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jump scare (plural jump scares)

1. (narratology, film, television, video games) A sudden, unexpected and startling event in media designed to frighten the audience.
   • 2011, Mira Grant, Deadline‎, Orbit, published 2011, →ISBN:

     They'd do something horrible, maybe kill off a few protagonists, and then make people sit around waiting for the next terrible thing to come along. They called it “setting up a jump scare.”

   • 2011, John Rosenberg, The Healthy Edit: Creative Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie, Focal Press, →ISBN, pages 80–81:

     Drag Me to Hell capitalizes on the jump scare, scattering it liberally throughout the film to the point where it becomes almost numbing.

   • 2013, Jeffrey Bullins, “Hearing the Game: Sound Design”, in James Aston, editor, To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 188:

     This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:jump scare.
2. (figuratively, humorous, by extension) The sudden arrival or advent of something unpleasant.

   white woman jump scare

3. (figuratively) A fright caused by this.

   The loud knock at the door gave me a terrible jump scare.

動詞

jump scare (third-person singular simple present jump scares, present participle jump scaring, simple past and past participle jump scared)

1. (transitive, film, television, video games) To frighten (an audience) by means of something that happens suddenly without warning.

Further reading

• jump scare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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jumpscare (plural jumpscares)

1. Alternative form of jump scare.
   • 2011 January 27, [ste parker], “Re: BA Alan Wake”, in uk.games.video.misc‎ (Usenet):

     I sit shaking in fear and shock from the horrible jumpscare.

   • 2011, Justin Mancini, "'Paranormal Activity 3' delivers more of the same scares", The Signal (College of New Jersey), Volume 135, Number 8, 20 October 2011, page 21:

     Do you like jumpscares? Well then, here's your movie!

   • 2013, Patrick Shanahan, "Insidious Chapter 2 Falls Flat", The Record (Saint Louis Priory School), Volume 44, Issue 5, 27 September 2013, page 6:

     It seemed that for every legitimate moment of tension and terror caused by Wan's brilliant style of camerawork (of which there surprisingly weren't many), there was a cheap jumpscare that just made you think: “Did they really just do that to me?”

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jumpscare (third-person singular simple present jumpscares, present participle jumpscaring, simple past and past participle jumpscared)

1. Alternative form of jump scare.