For a jump scare to work there has to be some build-up in preceding tension that climaxes and is relieved by the jump scare.
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As it widens, bankers are bracing for a jump scare.
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Some were just grateful that OP didn't post a jump scare.
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These aren't mere jump-scare grunts, blurted out of gut instinct.
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It's the biggest jump-scare the show has served up yet.
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It's a fun action sequence, but starts with a jump scare.
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As for the horror, the biggest jump scare belongs to a bunny.
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You'll maybe remember that wimpy yelp you released after that jump-scare.
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EVERY good horror-film director knows the secret of the "jump scare".
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Sometimes it's the jump scare that pops up out of no where.
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I've shouted involuntarily at the jump-scare moments in Silent Hill games.
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It's a classic jump-scare that quickly introduces fear into the trailer.
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How long this person survives in A Quiet Place: Seconds before first jump scare.
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The game is called Emily Wants To Play and it's basically a jump scare title.
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Then, in the final frame, one last jump scare confirms a demonic entity—her mother?
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YouTuber Spewaks made a version of the meme complete with a jump scare at the end.
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I'm reaching a point where I think the jump scare is the lamest, limpest form of horror.
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While it's more of a psychological tickler than straight horror game, expect a jump scare or three.
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Seriously, there's not even a quick tease or jump-scare or over-the-shoulder shot or anything!
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Awesome. Here is a horrific fake-out snake attack that really delivers in the jump scare department.
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At one point, there is a jump scare with a clown that made me lose my mind.
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If Phoebe and Rachel possessed more Unagi, they wouldn't have been so shaken by Ross' jump scare.
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That was the only jump scare in the whole movie for me — The bulldozer coming through the wall?
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This isn't the first time DeGeneres has pranked stars that visit her show with a big jump scare.
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And the uncomfortable feelings don't come in a jump scare, but in a cruel portrayal of someone's reality.
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Edge of Nowhere is also careful about deploying the most effective trick for VR horror: the jump scare.
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There is nothing meaner than a jump scare, particularly when you know your friend (victim) doesn't like jump scares.
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If you want to watch the video, be sure to prep yourself for the jump scare at the end!
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But that happens midway through the trailer, after which things deescalate to a nose bleed and another jump scare.
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As songs like "Dirt" ominously tiptoe through cobwebbed arpeggiations, it's hard not to prepare yourself for a jump-scare.
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He no longer needs horses or wagons, having been turned into a flaming jump-scare machine at Last Hearth.
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It has elements horror fans will know well, like jump-scare sounds and the occasional jolt from Marco Beltrami's score.
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At one point he suffers a jump scare to which he simply adjusts his Galaxy Gear VR headset and smiles.
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The ad shows an on-screen volume indicator turning all the way down followed by a jump scare of a nun.
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Its particular flavor of elaborate, genteel nightmare is unusual, but it's as effective as any jump-scare-laden, blood-spattered slasher.
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This is more of action sequence than straight horror, but we're warning you anyway since a jump scare starts it all.
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They often did away with the simple jump scare (Rings has terrible jump scares ) that was so popular in American film.
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"When I think a jump scare is about to happen I mostly look away until the threat is over," she explained.
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How long this person survives in A Quiet Place: First jump scare The Loud Eater *Munch* *rustle* *burp* *munch* *crack* *smack* *burp.
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Her masterful manipulation of 3D filmmaking is unexpected and strong; this is no red-and-blue glasses jump scare at the cinema.
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Again, that's the exact right use of a jump scare: you've invaded the imagination and players do the work of scaring themselves.
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The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which hits theaters on April 5, turns that very real tragedy into a cheap jump scare horror film.
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Rather than introducing Pennywise as an eerie anomaly, a glitch in the universe, the trailer presents the moment as a straightforward jump scare.
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There is not a single jump scare in sight and the period setting helps you feel removed from the events of the film.
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A particularly infamous jump scare involves a car making its way through a peaceful, green scene before a screamer lurches into the frame.
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Sure, this is technically a cheap jump scare, but as mentioned, there are a ton of smoke and mirrors littered across this movie.
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It gave the songs the feeling of a jump-scare—that, at any second, you could be accosted by something unnatural and alarming.
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It's a solid jump scare, made way more tense by the scenes surrounding it, and ends with a spectacularly gory death for Bowers.
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But there are seven kids in the Losers' Club, and all seven of them have to have jump-scare-filled personal encounters with Pennywise.
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But great horror movies usually use all the audiovisual tools at their disposal, and I have zero gripes with a perfectly executed jump-scare.
