As long as horror movies have existed, they've all figured out different ways to scare the viewer. Be it by building a slow sense of dread over time that culminates in an anxiety-fueled climax, or by ...

Ghosts are known to go bump in the night without any warning. Perhaps that's why so many paranormal movies are haunted by jump scares. "Haunted" is the verb to use here because it evokes either ...

Daniel is a 27-year-old List Writer for Collider living in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As an avid film buff, he watches and analyzes many films and TV shows, especially in the horror genre ...

It’s one of the most well-worn tricks in the horror handbook: An innocent victim is minding their own business, nothing happening, and then…something happens to make the watcher’s heart skip a beat.

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After working on three Stephen King movies, Sleepwalkers (1992), The Life of Chuck (2024), and now The Long Walk (2025), Mark Hamill feels a strong connection to the horror best-seller's collective ...

Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn sparked laughs on set when a lighthearted moment between the two was caught on camera. The playful exchange, shared as part of recent Fantastic Four bloopers, quickly ...

Horror has many tropes, but one of the biggest is the jump scare. They've become commonplace in the genre over the decades as an easy way to get an audience to react, but while some, such as in ...

Fall is the season that horror hounds spend the whole year dreaming about. It’s not just the incipient chill in the air but also the forward march toward Halloween — aka Christmas for scare addicts — ...

Is there a website you can’t stop visiting that’s killing your productivity? A new Chrome extension called TabBoo’s solution is to randomly trigger full screen jump scares and use aversive ...