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 ...

Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for multiple TV shows.Jump scares have become so ingrained in the horror genre that it's hard to imagine the genre without them. They're crucial, in a sense.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In horror fandom circles, movies with a lot of jump scares are often sneered at. Some consider jump scares a cheap way to make ...

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 ...