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By naturally starting the 360 image away from the frightening figure lurking in the corner, Ewings successfully creates a jump-scare with still photography.
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Psst, old people… that's a kid dressed as Bonnie, one of the terrifying creatures from the jump-scare video game Five Nights at Freddy's.
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All of a sudden, a strange entity attaches itself to the face of Kane (John Hurt), the executive officer, in a terrifying jump scare.
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Tex will come at you for the jump scare from a closet on your right, but if you can brave it, keep watching him.
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The filmmakers mostly don't artificially amplify or silence the world, but characters are so quiet that any sound at ordinary volume becomes a jump scare.
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YouTube doesn't allow "promotions that are likely to shock or scare" on its service, and the ad is unquestionably a cheap, yet effective jump scare.
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First, Laura's death by suicide, in which she shoots herself, is shown as a graphic jump scare within the first 15 minutes of the film.
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Jump scare fanatic Ellen DeGeneres sent her executive producer Andy Lassner and Chrissy Teigen into a haunted house — and their screams are truly something to behold.
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Modern horror tends to ping between the jump-scare antics of mainstream films and the more minimalist, existential dread of The Witch or Ari Aster's Hereditary.
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If you prefer unsettling, "makes you think" scary over more overt gory, jump-scare horror, take a page out of the Black Mirror book this Halloween.
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With sweaty palms and fists clenched in a need to maintain a know-it-all-rep, they'll predict the woefully predictable jump scare to all those within earshot.
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It's true even when it comes to attractions like traditional haunted houses, where many guests may just be looking for the visceral thrill of an effective jump scare.
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Despite the "jump" in "jump scare," what I realized while watching Burger Fiction's latest supercut is that movement really isn't what creates shock with these scenes: it's sound.
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The first time one of Alex's companions snaps into a very different demeanour, it's an effective jump scare – and Oxenfree has a few more up its sleeves, too.
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For the uninitiated, a "jump-scare" is when something uses loud noises in combination with scary imagery to illicit a fearful reaction — often, someone jumping out of their seat.
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While more jump-scare happy than the more subtle entries on the list, it still perfectly recreates the mounting dread of turning every corner of the Ishimura's cramped corridors.
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Capcom struck gold with Resident Evil, and later, it brought its tank controls, realistic prerendered backgrounds, and jump scare know-how to a sci-fi world filled with dinosaurs.
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The beloved talk show host had Lil Nas X on her show this week and pulled off yet another incredible jump scare — but Lil Nas X was expecting it.
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The movie, more a creeping mystery than a jump-scare shocker, follows main character Henry as he appraises the value of a huge secluded estate of the reclusive Mr. Remiel.
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Skarsgård's famously large eyes are A Lot in Castle Rock, so much so that the pilot episode times its first jump scare to the first time the audience sees them.
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"Friday's Brexit jump scare has faded, but markets are still worried" about the possible effects on global demand for risky assets, SLW brokerage trader João Paulo de Gracia Corrêa said.
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I think a lot of times in the genre, the character development gets short stripped and everyone focuses on the scares, the blood, and all the more obvious jump-scare stuff.
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"I am startled super easily, so you can imagine how much I dislike the idea of a jump scare in a movie," 39-year-old Broadway marketer, Sam Maher, told me.
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On Thursday, the Japanese star punk'd him with a jump scare (again) ... but his best work had to be the classic water bottle coin trick (c'mon, bro ... that one was obvious).
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For the last couple months, Washington has been on edge, like we are all trapped in Overlook Hotel with every day bringing a new "jump scare," often preceded by a telltale tweet.
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In his narration, the director Michael Chaves offers some thoughts about how to create the perfect jump scare, and how to build a sense of dread without relying heavily on visual effects.
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There are also repeated references to suicide when it comes to Grace's past, and particularly in a couple of scenes at the end, one of which depicts a hanging as another jump scare.
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It's of the same cloth as the only jump scare in Arrival, in which Amy Adams groggily hallucinates one of the movie's massive octopus-like aliens emerging from the corner of her work room.
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When the first production debuted in 2009 as A Midsummer Nightmare Haunted House, the scene was filled with jump-scare fests that simply lined audiences up and ran them through as quickly as possible.
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It's undeniably easy to scare someone by shocking them with a scary image and loud noises out of nowhere—what's more impressive is getting people to anticipate a jump scare and never delivering it.
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As a whole, the experience is lighter in tone than the jump-scare fests that some may look for in Halloween haunted houses, and it stops short of the psychological theatrics of something like Blackout.
