The jump scare might have a bad rap, but it isn’t inherently cheap or lazy. It’s a tool like any other in a filmmaker’s arsenal, the same way a hammer can either help hang a painting or make ...

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 effects option to ...

A viral video circulating on social media has left netizens in splits, showing a monkey making a dramatic entrance via a car's sunroof, resulting in a shattered mess. The incident, caught on CCTV ...

When an X (formerly Twitter) user asked if the monkey was alright, the other replied with a GIF of a monkey using a phone and wrote, “Now the monkey is seeing his video.” A user had a ...

Jump-scares have been a staple of horror for almost as long as the genre has existed. And yet, it's one of the hardest filming techniques to execute effectively, as more often than not these ...

Though there are a handful of jump-scares, none of them have much pay-off. Except for one. While protagonist Maya is having a shower, there's a long shot of her washing her hair. As she takes a ...

At this point, you feel confidently prepared for the inevitable, maybe even lazy, “jump scare” about to take place on screen. The killer leaps from a closet, hatchet in hand, as the actor ...

The floor creaks, the music turns ominous and an uneasy quiet sets in. Then BAM! It’s the classic jump scare. This staple of horror movies, when done well, is instantly memorable. With Times ...

But for a player, it came across basically as a jump scare no matter how we utilized it, whether it was through this story narrative reason or for gameplay reasons." After all, no matter the ...

Kyle Rowley, the Game Director on Alan Wake 2, has revealed during a chat with Games Radar that he feels the team slightly overdid the jump scares in the critically acclaimed survival horror title.

Sarah Paulson is serving up some jump scares in her new movie "Hold Your Breath." According to the official synopsis, "In 1930s Oklahoma, amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman (Paulson ...