As Halloween approaches, it’s getting scary out there. But, surprisingly, it’s not as jump-scary as it used to be. Since 2014, the number of jump scares cranked out by Hollywood has fallen ...

Jump scares are considered the fart jokes of horror: cheap, easy and lowbrow. But that gives short shrift to a long, potent legacy. Of course, they can be crude, overdone and shoehorned in, but ...

Jump scares are a collective effort between screenwriters, directors, editors, sound designers, and many other artisans. Let’s take a look at this moment in the deer scene from Jordan Peele’s ...

Mike Flanagan has faced his worst fear: The jump scare. The “Midnight Mass” and “Haunting of Hill House” mastermind packed 21 separate instances of the classic horror trope into the ...

So my whole career I’ve completely just sh-t on jump scares as a concept, and now I want to make sure that it was pinned to me as much as it is to the show and Netflix and all of us who have ...

One of the the most old fashioned techniques used by filmmakers is the humble jump scare - when something unexpected happens in an instant to get you leaping off your seat in shock.

A new Chrome extension called TabBoo’s solution is to randomly trigger full screen jump scares and use aversive conditioning to deter you from returning. There’ s a sound ...

The Haunting of Hill House has arguably one of the most effective jump scares in modern horror television. We shared which ...

One of the most common staples in horror films is the jump scare. This technique involves having a character enter a threatening situation, then get lulled into a false sense of safety, and then ...

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! That’s likely what Jenna Ortega summoned when her co-star and the film’s protagonist, Michael Keaton, scared her on set.. The 21-year-old actress is set ...

Jump scare haters, beware of Netflix’s new series “The Midnight Club.”. The show, a horror mystery-thriller that debuted on October 7, has broken a world record for its plethora of jump ...

The power of the jump scare rests in a lull shattered by the suddenness and creativity of the shock. Alfred Hitchcock knew what he was doing. Even more than the jolt, though, there is something ...