Nope

I love movies with a self-contained subplot, especially in horror. In Nope, it's the sitcom chimp. In The Devil's Backbone, it's the unexploded bomb. Both of them sit on the edge of the main story, sometimes seen as tangential or interruptions to the story but they're mirrors. They live in the background but define the foreground as self-contained horror shorts.  In Nope, Gordy acts as a warning of what's to come with Jean Jacket - nature will not be used as a spectacle. In the sci-fi Western, we see Hollywood (the background) in miniature with exploitation, commodification, then the shock and horror when the blood hits the floor.  Peele scales Gordy up to Jean Jacket in the sky but in comparison, the hushed and claustrophobic shots on the set of his birthday party do more to scare me than Jean Jacket ever did.