A contender for this year’s best horror picture, ‘Weapons,’ is part of film traditions that conjure terror out of stillness, partly through jump scares.

Skinamarink, the buzzy experimental horror movie now streaming on Shudder, has discovered something: If you punctuate your exceedingly quiet, mumbly film with one or two loud, piercing noises, you can ...

You may argue that a standard jump scare is a pretty cheap tactic in virtually any medium. Using sudden sounds or images, these unexpected moments have started to become mundane and are played out by ...

It’s one of the most well-worn tricks in the horror handbook: An innocent victim is minding their own business, nothing happening, and then…something happens to make the watcher’s heart skip a beat.

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

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