10 Scariest Horror Movie Moments You Didn't Notice Straight Away
These terrifying moments only clicked a little later.
Above all else, the intent of most horror movies is to thoroughly unnerve the audience - to quicken their pulse and leave them with a visceral experience they won't forget long after the end credits roll.
But not all Scary Moments in horror films are necessarily big, loud, grand-standing ones that grab you by both shoulders and scream in your face.
Sometimes they're a little more subtle than that, with filmmakers creatively using all the tools in their box to do something which slyly creeps up on viewers instead.
There's a great art to creating dense images which the audience will only fully appreciate on repeat viewings, and that's absolutely the case with these 10 horror movie moments, each of which included terrifying subtleties you surely didn't pick up on until you watched it a second, third, or fourth time.
These moments were instead left in the frame for audiences to find with little active attention drawn to them by the filmmakers themselves - at least at first.
And so, if you managed to spot these sublimely unnerving asides by yourself, very well done indeed...
10. Michael Myers Driving Past Loomis - Halloween (1978)
Halloween's Michael Myers (Nick Castle) may resemble a spectral entity, but as the original film makes clear early on, the guy still needs to commandeer a car to get places, namely escaping the sanitarium where he's confined and getting back to his hometown of Haddonfield.
This isn't the only time we see Michael driving in the movie, though, and in fact, one such instance is hidden rather eerily in plain sight.
When Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is talking to Sheriff Brackett (Charles Cyphers) roughly 33 minutes into the movie, keep your eyes on the upper-left side of the screen.
Who do we see pulling up? Why, it's Michael Myers driving the very same car and even sporting his signature white-painted William Shatner mask.
While the idea of Michael driving around in broad daylight with that terrifying mask on is admittedly quite funny, it's also creepy as hell that he's just... cruising around town while the people of Haddonfield, including Loomis, are seemingly none the wiser.