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Everything about the Homecoming center is bland and minimalist — "hip but masculine," Colin calls the décor — and "Homecoming" understands that anonymous spaces, euphemism and depersonalized corporate-speak can be more terrifying than any jump scare.
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YouTube announced this week that it will stop running an ad for Conjuring spinoff The Nun featuring a jump scare, because the clip is apparently just way, way, way too goddamn scary for people, Variety reports.
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Good news for It fans: In contrast to the jump-scare-courting first clip, this trailer seems to be steeped in King's landscape of childhood fears and uncontrollable imagination — and it's much more effective for it.
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Included in the bequest is the usual creepy housekeeper (introduced in familiar jump-scare fashion), a book on Satanism, and villagers who eye her with the shifty hostility of their counterparts in many a previous horror movie.
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This week: Amazon gets the biggest jump scare of its lifeWho could blame Jeff Bezos if he jumped out of his seat in terror when the Pentagon announced the winner of the vaunted $10 billion JEDI cloud contract?
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The response in the room was the same one-two backdraft that you get from a keyed-up crowd at a horror movie when confronted with a jump-scare moment—a collective seizing gasp, and then release into hapless laughter.
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"Our House" distinguishes itself with its purposeful pacing — the first real jump scare arrives more than a third of the way through — its use of sound and crosscutting, and its wit with household objects, from a turntable to a mechanical calendar.
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At one point, a jump cut from one scene to a completely different one is used as a jump scare, and while this tactic provoked the desired response in the audience I saw the film with, it was also lazy and uninspired.
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It's best understood through visuals: And it's not just your inability to see more than a few feet in front of you, it's the way enemies spring out, as if a jump scare in a horror movie, and chase you from the darkness.
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There's a classic one in Alien, where Harry Dean Stanton thinks he's stalking the alien, but it's just his ship's cat — but the jump scare there has a twist, because it makes him drop his guard, and the scene does eventually go somewhere terrifying.
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Even if they tended to be optional areas where you might pick up a health pack, or find an upgrade, or kill a stray enemy, or encounter a jump scare, that very optional-ness made them crucial to the game's performance of a believable space.
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A Chair in a Room (Android) Supernatural mystery story Chair in a Room is a better-than-usual version of the classic "VR jump scare" experience, putting you in a decrepit old house with limited battery life and some malevolent things in the shadows.
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As the years go by, we progress through the days of Internet Explorer 6 and pop-up ads, AIM, eBay, Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Skype, and viral jump scare videos, as they capture the family's domestic life and Margot's transition from childhood to teenage years.
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CineFix's list (they're are obviously spoilers and NSFW scenes involved):The Shining's elevator scene - existential doom and dreadDon't Look Now's murder scene- Being inside the horrorCache - Human psyche perversionThe Exorcist - Spider Walk - Human body perversionMulholland Drive's diner scene - DreadZodiac's basement scene - SuspenseJaw's floating head scene - Jump scare
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His desperate grasping at Sam in hopes of learning whether Dany has landed in Westeros made for an effective jump scare, one slightly ruined by Iain Glen's name showing up in the opening credits — thus causing me to keep wondering when he was going to pop up.
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But it's worth taking a step back from the propulsion of this teaser, and noting that A24 has also released some pretty deceptive trailers, making films like The Witch and It Comes at Night look much more like intense, conventional jump-scare horror movies than they actually are.
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When things get very quiet and you know a jump scare is coming, blocking out the audio cue that accompanies the sudden gnashing of monster teeth or the glint of a knife can keep your heart rate down, or at least stop you from screaming out loud in public.
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The pre-roll ad was so short that YouTube wouldn't even let you skip it, so even if you knew the jump scare was coming, all you could do was try to frantically mute the volume or just cover your ears and cower until the whole thing was done.
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The most pronounced spike in my heart rate doesn't happen fighting the gigantic, skeletal High Lord Wolnir with his stupid explosive jewelry, or because of the nasty Lovecratian jump scare on the bridge to Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, or facing goddamn fucking Aldrich (Devourer of Gods), oh no.
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One of the things that makes King's novels so familiar and beloved is that they allow kids to be kids in the middle of mounting horror, and after a first trailer that framed the film as a more conventional jump-scare-driven property, this scene feels like a much-needed return to the fundamentals.
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You always get a clear warning that a jump scare or something bloody is about to go down: Gilpin dramatically cocks a shotgun before she shoots, Athena slowly winds up before using her high heel as an eye-pick, and you hear the pew of a bullet headed towards a character who is about to be toast.
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