Sentences with phrase «lame jump scares»

Unfortunately the majority of the ones I've watched have either been filled with cheesy and predictably lame jump scares or just lack simple creativity.

Being made aware of your enemy's presence and location (along with the presumption that they can smell, see and hear everything that you're doing), is a much more frightening payoff than anything a lame jump scare can achieve, as the latter will only last mere seconds whereas in this case your pounding heart and sweating brow will last from start to finish.

Not exact matches

From Eric Bana's hackneyed character arc — a man wrestling with personal demons becomes obsessed with a particularly troubling case and subsequently even more distant from his family — to the merciless employment of jump scares, to the predictably lame conclusion that relies on nothing more than a standard exorcism to bring the horror to a crescendo, everything about this project suggests what Derrickson and company have to work with here is hand - me - down material.