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What film critic Mark Kermode has termed the quiet-quiet-bang technique, and sometimes known in cinematic parlance as the bus,
in honor of a celebrated film scene in the 1941 Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur "Cat People," in which a scene of great tension is broken by the loud hissing
of buses' breaks. Now, the jump shock is undeniably effective, but as a dominant technique it's not horror or terror in the way
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