Aamil shared, “Jump scares worked 20 years ago because the audience knows what to expect. As writers and makers, we have to be ahead of the game by giving what the audience is expecting but ...

In the meantime, however, it seems Counter-Strike 2 is hiding a petrifying, jump-out-of-your-seat visual glitch, specifically when you try to claw back some CS2 HP using the health shot.

The result is not a jump scare so much as a bunny hop. Insidious: The Red Door Rated PG-13 for explicit violins and implicit violence. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes. In theaters.

But jump scare frequency hit a near-20-year low in 2021. Audiences are still seeing more jump scares than they did in the less-startling 1990s, but the shrieking alley cats, slamming doors and ...