Cheap/fake scares...

[DizzyMoo3]

I think Horror movies need those cheap/fake scares sometimes in order to work and scare people...They always set you up with a character walking and it's all quiet and then as the person accidentally bumps into another person the music goes real loud for a second and gets a scare in. That always annoys me when it does make me jump and then afterwards it's all good. What do you all think about the infamous cheap/fake scares?

[screamfan]

i don't like them and sometimes its just really stupid like the cat at the begining of friday the 13th part 2

[hoy_man]

the original halloween was chalked full of the fake scares....i cant think of any other horror that matched it

[psychopath]

What about "Childsplay 2"?

[Adidas03]

Half of the deaths in Halloween 7 were done cheaply, when the camera wasn't on them. Sure it can be good when there are a lot of killings, but like in this instance the movie was thin to begin with.

[Horror whore]

What lies Beneath had alot of them!

[DizzyMoo3]

Yeah "What Lies Beneath" has it's share. "The Haunting" didn't have any of those..."The Haunting" might have been a little better if it had some of those scares...even if they were "real" because that's what always makes me jump..those scares where the music gets loud for a second..I always know when it's going to happen and it still makes me jump occasionally. /ubb/rolleyes.gif

[cereal killer]

For a movie to work you need some cheap scares not a lot and you definitely need some real scares it always works best when the scares are about equal.

[AntonioDelLago]

The cheap scare that I really hate is when a cat jumps into sight out of the middle of nowhere. You can tell that some prop guy is just throwing the cat into view from behind the camera.

[Cannon Fodder]

The "Spring-loaded cat" (A phrase from badmovies.org I think) has become such a cliche. It's not even that realistic, cats don't even behave like that. Even worse, is the cliche of having the real death ten seconds after the fake scare. If the cat scares you like that, get the hell out of where ever you are quickly, as the psycho is garaunteed to get you straight after it happens.

[hoy_man]

Child's Play did indeed have some good ones....I just found with Halloween when he actually did kill it wasn't a jump, he just came slowly out of the shadows. Like the girl going in the laundry room with like 3 fake scares then she (i think) gets killed in her car with no real jump at all.