Citations:jump-scare

English citations of jump-scare

Noun: "alternative spelling of jump scare"

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• 1995, Film Review, Issues 12-13, unknown page:

  There's jump-scares a-plenty and all the obvious manipulation that goes into making a fright-flick work.

• 1999, Cinefantastique, Volume 31, Issues 7-11, page 60:

  The film is seldom suspenseful, but the jump-scares are there, and the gross-out images (courtesy of Greg Cannom's makeup) are carefully pushed over-the-top and into the comic stratosphere.

• 2005, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 109, page 94:

  […] eschews that tried-and-true tactic of horror films, the jump-scare; […]

• 2012, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack: 150 Practical Pointers for Becoming a Better Screenwriter, Focal Press (2012), →ISBN, page 103:

  Jump-scares, suspense, and sudden violence are all a major part of the horror genre.

• 2013, Scot Sotherrn, Cub Service: A Memoir, Soft Skull Press (2013), →ISBN, page 185:

  Walking through the dark, I felt like I was drawing to a movie jump-scare.