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36-516: Adi Kapyare Kootamani ( transl.  Hey Sexton , Ring the Long Bell) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam comedy horror film co-written and directed by John Varghese and starring Dhyan Sreenivasan , Namitha Pramod , Aju Varghese , Mukesh , Neeraj Madhav , Vineeth Mohan , and Bijukuttan . The film was jointly produced by Sandra Thomas and Vijay Babu under the banner of Friday Film House and Carnival Motion Pictures. Shaan Rahman has composed

72-562: A Stranger Calls uses a form of jump scare to suddenly reveal the location of the antagonist to both the protagonist and the audience. Film writer William Cheng describes this as causing a "sudden vanishing of the protective walls surrounding the film's protagonist", in turn giving the viewer at home a sense that the intruder is also somehow closer to them. The 1980 film The Shining is known for its "misplaced" jump scares, whereby director Stanley Kubrick appears to subvert horror conventions with seemingly banal occurrences which coincide with

108-424: A bath, and Bhanu figures out that Remo is trying to flirt with Lakshmi, and gets angry. When they try to get her out through the terrace that night, Father and Shanthappan see her in a white dress, and they believe that she is a ghost. The Father locks the terrace door being scared of the ghost, and Bhanu makes a new plan: to make everyone believe that there is actually a ghost and to summon her with Ouija board in

144-405: A computer game, the player is supposed to use their mouse to move a blue square along a given path without touching the walls. As the player progresses, the walls get smaller, making it more difficult for the player to avoid touching the walls, and forces the player to bring their faces closer to the screen. At first, if the player accidentally touches the wall, it will lead back to the start menu and

180-419: A decline in recent years following an over-reliance on the trope , establishing it as a cliché of modern horror films. Though not intended as a scare, the film Citizen Kane (1941) includes an abrupt wipe transition near the ending of the film which features a shrieking cockatoo . According to Orson Welles , this was intended to startle audience members who might have been beginning to doze off towards

216-451: A dramatic cymbal crash preceded by a tense orchestral build up. Such instances include the appearance of a title card announcing "Tuesday" or when Jack Torrance , the film's main antagonist, removes a sheet of paper from a typewriter. The 2009 film Drag Me to Hell contains jump scares throughout, with director Sam Raimi saying he wanted to create a horror film with "big shocks that'll hopefully make audiences jump." Resident Evil

252-637: A sequel to the film, titled Adi Kapyare Kootamani 2. It would be directed by John Varghese. The film was remade in Tamil in 2022 as Hostel , starring Ashok Selvan and Priya Bhavani Shankar in lead roles. The film was also remade in Telugu in 2023 as Jilebi and in Kannada in 2024 as Abbabba starring Likith Shetty and Amrutha Iyengar in lead roles. Sexton (office) Historically in North America and

288-452: A sexton nor a verger is employed, these duties are likely to fall to the churchwardens . Jump scare A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare ) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games , intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a scary face, usually co-occurring with a loud scream. The jump scare has been described as "one of

324-440: A sufficient tool for scaring players. The 2014 video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy's was described as "perfect for live streaming " in part due to its use of jump scares. In 2004, K-fee (Kaffee), a German caffeinated energy drink company, released nine television advertisements that feature peaceful footage, such as a car driving through a green valley, or two people at a beach. A zombie or gargoyle then pops up on

360-448: A table and sets an alarm on his phone for three o'clock in the morning, as by then everyone would be asleep. But both sleep off since the alarm is a lullaby and wake up only by eight in the morning when Bhanu's friends, Bruno, Remo, and Koshi, knock on the door. Bhanu skips college and tries to get her out, but it turns out that the escape route has been repaired and therefore, blocked by Father and Shanthappan. He tries to get her out through

