While atmospheric horror is still popular, the kind of jump scares in this 83-year-old classic are nearly obsolete today, but ...

Looking to scare yourself this Halloween? These five Netflix movies will have you jumping out of your seat in pure terror.

Zach Cregger's Weapons is a masterclass in jump scares, as it proves that the best horror movies use this trope to expand the ...

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 ...

From Twin Peaks to Stranger Things, these iconic TV jump scares will catch you off guard every time, and that's what makes ...

Chapter 2, Him, and The Conjuring: Last Rites are playing in theaters while streaming services house some serious horror heavy hitters at the same time. Luckily, television series aren’t immune to ...

The prequel series to Stephen King's 'It' uses real tales of torture to haunt its Jewish character, Teddy Uris.

A contender for this year’s best horror picture, ‘Weapons,’ is part of film traditions that conjure terror out of stillness, partly through jump scares.

Spooky season has arrived in the 305, with Miami morphing into a mash-up of haunted house frights, costume-clad nightlife, and tropical weirdness you won’t find anywhere else, period. If you’re ...

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors — wide-eyed and heart racing —to instinctively freeze and flee. Evolutionarily ...

All Things Considered producers Avery Keatley and Marc Rivers talk about movies that capture the eerie spirit of Halloween without the blood, gore, or jump scares.

Titled "The Pilot," this episode is brimming with nightmarish sequences, like a car ride from hell and the world's worst trip ...