10 Horror Movie Background Scares That Will Scar You For Life

Mike Flanagan loves himself a background scare, there's no two ways about it. In almost all of his films, and frequently in his series The Haunting Of Hill House and The Haunting Of Bly Manor, placing ghosts and ghouls in the backgrounds of his scenes, irrespective of whether it is day or night.

But it is in 2016's Ouija: Origin Of Evil that he really brings the dread. A prequel to 2014's lacklustre Ouija, Origin Of Evil takes us back to the roots of the series, with the Zander family, whose youngest daughter Doris (Lulu Wilson) acts as a conduit for sinister spirits posing as benevolent forces but with a murderous agenda.

Convincing her sister's boyfriend, Mikey (Parker Mack), to come alone to the basement with her and stick his arm in a wall, an out of focus Doris twitches in the background, her eyes going white, her head shifting in a hideous, doll-like fashion.

Doris whispers demonic sweet nothings into his ear and Mikey is summarily dispatched with a bedsheet strung from the ceiling in one of the film's most predictable jump-scares, but even that can't ruin this bone-breakingly horrifying moment.