I like to think of them as B-Movies with a budget. Kind of like comfort food, probably not all that good for you - but enjoyable all the same.

You are utterly reliant on technology to keep you alive, breathing, and to stop your brains from exploding out through your eye sockets.

There's a couple of other contenders - so you can't make me stick to it! But I think my favourite jump scare is the "Nurse Scene" in the Exorcist III.

I’ve read a lot of zombie novels over the years but, The Rising is still one of my favourites and I reread it regularly.

One of my favourite jump scares is from Cat People (1942) credited as popularising or inventing a technique called The Lewton Bus.