Horror film

Jump scare haters, beware of Netflix's new series "The Midnight Club."

The show, a horror mystery-thriller that debuted on Oct. 7, has broken a world record for its plethora of jump scares, according to a news release from Guinness World Records, CNN has reported.

Ljubljana – This year’s Festival of Genre Film, dedicated to film soleil, an offshoot of film noir, will get under way tonight with a screening of John Sturges’s Bad Day at Black Rock at Kinodvor cinema in Ljubljana. Another highlight will be a screening of The Amusement Park, a rediscovered film by the horror visionary George A. Romero.

She has been starring in the "Halloween" movies for 43 years, but Jamie Lee Curtis said on Sept 8 that the secret to her success is that she despises horror films.

"I scare easily," Curtis said at the Venice Film Festival, where the latest instalment, "Halloween Kills," premiered. "I am an untrained actor. I've never been to acting class," she told the press conference.

Samantha Hartsoe was trying to find source of cold air in bathroom and made discovery that brought to mind horror film Candyman

The 1983 supernatural horror film "Poltergeist" will round out the Athens Open Air Film Festival's July screenings. When ghosts begin to haunt a run-of-the-mill Californian family, chaos ensues and results in the disappearance of one of the children. After losing all hope, parents Diane (JoBeth Williams) and Steve (Craig T. Nelson) turn to an exorcist for help.

No, it's not a new horror film. It's Norman: also known as the first psychopathic artificial intelligence, just unveiled by US researchers.

Fans of horror movies are some of the most loyal among the various film genres. The constant sense of anticipation about that unexpected scene where the villainous character pops out of nowhere, amid an eerie and dark atmosphere, coupled with the scary music in the background feeds their desire to continue watching.

"Fulci on crack!" was the verdict by Eli Roth, the cult American horror director, of Turkish director Can Evrenol's debut feature "Bask?n" (Raid), comparing Evrenol to Lucio Fulci, the late Italian director, the so-called "Godfather of Gore." The Lincoln Center Film Society said, "A wildly original whatsit that reconfirms Turkey as the breakout national cinema of the moment."

Within the scope of Istanbul's Bosphorus University's Psychological Consultancy Symposium, a graduate of the university, psychologist Cenk Erdem, will give a conference on "Horror Cinema" at the university's Ayhan ?ahenk Hall on May 2 at 3:30 p.m.

Turkish horror cinema has been on the rise in recent years. Horror movies using jinnis draw the most attention from viewers because of their presence in Turkish people's minds from childhood, according to psychologists Films such as "Dabbe: Zehr-i Cin," "Siccin" and "Azazil: Düğüm" have emerged as 2014's horror blockbusters in Turkish cinema.