What is a “jumpscare”? Well, if you live in a home without teenagers to explain it to you, it’s the thing that happens when you’re watching a horror movie and some abrupt sound, image, or other bump ...

In horror fandom circles, movies with a lot of jump scares are often sneered at. Some consider jump scares a cheap way to make viewers feel fear, and many modern horrors have spurred the practice in ...

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For a show built on nostalgia, Stranger Things has a knack for delivering shocks that feel anything but old-school.

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These horror games turn silence into a weapon, using atmosphere and tension to create fear far more unsettling than jump scares.

Horror remakes have a bad reputation, but an iconic early 2000s horror remake that just started streaming on Paramount+ is ...