This was a really fun topic for discussion -- gotta' stand up for those jump scares!

@ryangodoy

4 жыл бұрын

Jump scares have feelings too

Great discussion that summed up my feelings perfectly. I’m also glad you brought up cgi since that’s something people are always talking about, and most of the time they act like it’s something cheap and lazy that automatically makes a movie worse. These things are tools that can be used properly or improperly, and they shouldn’t be judged just because they are sometimes misused. Overall great video, and it’s cool to see two of my favorite filmmakers on KZread collaborating.

@ryangodoy

4 жыл бұрын

So true! A good thing being misused doesn't make it lazy or bad. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch. Glad you enjoyed it!

Jump scares help the film if they're well made and have a purpose other than to just startle the audience like a hand touching a shoulder or a cat flying across the frame. It's very effective when it has a purpose. It helps with tension release and also prepares you for the bigger scares. Sinister is one good example to study how to design effective jump scares that works within the movie without pissing anybody off. I think it's an art and skill by itself as the purpose and the timing of it makes or breaks the film. If you can genuinely create some good scares and can support it with some authentic jump scares sprinkled throughout your film in moderation, you're going to have a pretty good movie in your hands assuming your story and the acting is too notch as well.

What I hate about jumpscares is the loud sound that normally acompanies them

@bluerabbit1236

5 ай бұрын

Dude that's the whole point of it 😂

Don't know if you'll see this but I'll add my two cents here. Jump scare discourse to me basically amounts to lazy criticism, and short hand to signal to your peers your “superior” taste. It doesn't actually matter how it's deployed, if it makes sense or even if it's not a fake out (common retort people use) the mere presence of them makes them bad regardless of the technical, thematic, or just plane execution of them, and is merely a get out of jail free card in place of criticizing the actual problems with the movie. The problem with something like The Bye-Bye Man isn't the jump scares, it's actually deeper. Same with actually good movies like Sinister, when the amount of tension, dread, and effective atmosphere built leading to the big moments are brushed over because self satisfied pedants just smugly chuckle about the jump scares and ghost kids. It’s a nit pick at the end of the day, and doesn’t actually help the genre in anyway, because if everything was just like Hereditary, and played to the respectability of the people who decided that horror was just trash, then you’ll get a flood of art school brats tripping over themselves, in self-satisfied glee, basically creating nothing but horror Oscar bait. New restrictions on the genre and just as soulless as the Platinum Dunes remakes people still bitch about 10 years after the stopped making them. Horror should be a canvas for everything. Be it an atmospheric, haunted house style thrill ride like Insidious or a more contemplative one like Hereditary. Enough with this stupid labels and categorizations! Horror is horror, and all of it belongs and has its place.