Citations:jump scare

Noun: "(narratology) the technique, typically used in horror films and video games, of having something occur suddenly and without warning to frighten the audience"

 * 2011, Mira Grant, Deadline, Orbit (2011), ISBN 9780316134262, unnumbered page:
 * 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 Landis, Monsters in the Movies: 100 years of Cinematic Nightmares, DK Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780756683702, page 109:
 * JL: There was also one jump scare really [sic] got me in that film.
 * 2011, John Rosenberg, The Healthy Edit: Creative Techniques for Perfecting Your Movie, Focal Press (2011), ISBN 9780240814469, 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.
 * 2012, Jeff Sampson, Havoc, Balzer + Bray (2012) ISBN 9780061992780, unnumbered page:
 * If this was a horror movie, the director totally would have done that as an easy jump scare.
 * 2013, Jeffrey Bullins, "Hearing the Game: Sound Design", in To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror (ed. James Aston), McFarland & Company (2013), ISBN 9780786470891, page 188:
 * This quiet is broken suddenly with an initial jump scare of the puppet's iconic laughter.