A defining component of the cinematic horror experience is the immediate, heart-pounding fright that only a great jump scare ...

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, 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 precipitously, according to Where’s The Jump, a remarkable ...

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 ...

“This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst,” Flanagan shared during a press conference earlier that day. “My whole career, people have ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Guinness adjudicator Andrew Glass presented the award live at NYCC and revealed that the minimum number to beat was 12 jump scares.) He continued, "And so in this project, we thought we were just ...