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
scariest horror movie moments you didn't
see right away where were you chad
i thought i saw blair the more time you
spend in that body
the more human you become admit it you
are going to miss me a little bit right
oh yeah okay
yeah all right for this list we'll be
looking at moments from horror movies
that are easy to miss
but once you notice make these movies
even more terrifying
in some cases we will be talking about
twists and endings so
spoilers ahead did any of these moments
keep you up at night
let us know in the comments down below
number 10 name dropping
the conjuring 2.
the second entry in this series about
real-life ghost hunters ed and lorraine
warren is filled with both the bombastic
blood pumping scares one would expect
from director james wan
as well as some understated moments
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in this installment the warrens face off
against the demon valik whose name is
revealed
late in the movie phallic's name however
appears throughout the film
popping up all around the warrens and
the family that they're helping
the most chilling example of this is
when vallec's name appears on the warren
family's bookshelf
spelled out in ornamental letters hidden
in plain sight like this from both the
characters
and the audience it's as though the film
like the house is permeated with
vallec's presence
number nine big saint bernard pet
cemetery
stephen king's works often make
reference to characters and ideas from
other of the author's books
joe what are you growling at
their film adaptations similarly like to
add easter eggs paying homage to the
author's extensive canon
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in the 2019 adaptation of pet cemetery
during a scene at a birthday party
one of the characters can be heard in
the background telling a story about a
big saint bernard with rabies
we've seen bernard
this is a reference to the king novel
cujo about you guessed it a big dog that
gets rabies and attacks
everyone it encounters
king has confirmed that a number of his
stories take place in the same universe
and it's always eerie imagining the
horrific events of one story happening
just a few towns over from another
number eight grammar lesson good night
mommy if you didn't have the stomach to
make it through this underrated austrian
chiller we don't blame you
none being chanting yeah
good night mommy is one of those horror
movies that pulls no punches with its
violence
however unlike other movies that lean
heavily into shock and gore
good night mommy is also quite subtle
with its storytelling
making the twist ending that one of the
main characters is a figment of his twin
brother's imagination
incredibly effective this show doesn't
look as good
there are hints sprinkled throughout the
movie however like how the twins mother
only uses the singular german word for
you when referring to the twins
it's not stopping america
viewers who don't speak german wouldn't
pick up on this understandably
but re-watching the film with hints like
this in mind make it even creepier than
the first viewing
number seven uninvited guests hereditary
mom what are you doing midsomar director
ariester's first feature hereditary is
filled to the brim with horrifically
memorable moments
many of which are so over the top that
it's easy to forget
and even miss some of the more low-key
scares annie
i need to call the police
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at the climax of the film there's an
establishing shot of the main
character's house as
day suddenly changes to night the
nighttime shot is dark and obscured but
if you narrow your eyes you can see
dozens of naked figures standing around
the house
likely a group of cult members who have
been harassing the main family
throughout the film
these figures aren't exactly hidden but
they're easy to miss upon first glance
and once you do notice
it's utterly skin crawling number six
drive by
halloween michael myers is probably the
most inconspicuous of all the great
slasher villains with his wraith-like
subtlety being what makes him truly
frightening
throughout this entry in the series
there are a number of scenes in which
myers is lingering in the background of
a shot
and the film draws no attention to him
sheriff
pardon me i'm uh loomis go to sam loomis
probably the eeriest example of this is
when dr loomis and the sheriff are
talking outside of a storefront
it's easy not to notice since the focus
is on their conversation but in the
background you can see myers sitting in
a car watching them
before driving right past loomis once
you notice this
you'll find yourself scanning each
subsequent shot to see if myers is
lurking
somewhere you hadn't noticed before
number five
real boy child's play hi i'm
chucky and i'm your friend to the end hi
ho
despite the more absurdist tone that the
child's play series would adopt with
later installments there's no denying
that the original is an
honest-to-goodness
scary movie
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serial killer charles lee ray's soul is
stuck inside a chucky doll which is
gradually becoming more human
