Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for multiple TV shows.Jump scares have become so ingrained in the horror genre that it's hard to imagine the genre without them. They're crucial, in a sense.

In haunted houses across the country each Halloween season, threatening figures jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors — wide-eyed and heart racing —to instinctively freeze and flee.

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