Citations:jump-scare

Noun: "alternative spelling of jump scare"

 * 1995, Film Review, Issues 12-13, unknown page:
 * There's jump-scares a-plenty and all the obvious manipulation that goes into making a fright-flick work.
 * 1999, Cinefantastique, Volume 31, Issues 7-11, page 60:
 * The film is seldom suspenseful, but the jump-scares are there, and the gross-out images (courtesy of Greg Cannom's makeup) are carefully pushed over-the-top and into the comic stratosphere.
 * 2005, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 109, page 94:
 * eschews that tried-and-true tactic of horror films, the jump-scare;
 * 2012, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack: 150 Practical Pointers for Becoming a Better Screenwriter, Focal Press (2012), ISBN 9780240818245, page 103:
 * Jump-scares, suspense, and sudden violence are all a major part of the horror genre.
 * 2013, Scot Sotherrn, Cub Service: A Memoir, Soft Skull Press (2013), ISBN 9781593765620, page 185:
 * Walking through the dark, I felt like I was drawing to a movie jump-scare.