10 Horrifying Details You Missed In Recent Horror Movies
Halloween Ends left a devastating subplot hidden in plain sight.
It's been quite the incredible year for horror movies, and there's even a strong argument to be made that it's been the best-ever - or certainly one of the best on record.
Over the last year-or-so, we've seen so many creative, thoughtful, and unique filmmakers deliver fascinatingly smart horror films that also didn't skimp on the brutality, while ensuring their works were packed with a ton of sneaky details to keep viewers coming back for more.
We all love watching movies that shed their layers like an onion upon repeat watches, where the subtext lays itself bare and hidden references come clearly into focus.
And these 10 horror movies certainly did that, concealing brilliantly devious details right in front of the audience's eyes, yet which most of us failed to catch on that first viewing.
From foreshadowing character deaths in a totally screwed up way to hinting at the killer's true identity, and even implying more terrifying threats waiting in the wings, these movies all dared to obscure fascinating and deliriously effed-up details in our collective blind spots.
Once you know these details, you'll surely never watch these recent horror movies quite the same way again...
10. All The Foreshadowed Deaths - X
Ti West's deliciously savage slasher throwback X offers up a number of memorably brutal kills, and because West's quite the playfully unhinged filmmaker, he of course decided to include a ton of foreshadowing for most of these grim fates.
First up we have porn producer Wayne Gilroy (Martin Henderson), who steps on a nail-riddled board and is then stabbed in the eyes by Pearl (Mia Goth) with a pitchfork.
Earlier on, he mentions that he's flat-footed and that "people's eyes are gonna pop out of their damn skulls" when they see the film that they're in the middle of making. How apt.
Elsewhere, actor Jackson Hole (Kid Cudi) mentions how farmers would point their guns at him when he served in Vietnam, and he's ultimately killed by Howard (Stephen Ure), a farmer, who shoots him with a shotgun.
Then there's actress Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), who is devoured by an alligator after being pushed into the lake by Pearl.
But the very first time we see Bobby-Lynne at the start of the film (pictured above), she walks out of a strip club with a mural of a woman having her bikini ripped off by an alligator.
Howard ends up dying of a heart attack after mentioning his weak heart several times, and finally, Pearl is killed after falling, breaking her hip, and having her head run over with a car by Maxine (Mia Goth).
Before he dies, Howard warns Pearl about her hip, and near the start of the film the cast and crew drive their car through cow guts in extremely similar fashion to how Pearl's skull is pulped by the car.
Ti West, we love you, but who hurt you?