and rey wants to transfer his soul to a
better vessel more time you spend in
that body
the more human you become as the film
progresses
the chucky doll slowly begins to
resemble a human more and more
with hair that begins to recede and turn
darker eyes that look far more like a
person's and skin that seems more
organic
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the crew actually built multiple dolls
in order to achieve this subtle effect
and in terms of creepiness
they deserve an a-plus we're friends to
the end remember
this is the end friend number four
john's sketchbook saw the saw franchise
has never been known for its subtlety
so are you going to watch yourself die
today adam
i do something about it however there's
one clever easter egg in the first
installment that causes
shutters in those who catch it before
the reveal that john kramer is
jigsaw we see a flashback where he's
sitting in a hospital bed while dr
gordon talks to a number of doctors
about his condition patient had
his name is john dr gordon
he's a very interesting person because
the scene is mostly about gordon and
there's no reason to suspect kramer at
this point you might not notice kramer's
sketchbook laying open right in front of
him
in the sketchbook you can see drawings
of one of his jigsaw traps and also
scribblings of x's which no doubt
reference the x marks the spot clue from
gordon's trap how come we didn't see
that before
number three family photo poltergeist
though it's sometimes easy for all of
the thought and effort that goes into
set design to go unnoticed by audiences
moments like this one from poltergeist
remind us that going the extra mile is
always worth it
the night before the freeling family are
set to move out of their extremely
haunted house
they're visited one last time by their
spectral tormentors
while the mother of the family diane is
being attacked in her bedroom
pay close attention to the photos on her
dresser
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before the ghost assault the photos are
of her family but once the haunting
starts
one of the photos changes to an image of
a horrifying demon
as if this scene wasn't traumatizing
enough with that freaky clown doll
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number 2 ufo unidentified falling object
cloverfield so i started thinking about
loss and stuff that we do and i realized
oh my god like mystery boxes are
everywhere in what i do jj abrams has
talked about so-called mystery boxes
which might apply to questions posed by
his stories that are never meant to be
answered
in the abrams produced found footage
monster movie cloverfield
what exactly the invading monsters are
and where they come from is never
explicitly revealed
however during a video camera flashback
at the end of cloverfield
while two of the characters are filming
themselves on a ferris wheel
far off in the horizon an object can be
seen falling into the sea
oh yeah okay
yeah all right all right we're almost on
tape we got like three seconds left
it's likely that this object has
something to do with the arrival of the
cloverfield monster
and while this moment clears up that the
monster probably comes from space
that really only adds to the mystery of
its origin well played abrams
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
off his medication the silence of the
lambs wine fava beans and liver are
foods that paired with certain
medications can be fatal
a census taker once tried to test me
i ate his liver with some fava beans
and a nice chianti
the james wanaverse dead silence
insidious
in both films the puppet from juan's saw
series makes a cameo
could all three be connected why would i
need an alibi
i'm sure your lawyer wants you to have
one hide and seek
insidious early on in the ghost boy
scene he could be seen hiding in the
corner right in plain sight
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gas station massacre halloween before
the carnage at the gas station
michael myers can be seen lurking in the
background
excuse me bathroom it's out that way
around the back
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number one full of hot air the thing
few films capture the feelings of
suspense and paranoia better than john
carpenter's the thing
you see when a man bleeds
it's just tissue by the end of the movie
we're left unsure if one of our two
remaining characters mcgreedy and childs
is
actually the shape-shifting alien that
they've been battling throughout
where were you charles
i thought i saw blair however as the two
men
sit outside the wreckage of their
antarctic base slowly freezing to death
mccready's breath is clearly visible in
the cold while the breath of
childs who seems suspiciously unbothered
by the cold is faint if present at all
won't last long neither though
we this along with the fact that the
whiskey bottle that mccready gives to
childs resembles the same bottle he
filled with gasoline earlier in the film
has led many to believe that this scene
confirms that childs
is in fact the alien if you're worried
about me if we've got any surprises for
each other
i don't think we're in much shape to do
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