Why do people act like they are too good for jump scares and movies are lame for using them...

Why do people act like they are too good for jump scares and movies are lame for using them? Isn't the popcorn flying after a long build of anticipation part of the fun of watching horror movies? There seems to be a serious hard-on for """psychological""" horror at the moment, like its more mature or """scarier"""(which is bullshit 99% of the time.)

>too good for jump scares and movies are lame for using them
jump scare startles you, it doesnt scare you.

It's predictable thus boring. I agree jumpscares are okay but psychological horror is way more intresting and intense

Jump scares aren't bad, but an over-reliance on them is. Having a quiet build up to a loud shrieking sound is a cheap "scare" that adds very little to the film.

This. The most effective jump "scare" I've ever seen was this one random bit in Big Momma's House where Martian Lawrence was walking around a dark house in goofy drag and all of a sudden the villain pops into frame. This illustrated to me how stupid and cheap jumpscares are. Plus they're always obvious as fuck too. Like if you're watching a cheap horror film, and and all of a sudden there's a quiet and tense moment, you already know that there's a high probability that you're about to be hit with a jump scare.

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Jumps are one of many tools to get the audience on edge. I think they work best at a cinema when everyone can sense one coming and the atmosphere is tense as hell - it is good fun.

I like a good mix.

>music swells
>music suddenly cuts out
>BOO HAHA GOT YOU

They're fucking gay

I think as far as jump scares go, The Conjuring series sets a pretty high bar for them. James Wan has mastered the art of the jump scare; he has so many moving elements and distractions scene to scene and so much buildup that I don't mind being startled by his films. He directs the flow of action really well.

It's a lot different when it's just a spooky house scene, all the sound fades out, then a cat jumps out and the music obnoxiously spikes. That shit is cheap.

suspense without jumpscares are better.. just look at Halloween or whatever, the suspense last a long time and a jumpscare would just kill it off..

Michael casually walking by a window in the dark is scarier than suddenly seeing his face in full screen for 1 second out of nowhere.. right?

The problem isn't the jump scares dipshit, it's that no movies can do them effectively anymore (unless you're a dumb female who are surprisingly the only people who like scary movies) Even if a movie could somehow squeeze in something that may make me jump, it's not worth it to sit through a 2 hour shitty plot of "ohhh my kids are haunted. oooooh this house belonged to a murder victim?"
Fuck scary movies and fuck you OP you faggot.

Why are youngfags always posting about how they're scared of moving images? Dont people grow out of that around 12-13?

Not even about being too good for jumpscares. It's just a cheap "scare". Just play a loud music chord and that's all there is to it. It's gotten to the point it doesn't even make me jump because it's so predictable when it's coming.

It takes a lot more effort to unsettle people on a deeper level. Jumpscares are easy mode.

Scary shit should leave you thinking about it in bed later that night.

A 'jump scare' takes no more artistic or directorial skill then blowing a trumpet in someone's ear. There's a place for them but to rely on this is fatal.

>Scary shit should leave you thinking about it in bed later that night.
How many movies actually accomplish this though?

There isn't a single horror movie in excistence that's actually scary so you should just make it well made and atmospheric. Jump scares are not only a cheap, they're obnoxious as fuck.

Not many. The ending of Mist is pretty haunting tho, even if the rest is silly as fuck.

If it's a jump scare based movie it is therefore automatically trash.
The cheapest most base uninspired way to try to add horror into a shitty production.

You're a fucking joke. Fuck off underage.

I like my horrors to be like an edging fap session and less like one ruined orgasm after another.
I prefer creepy horrors with atmosphere.

There's a time and a place for a well executed jump scare. Most of Lynch's films, while not being straight up horrors, manage to outdo a lot of horror movies because they are not always trying to make you jump, rather elicit an underlying uneasiness.

The jump scare should be one tool to make an audience scared, but too many horror movies use it as the only tool, resulting in a lot of quiet/BANG moments. All the great horror films have jump scares but they are few and far between, meaning they elicit a greater reaction.

Whats the name of that one again

The problem with jump scares is, that most aren't doing them right. They should be used sparingly and come unexpectedly. If I can tell a movie's building up to a jumpscare it has already failed.

For the perfect mix of psych horror and jump scares, see The Exorcist

The shining is one of the few, for me it's the only one so far

I agree. Lynch utilizes them brilliantly. The most obvious example being MD, with the only real jump scare at the very beginning, which by itself adds a lot of tension to the remainder of the film.

because jump scares don't stay with you, but something creepy done right, can worm itself into the back of your mind. It's the thing that you half expect to see when you look in the mirror for too long.

I disagree. Jump scares done right can also stay with you.

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The Descent with the dream scene is the only jump scare I genuinely liked, totally came out of nowhere.

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There's a reason these are the gold standards. They don't just attempt to scare you like a cheap carnival ride. There's a pervasive sense of dread that is created with care by a director working at the top of their game employing everything - writing, production design, shot selection, music, sound design, sfx, etc. to do more than just jump out from behind a corner and yell BOO. I'd throw in TCM and Alien as effective examples of quality as well.

Because horror movies back in the day left you in a constant state of dread. You had people that didn't want see horror movies before bedtime because they'd be too scared to sleep. You don't really see that anymore except for the youngest of children.

Jump scares are like if you tickle your friend and then say "I made you laugh so technically I'm funny". There's no skill involved, it's just a base instinctual response.

I think they have their place, it kind of depends on the film. Sometimes it's good to have jumpscares to cut down the tension so long as the movie does a good job of building it back up again. It shouldn't get to the point that I get desensitized to them. Sure they're "cheap" but fear is such a nuanced thing and preying on someone's reflexes is a fairly universal way to keep an audience on edge.