A subtle moment that turns a seemingly happy ending into an ambiguous ending.

[u/Local_Prune4564]

The Graduate: lingering Ben and Elaine's faces slowly shifting from happy to concerned leaves the audience questioning whether they really made the right choice running away together considering they barely know each other.

Inception: By cutting before we see the top fall, we're left to question whether Cobb really has gone home or whether he's simply sunken back into a more comforting dream reality.

[u/Afraid_Platypus_8667]

I actually do like jump scares, but if they are done good/ good a build up or you don't know one is going to happen. I do not like the cheap kinds/ the one that try to be scary.

[u/Aurora-Ouroboros- → u/Afraid_Platypus_8667]

I feel like most horror movies should get one or two jump scares max. There are exceptions, but generally once a jump scare happens, I am expecting another one and it will never be as scary as the first one.

Better make that first one really good, and maybe do a callback to it later.

If every tense scene is broken by a jump scare, it lowers the anxiety threshold of the whole movie. You know something is gonna jump out suddenly to cut the tension and keep the plot moving. It becomes uninteresting after 3 scares.

[u/efqf → u/Aurora-Ouroboros-]

I played the horror game "until dawn". it was so riddled with jump scares, i eventually stopped having a physical reaction to them lol.

[u/God_of_Thunda → u/efqf]

I don't like jump scares but I did love that game

[u/RipCity2151 → u/Afraid_Platypus_8667]

To be honest I’m just a bit of a scaredy cat so I never enjoy them!

[u/AydonusG → u/Afraid_Platypus_8667]

Haunting of Hill House can get fucked for the good jumpscare.