jump scare

Resident Evil is often cited as the first video game to use jump scares.

In a horror movie, somebody can jump out of a window, and you get that jump scare.

And just when the episode had us believe that maybe they were all overreacting, it ended with a jump scare for the ages.

The jump scare has been described as "one of the most basic building blocks of horror movies".

In the 1979 film When a Stranger Calls, an unconventional jump scare was used.

If she catches the player character, the player experiences a jump scare and is sent back to the beginning of the current loop.

There's a lot of different ways to approach that, there's the jump scare or more terror-induced scare.

Common elements of horror displayed throughout such games include a startle scare, or a "jump scare".

It delivers more on atmosphere and psychological terror, where other survival horror games rely on jump scares and gore.

While others criticized the low budget nature of the film and gratuitous use of jump scares and inclusion of heavy drama from the main characters.

After seeing the audience reaction to jump scares in Kenny and Company, writer/director Don Coscarelli decided to do a horror film as his next project.

However, the sound design in general is superb, particularly when using the radio and tape recorder to create an effect that's at least as scary as any survival horror jump scare.

There's no genuine terror - the horror comes primarily in the form of jump scares and squirms, like when Fisher's cop gets a pair of scissors run through her hand.

An entire e-sports industry has grown up around the idea of gaming as a spectator sport, and streaming subcultures have developed around everything from speedruns to jump scares to Minecraft.

Although predictable, there were one or two jump scares which kept the audience on their toes and the supporting cast headed by Dominic West and Rufus Sewell gave dynamic performances.

As the film approaches its 20th anniversary this month, Yahoo Movies talked to MacKay about his audition, the 14-hour makeup process, and how a real-life surprise created the movie's biggest jump scare.

To activate these, Polterguy must jump into the object that has a Fright 'em glowing on it to "load" the object for a jump scare to one of the family members.

More frustrating though is the fact that these monster jump scares seem so unnecessary - it's as if the developer threw them in after worrying that they were deviating too far from horror game conventions.

A character may slowly walk towards a door, a cupboard, a closet or a hallway to check out a suspicious sound or movement, only to be given a jump scare by the fact that it was "only a cat."

A jump scare is a technique often used in horror films and video games, intended to scare the audience by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually co-occurring with a loud, frightening sound.

"Paranormal Activity 4" is in many ways one big setup, building to a single, inevitable what's-behind-you jump scare and then a rollicking finale — one that implies a deeper mythology, opening the door (but of course) for another sequel.

Kauto Star may have produced his share of jumping scares in past years, but it was as if a long-awaited maturity had suddenly taken hold, and with commendable nimbleness he came home the winner by a length and three quarters from Long Run, with 17 lengths back to Captain Chris in third.

Indie Game Magazine praised the first game's artistic design, commenting that "it's an incredibly terrifying experience to try to save yourself from the single jump scare that ends the game" and that it was a "fantastic example of how cleverness in design and subtlety can be used to make an experience terrifying".

It also mocks the main character's decisions in Pet Sematary when Peter buried Francis' body at the same cemetery to resurrect him, but decided against it after Francis, as a zombie, jumped out of the grave in a jump scare, remarking "Okay, maybe I'll bury him in a regular cemetery."

The film was deemed "slightly annoying" in a review for DVD Verdict written by David Johnson, who concluded his coverage of Sight with, "A well-acted horror film that relies too heavily on the jump scare and a twist ending that fails to wow, Sight probably isn't worth taking a look at".