This page includes examples of the acoustic startle events discussed in my article ‘Acoustic startle events in trailers for US horror films.’ The videos of each example are cued to play the startle event discussed in the article. To play the video, simply click on the YouTube play button.
When analysing and visualising the acoustic startle events in my article I trimmed any MPAA tag rating screens and/or YouTube promotional materials added to the start or the end trailers. The timings used in the article are based on the trimmed versions of the trailers. Here I am embedding the trailers themselves from YouTube directly, and so they will include any of the non-trailer materials I trimmed. Consequently, the timings reported in my article and the time codes in the YouTube videos will not always be the same.