Jump scares are a contentious topic in horror. Some people love them, others feel that they're cheap. It's an easy way to elicit a fear response, and sometimes, it can feel like a storyteller is ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In horror fandom circles, movies with a lot of jump scares are often sneered at. Some consider jump scares a cheap way to make ...

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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.

Jump scares are the horror movie equivalent of fart jokes. They're cheap, easy, and rarely deployed with any sense of timing or invention. But if executed with élan, they can jolt an entire audience ...