Make sure it’s not too general, please!
I love seeing movies where an apartment/house previously seen as inhabited turns out to look completely different without the implication of someone freshly moving out or be completely abadonned for too long to had looked like this at the time of previous insepction.
Movie I know of where it has happened
They Cloned Tyrone had this happen and I loved it so much.
I think I remember seeing this trope at least twice in some horror movies, but I don’t remember their titles. It always gets my attention.
I like the subtle call.
The things that presume that the audience has a little bit of intelligence and can put things together with appropriate context.
Examples are the guitar scene in Yes Man, and the wolf whistle in hotel Transylvania.
People like me that were paying attention notice that 15 minutes before Jim Carrey gets a call to action to prevent Luis’s suicide that the very song that he was learning in guitar class was jumper.
I was watching that movie in the theater and the instant he ran by the guitar on his way up the stairs it clicked in my head I knew exactly what song he would be singing.
I was laughing my ass off, and I was the only one in the movie theater laughing, because no one else had got the joke yet.
Cue 15 seconds later when he actually goes into the song and everyone else gets the joke and they join in on the laughter I’ve had the whole time.
The same thing happened with the wolf whistle in hotel Transylvania.
The exact same thing.
As soon as the werewolf went into the whistle pose and it was dead silent to us I started laughing my ass off.
Then the wolf pups showed up on screen, the rest of the audience got it and they started laughing too.
I love that shit.
It makes me feel so clever and it becomes such a memorable experience and all it did was leave just enough clues for the quick people to pick up on so that they could get the joke 5 seconds before everyone else but by the end everyone has gotten the joke and is enjoying the spectacle.