History Fridge / TheSkeletonKey

** Asking if she has tattoos initially seems like she's being a judgemental old woman, until you know she wants the body for herself.

* The fact that those body snatchers are a married couple makes it even more disturbing. Someone in your body is having sexual relations with another person and there is nothing you can do about it. Keep in mind they have stolen the bodies of a young brother and sister.

** AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Was it really a murder-suicide? Or were they both murdered?

* Violet tells Caroline not to bother with the housework, as only she knows how to do it properly. Among housekeepers of the old south [[spoiler: especially those familiar with hoodoo]] there are practices, such as using herbal washes on the floors and windows, laying lines of brick dust in doorways, and marking the corners of rooms with ammonia (or urine) to protect from evil.
* [[spoiler:Herding Caroline to make the circle and "dig herself in". There's no apparent reason, since they have issues with the whole believing thing, not getting people in circles, and apparently the spell doesn't require the victim to trick himself/herself. Then it hits: making up a "protective circle" is ''the ultimate test of faith'', where the victims both consciously and unconsciously accept to believe, and show others that they do. And if you say outloud you believe in protection, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything you must believe]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic in its opposite too...]]]]

* Caroline's initial meeting with Violet; she's not really checking if she's suitable for the job, she's [[spoiler:[[GrandTheftMe checking out the merchandise...]]]]

* Violet's detailed account of the night the servants were lynched. [[spoiler: She should know it because she was ''there'']].

* The plight of Ben[[spoiler:/Luke]] is a ''lot'' more grim when you realize the twist ending. [[spoiler:A poor, unsuspecting guy, young and with his whole life ahead of him, happens to land two seemingly sweet old folks as his clients. And then, they trick him into believing in hoodoo, perform a terrifying ritual on him, and trap him in the paralyzed body of an old man until he dies. And he appears to just be aware enough to recognize what Caroline's in for, and to beg her to rescue him.]]
* Heck, the entire ''movie'' is FridgeHorror, if you think about it. Pretty much every single thing Luke and Violet say to Caroline [[spoiler:serves as some sort of foreshadowing to their plans for her.]]
* What the villains did to the children went beyond simple murder: [[spoiler:their spirits weren't just displaced when the ritual was performed; they were ''forced into Justify and Cecile's bodies''.]] The children, probably barely concious, [[spoiler:were ''lynched and burned by their own parents.'']] And no one was ever any the wiser. They at least had the small mercy of being rendered essentially brain-dead. [[spoiler:Not like what happened to Cecile and Justify's later victims]].