Luke has a degree in Film and Literature, and a degree in Journalism. He has previously written about topics from across the gaming and film industries, from covering awards shows, to individual ...

Squeaking doors, increasing heart-beat music, unexpected activities and a room filled with scared audience- haven’t we started forgetting what watching bone-chilling horror films in theatres meant ...

In horror fandom circles, movies with a lot of jump scares are often sneered at. Some consider jump scares a cheap way to make viewers feel fear, and many modern horrors have spurred the practice in ...

It’s one of the most well-worn tricks in the horror handbook: An innocent victim is minding their own business, nothing happening, and then…something happens to make the watcher’s heart skip a beat.

Fall is the season that horror hounds spend the whole year dreaming about. It’s not just the incipient chill in the air but also the forward march toward Halloween — aka Christmas for scare addicts — ...

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 ...