From the start of my movie days, I’ve preferred jump cuts to jump scares, which are generally easy tricks underlined by a blunt music blast. (Haydn’s “Surprise” symphony got the jump on ...

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.

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

Not all horror movies rely on gore and jump scares. Some tap deep into our emotions, wrap them in vintage vibes, and haunt us ...

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 ...

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 ...

Terrified without a single loud noise? Yup, that’s the magic of slow-burn horror. In this video, we spotlight three ...

‘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.