396-480: Is a ghost and gets the key from Bhanu's pocket and opens the door. Lakshmi kicks him and runs out of the room to Bruno's room, and Shanthappan is knocked out. The next day, Bhanu wakes up, and Father is persuaded by Shanthappan to check Bhanu's room for the ghost. Bhanu opens the room reluctantly and is surprised to see that Lakshmi is not there. He then finds out that his friends have found out about Lakshmi and together, they plan to get her out. Lakshmi then tells them

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432-414: Is often cited as an early video game to use jump scares. The player, during the course of the game, walks through a hallway where the music begins to lower. About halfway through the hall, zombie dogs will suddenly leap through the windows and the music will peak in volume and intensity. However, the earliest known instance of a jump scare is the 1985 Lucasfilm game Rescue on Fractalus! , wherein while

468-516: The Lewton Bus) became increasingly common in the early 1980s as the slasher subgenre increased in popularity. Carrie , released in 1976, has one of the first modern jump scares. The scene in which Carrie's bloodied arm abruptly emerges from the soil at the end of the film is credited as the inspiration for the use of a final jump scare in the 1980 film Friday the 13th , to show that an apparently dead villain had survived. The 1979 film When

504-572: The United Kingdom the "sexton" was sometimes a minor municipal official responsible for overseeing the town graveyard. In the United Kingdom the position still exists today, related to management of the community's graveyard, with such sextons usually employed by the town/parish or community council. The words "sexton" and " sacristan " both derive from the Medieval Latin word sacristanus meaning "custodian of sacred objects". "Sexton" represents

540-479: The auto driver sees them at the market but they beat up the goons and escape. At night, Bhanu, Shantappan, and Father start using the Ouija board, but after some time, to Bhanu's shock, an actual ghost turns up. Meanwhile, Bruno, Remo, and Koshi do a lot of things to scare their inmates, such as randomly setting fire to things, throwing fake blood at people, and breaking the glasses, all while hiding, and successfully scare

576-572: The bag or to say something else. Bhanu wanted to say he loves her but Lakshmi has already figured it out. She tells him that they will talk about it later and asks him to leave but suddenly hears her father's voice and asks him to wait until three in the morning when her father and his goons would have slept. Bhanu now realizes that he is trapped in her house just like how she was trapped in the hostel. The filming commenced on 7 September at University Hostel Campus in Thiruvananthapuram . The title of

612-455: The character is reacting to a jumpscare. A prominent early screamer reaction video (a sketch by Saturday Night Live ) was uploaded on YouTube in May 2006 by user "Can't We All Just Get Along?". The video features a boy sitting at a desk while playing The Maze Game . In the video, he asks, "Why can't I touch this?" after, an image of a scary monster appears with a loud scream . The boy screams, hits

648-444: The commercials, Brad Johnson and his brother Adam Johnson, who revealed that the company originally used puppets "to create scary objects". After this plan did not work, the brothers themselves starred in the commercials. YouTube prohibits jump scares in video advertising . In August 2018, a video marketing The Nun depicts the iOS device volume icon muting before the titular character appears with an incredibly loud scream. The ad

684-489: The contrast between light and deep shadow, shots of the fearful Alice, and the intermittent clacking of high heels set up suspense: abruptly, a bus enters the frame with a loud unpleasant noise, scaring the viewer. The jump scare device is sometimes called the Lewton Bus after producer Val Lewton , who used it in subsequent films. Prior to the 1980s, jump scares were relatively rare in horror movies; however, they (in particular

720-408: The end of the film. While editing Cat People (1942), Mark Robson created the jump scare, in which quiet tension builds and is suddenly and unexpectedly interrupted by a loud noise, cut, or fast movement, startling the viewer. In the film, Alice is walking home along a deserted street late at night, and realizes Irena is following her. Alice begins to panic, running, and the silence of the night,

756-425: The film The Exorcist suddenly appears on the screen along with an edited sound effect of her screaming playing twice. After the rise of YouTube, Internet screamers gradually transitioned from chain emails to reaction videos where people filmed as they pranked others to click on an Internet screamer and recorded their reactions or using a character's screaming moments edited with jumpscare as it appears as though

