10 Horror Movies That Put Insane Effort Into Details Nobody Noticed

Robert Eggers' The VVitch is one of the most sinister period horror films since Ben Wheatley's A Field In England. Both are set in the 17th century with English characters although The VVitch (note the use of the contemporary spelling, before the letter 'w' was introduced into popular vocabulary) is located in a rural New England setting.

Puritan settlers William and Katherine fear their daughter has been recruited by a witch's coven as their crops fail and their new born son disappears into the woods without a trace.

While it would take the most committed history buff to pick up on every period-authentic detail, it would also take a trained cinematographer to notice the higher frame rate used for all scenes depicting supernatural forces, which increases from the standard 24 frames per second to 27 frames.

Why employ the additional three frames when most will simply not even realise it's there? Although it's not immediately obvious, these scenes have a sharper quality, as if slightly more focused, adding an extra layer of perception to the unsettling depiction of the satanic forces at work.

Even the props are afforded the same attention to detail - the corn crop has signs of 'ergot,' a fungus that causes hallucinations and the probable explanation of many reported cases of witchcraft in pre-industrial rural America.