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The "jump scare": how horror movies go about making you jump

Already present in films such as Repulsion by Polanski or Terence Young's Seule dans la nuit, this is probably one of the simplest techniques to scare the cinema: the jump scare . The idea? Surprise the viewer with an image that suddenly appears on the screen, accompanied by a loud noise or music, in order to make him jump. Become particularly popular with the boom of slasher movies (literally "ripper film" - sub-genre of the horror movie where a killer methodically eliminates a group of individuals usually with a stab) in the 80s, the jump scare is today a must-see horror film, which sometimes abuses it. Because too much to be used the technique gradually loses its effects. Explanations in pictures, on the occasion of the theatrical release of the remake Ça, adapted from the work of Stephen King.

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