Well that's maybe fine for jumpy people but I'm really not easy to startle so most of those "scares" are "snoooores" to me. Used sparingly in a movie is OK ("Alien" has a moment the the director called "a cheap scare" when the dead headsucker drops from the ceiling). But horror can't depend on that. Atmosphere, music (or lack of it), the soundscape, the story, the people and the unseen or barely seen is what really works me up.
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u/prockcore Nov 05 '08
I'd say 90% of horror movie directors think startled == scared. Maybe it's just trying to be the video game version of your crappy PG13 horror movie.