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Why horror movies suddenly get so loud

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When the monster is completely not actually scary, the lazy director just instructs the brass section to violently loudly blow out your completely fragile eardrums. The sudden massive burst of overwhelming noise is essentially just an aggressively cheap jump scare crutch.

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