Even in the wonderful world of satire, few franchises have a weirder history than "Scary Movie." What began in 2000 as director Keenen Ivory Wayans' gleefully vulgar response to the post-"Scream" ...

Horror has many tropes, but one of the biggest is the jump scare. They've become commonplace in the genre over the decades as an easy way to get an audience to react, but while some, such as in ...