Thoughts on jump scares?

thoughts on jump scares?

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Fine when they're properly set up and not abused. They should never be the primary source of scares in your movie.

Think about the blood test in the thing. Its a textbook jumpscare executed perfectly.

It's a blue board.
Just go on the rule34 booru, it's all there.

They are alright if it's not a horror movie. In horror movies jump scares are just cheap and lazy way to make the viewer feel something during the movie.

BOO!

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Every movie gets one

they're cheap and i hate hate HATE them!

My uncle died of cardiac arrest at the scene in The Ring (US) with the girl in the closet. He was 28 years old and it turns out that he had a heart defect.

they fucking suck and are literally the worst.

horror movies rely sorely on jump scared to be scary and regular movies rely on them to add tension, even if its end in a funny scene.

They are dumb as fuck.

one of the worst channels on youtube

really?

>lose an uncle
>get dubs

That's kinda funny, but still rip.

Are you for real? Horror movies are the only place they belong. Fucking annoying outside of it.

DELETE THIS, THIS ISN'T /x/

Good for cheap spooks but in a nonhorror film or anything where it's not choreographed it's a dick move.

the jumpscare itself is not bad
the thing is that it gets way to much build up these days in horror films

How? Based on that video alone, he seems cool.

he thinks he's the end all be all of film analysis and even criticizes his peers for how they interpret films

this one was too much, that's for sure

Yeah, he had been out all weekend boozing and living it up. He got home Sunday and died that evening while watching Ring with his wife. She thought he was playing at first.

>She thought he was playing at first.

hilariously depressing. did she look around during the funeral hoping he'd pop out of somewhere and prove the corpse is fake

it sucks in horror movies

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i nearly shit myself when i saw this, didn't expect it at all
damn you lynch

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This 1000%
I hate retards who say "FUCK JUMPSCARES" or "RECOMMEND ME A MOVIE WITH NO JUMPSCARES"

All of the commonly agreed "best" horror movies have "jumpscares" in them. Like anything else, the key is just to execute them well and not rely on them.

Anyone who disagrees is objectively a moron.

What am I supposed to be looking at?

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FUCK YOU DAVID

Getting legit anxious here

They're to be used sparingly. Don't linger on them. The Thing's blood test is a fantastic example, or when the alien is just IN the air shaft in Alien. They should add to the overall atmosphere of the movie.

>Horror movies are the only place they belong.
Jump scares work pretty well for comedy as well desu.

Mulholland drive diner scene

this

what I hate about jump scares is how so many filmmakers decide to make them as loud as possible. it's not even a scare half the time, just startling people with shrill music

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Dude please don't do that,

I have a weak heart.

>referencing "watch mojo"
>that annoying voice
>calls himself swagfaggot or something on twitter
>*shot of character walking into wilderness* "this represents the character returning to the wilderness*
NYSI is probably the worst film """analysis""" channel on youtube.

>>*shot of character walking into wilderness* "this represents the character returning to the wilderness*
source llol

What are some other good channels like this one? I like that kind of analysis vids, but I don't know any youtube channels.

>See Jumpscares thread

somehow I knew this was going to be here, I could see the posts THROUGH the thread

When utilized properly (sparingly, and not for false scares), they can be phenomenally effective. Have you ever been startled by something in real life? It should be just like that. Overuse dilutes the effect.

Here's an old example that I've seen a million times and it always gets me: the dead body under water early on in Jaws...MASTERFUL.

Here's a more recent example of a highly effective one (in a movie that people said had no jump scares): near the end of The Witch, when the father comes out of the house in the morning and stops, staring, stupefied by the aftermath of what's happened during the night, and then out of nowhere black phillip gores the FFFUUUCK out of him. I've seen The Witch ten times now and I somehow always miss that it's coming. Why? The smart use of genuine misdirection plus the father's apparent confusion before literally bringing out of left field. Again, absolutely masterful.

Some jump scares really aren't jump scares. I mean, I'm expecting a pop up scream or some bullshit because the music is a generic ominous thing. I think they filmmakers need to stop that if they're trying to do actual jump scares.

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Jumpscares are ok once or maybe twice in a movie. It still feels cheap but I'm ok with it as long as it's not the only thing the director can do.

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Every Frame a Painting

not one of your points is actually valid, congratulations

this also Nerdwriter1, although not every video of his is about cinema
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If you went into a movie in a universe where jumpscares never existed and were a completely foreign concept, would there be anything to be scared of knowing that all the atmosphere and such ultimately had no threat behind it? Surely the scariest a movie could be would be "unsettling". Even in the best jumpscare free horror movies that people hold up today your brain is expecting them from years of conditioning, which helps create free tension.

What is this?

pre-jump

watch Mulholland Dr.

Is it the Woman with the disfugured face? I once saw a thread about it here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sSa9lbDT7g

Natural selection

>ITT: A BUNCH OF PUSSIES

i guess you fags need "Trigger warning: jump scares" in your movies.

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3spooky5me

edgy

>people criticize the use of jumpscares as a cheap way of inciting reactions from the audience
>ERF BUNCHA FEGGETS GROW UP UGH

Tell me about the Woman!
Why is her face disfigured?

I guess if someone shot your foot you'd need a "trigger warning: searing gunshot pain" because you'd be triggered by the firearm wound.
Stop being triggered pussy

DON'T

My sister won't watch lord of the rings because this scene scared her.
She's fucking 40.

No matter how many times I rewatch TDK, this part always gets me. Comes out of nowhere.

Yeah, my uncle went on a vacation where he wasn't sleeping for four days because be did so much tequila, cocaine and thai hookers. Anyway, on the last day he died from laughing too hard at Blazing Saddles

That movie killed him, should be banned tbqhwyf

MR SANDMAN

Well, this jumpscare was just so out of place and weird. Why did his skin, eyes and teeth change like that in a second, then change back? Smeagol turned into Gollum by being too close for the ring and gradually changed his skin etc. This is just odd.

pleb spotted

and nothing of value was lost

Spookin my guts out over here

One of my biggest complaints about those movies is PJ used CG to replace acting in several lame shots. That one is the worst.

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My butthole puckered just from those stills. As a grizzled horror fan, that could just be the most scared I've ever been watching a movie. I ran in to Patrick Fischler at a Starbucks years ago and told him so and it was his portrayal of genuine terror that sold the scene. He was very nice and shook my hand.

Obligatory. I generally detest jump scares, but the nurses' station scene in The Exorcist III is so masterfully done.

Good thing he watched the movie, probably nobody would have known otherwise.

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P U R E S T K I N O G R A P H I Q U E

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all of those channels are fucking awful holy shit

He criticized fucking Watchmojo, that's not a peer

>Ghost girl's face peering out the middle window

I hope I'm not the only one who sees it

Nice.

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