Here are five of the best horror movie jump scares that’ll send your heart rate skyrocketing. [Warning: This article contains jump scare spoilers from the following movies.] ‘Psycho’ (1960) ...

It breaks the rules by stripping away the genre’s crutches - no loud bangs, no ghostly figures, no overblown score. The fear ...

15 unforgettable horror movie jump scares. In the early ‘40s, as Universal was creating one classic monster movie after another, RKO was using shoestring budgets to crank out high-profit B horrors.

But sometimes, this horror trope is a cheap way to try to enliven a film. Here are five of the worst examples of horror movie jump scares. ‘The Amityville Horror’ (1979) ...

Horror games have, for some time, been ruled by the jumpscare. With games like Five Nights At Freddy's leading the modern horror scene, it's not hard to see why their wild successes led to many ...

There are numerous examples of this in horror films, where the jump scare and the loud sting come completely out of nowhere. Sure, you may be startled, but this fear won't last.

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There’s no soundtrack, just muffled sounds, flickering lights, and that one time a Reaper Leviathan screamed in my ear and I ...

Context is everything, though—jump scares can be a valid device in horror if it doesn't feel like the only thing the creators are throwing at you.

Jump Scares 101: How to Use Horror’s Most Startling Tool. By Mike Bedard | January 28, 2025. Photo Source: bbernard/Shutterstock It’s one of ...