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BOO! The Science of Scary with Mathias Clasen & Heather Berlin

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How to Create a Jump Scare on a Cat

The jump scare is one of the most common, well known and universally detested tropes of hor movies. There are about ten jump skars per hor movie at as designed to really a engage this startled response. You can have quitet and then t's a loud sound - even if nothing jumps in the air that can startle you too. i got a 15 year old son, and he loves hard fhilps, and so do all his kids, anly his friends, right? Oh, here's the thing. Theyve adopted this disposition where the less scared you are, the more analytical you are, then the better you are at watching horro films.

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