Before Leigh Whannell became one of the most exciting filmmakers in horror, he was the co-mastermind behind two major franchises: Lionsgate’s Saw and Universal’s Insidious.
While longtime collaborator James Wan would direct the first two Insidious films, Whannell would take over for Insidious: Chapter 3 before writing and directing both Upgrade and this year’s The Invisible Man.
Wan, who also directed the first Saw, tipped his hat to his franchise when he slipped Billy the puppet into Dead Silence before sneaking a drawing of the iconic puppet into the first Insidious.
Billy also popped up in Wan’s Death Sentence.
Whannell would continue this tradition in Upgrade as well as The Invisible Man, as proven by reddit user MJZuurman who shared two screencaps from the aforementioned genre films in which Billy has been graffitied onto a wall and a fence. Did you spot these?!
