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Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a creepy face, usually co-occurring with a ...
Theatrical release poster for the American horror film The Black Cat (1934). In films and television series, Psychological horror generally differ from traditional horrors, where the source of the fear is typically something material, such as grotesque or horrifying creatures, monsters, serial killers, or aliens, [1] as well as the splatter and slasher film genres, which derives its ...
The Gorge is a 2025 American science fiction romantic action film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Zach Dean. [2] It stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Sigourney Weaver.
Even more specifically, the horror movie tropes you, the readers of BuzzFeed, are sick of seeing. Maybe you can't stand so-called "torture porn" movies that emphasize gory body horror, such as The ...
Hopepunk describes works such as books, movies, and television shows, that reveal hope in the face of challenges and act as a counter to pessimism. [7] Scholar Elin Kelsey describes it as "a narrative of positive resistance" and contrasts it with noblebright , which takes as its premise that not only are there good fights worth fighting, but ...
Films reproduce tropes of other arts and also make tropes of their own. [6] George Bluestone wrote in Novels Into Film that in producing adaptations, film tropes are "enormously limited" compared to literary tropes. Bluestone said, "[A literary trope] is a way... of packed symbolic thinking which is specific to imaginative rather than to visual ...
Chillerama is a 2011 American horror comedy anthology film consisting of four stories (or segments) that take place at a drive-in theater playing monster movies. Each segment is a homage to a different genre and style. The first is "Wadzilla" and was directed and written by Adam Rifkin spoofing 1950s monster movies.
STATE OF THE ARTS: On paper, Nintendo’s new animated film is a fittingly reverent ode to one of gaming’s seminal franchises. But you can only devour so many Easter eggs before growing nauseous ...