And one of the movies with the most jump scares in recent years is the generally well-reviewed Stephen King adaptation, It, which has 20.

We were the only ones in the theater, which made it even worse. Every jump scare in that movie got me, but this one was the worst." — frenchfriesandramen2007 ...

Insidious' jump scares catch the audience in the moments when they least expect them. Any time you watch a horror movie, you can expect the killer to stand behind the protagonist as they close the ...

The aforementioned premise of Weapons is, what if a schoolteacher walked into her classroom one morning and no one was there?

A jump scare is like the punchline of a joke: the more out-of-nowhere and unexpected it is, the more effectively it works. Few films demonstrate this better than .

Sometimes, this horror trope is a cheap way to try to enliven a movie. Here are five of the worst examples of horror movie jump scares. by Robert Yaniz Jr. Published on November 26, 2022 2 min read ...

Cats have had more jump scares in horror history than any monster ever had. Narrator: Like in "The Amityville Horror" when one just appears outside the window.

‘Unfriended’ (2014) Sending movies out with a final jump scare is a play many horror movies use. And Unfriended — told nearly entirely through webcams — almost breaks its conceit to do so.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Scary movies are a classic Halloween tradition for some, but a popular technique used to scare folks in films is slowly going away. Horror film fanatics say a common way to ...