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 ...

What makes a movie “scary”? The amount of blood and gore shown onscreen, like in Sinners? The unpredictable jump scares that The Conjuring films execute so well at? Or is it the mere suggestion of an ...

Fans may be surprised to find out how the horror movie community responded. Many users agreed with this take, with Neuwim's ...

The jump scare is perhaps the most well-known trope in all cinema. From children watching their first scary movie to adults who have seen almost everything, the jump scare is something no one can ...

It’s a big, scary world out there, but that’s never stopped us from some additional big screen thrill-seeking. While some movies are scarier than the sum of their parts, we’re getting a little more ...

It's officially Halloween week, meaning you may have already blown through all your favorite scary movies. But All Hallow's Eve is this week! You can't stop with the spookiness now. We all know about ...

Even when it’s hosting a night of spook-ems, there’s something cozy and reassuring about walking into Jarvis Square Theater, the long-standing pint-sized Rogers Park blackbox within earshot of the ...

Do you love horror and other ~scary~ things? Subscribe to the That Got Dark newsletter to get your weekly dopamine fix of the macabre delivered RIGHT to your inbox! For the record, the lines were ...

Most of the time, when a horror movie is teased as being the scariest movie ever made, it just means that it will give you a couple of cheap scares and, if you’re lucky, a nightmare or two. And there ...

Within every subcommunity within the greater games hobby, there are always certain design “rules.” For example, in point and click games, pixel hunting—that is, making the player spend too much time ...

49ers running back Christian McCaffrey (23) warms up prior to the game against the Buffalo Bills Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images Horror movies have jump scares. It is just a fact of life. If you’re ...