Simon Dillon
Oct 13, 2022

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Or what Mark Kermode calls "cattle-prod" cinema. I'll say this though: A jump scare can work provided there is a suspenseful build-up and genuine horror felt around it. But lazily forcing a jump to make up for poor writing is exactly what you claim - ie not horror.

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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