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792-541: The film Adi Kapyare Kootamani was revealed on 8 September 2015, Production Controller of Adi Kapyare Kootamani is handled by Shibu G Suseelan. The film collected ₹ 2.24 crore (US$ 270,000) in three days of release, and subsequently grossed ₹ 4.6 crore (US$ 550,000) in a week. Abhilash S Nair and John Varghese were nominated for the Best Script of a Comedy Film category at 2nd Asianet Comedy Awards 2016 In December 2015, producer Vijay Babu confirmed that there would be

828-473: The inmates. Even though some supernatural events do occur, Lakshmi poses as the ghost and after Father's exorcism, successfully gets out of the hostel as per the original plan. Meanwhile, the actual ghost is shown still wandering through the hostel, then suddenly appearing in the hallway and doing a jumpscare . In the credits, Lakshmi is back in her home, and Bhanu visits her with her bag which she had forgotten in his room. She asks him if he has just come to give

864-404: The last intended to expand the brand to the United Kingdom. Three "less caffeine" commercials were released, featuring a man in a monster suit or a man dressed as a teddy bear, minus the screams. These commercials received many complaints from German viewers, resulting in them ultimately being pulled from television. English commentator Rhys Production 11 interviewed two of the actors who starred in

900-463: The main entrance of the hostel but to his horror, the college is closed due to a strike that day. Hence, the students came back to the hostel, and Bhanu and Lakshmi run back to his room. Meanwhile, Lakshmi's father finds the auto-rickshaw driver who dropped her off near the hostel. He thinks that she eloped with her boyfriend and starts searching the place along with his goons. Both stay in Bhanu's room for

936-400: The most basic building blocks of horror movies". Jump scares can startle the viewer by appearing at a point in the film where the soundtrack is quiet and the viewer is not expecting anything alarming to happen, or can be the sudden payoff to a long period of suspense . Some critics have described jump scares as a lazy way to frighten viewers, and believe that the horror genre has undergone

972-502: The next day, meets Bhanuprasad, aka Bhanu, in the canteen of his college. Bhanu has lost his gold chain since he had to lend it to give his friend, Harris, some money. Since he needs money, Lakshmi offers him 20,000 rupees for taking her to his hostel for some unknown reason that night. Bhanu brings Lakshmi into the hostel, but by the time he tries to get her out, the way out has been blocked by some students. Both stay in Bhanu's room that night. Not fully trusting Bhanu, Lakshmi ties Bhanu to

1008-411: The player has to start all over again. However, once the player reaches level 3, the walls get so thin that it becomes very difficult to avoid touching the wall, which is done on purpose to get the player more focused on the game and possibly to move closer to the screen. When the player reaches a certain point, whether they touch a wall or not, an image of the possessed Regan MacNeil ( Linda Blair ) from

1044-399: The player is saving stranded humans on a hostile world, sometimes the supposed evacuee approaching the player's ship turns out to be a hostile alien who jumps on the ship's windscreen. The video game Daylight was described as being a "vehicle for jump scares", and though reviewers praised its successful use of jump scares, they commented that as the game wore on jump scares alone were not

1080-537: The popular development of the word via the Old French "Segrestein". Among the traditional duties of the sexton in small parishes was the digging of graves—the gravedigger in Hamlet refers to himself as sexton, for example. In modern times, grave digging and maintenance of the cemetery is usually done by an outside contractor. The general duties of a modern sexton may include: In many UK churches nowadays, where neither

1116-497: The presence of Father. Lakshmi will pose as the ghost. When the Father performs an exorcism, the ghost will leave the hostel, and that way Adishta Lakshmi also can get out of the hostel. They butter up and get the father to perform an exorcism. They also plan and buy a lot of things from the market, such as fake blood and chemicals that generate smoke and mist, to scare their inmates. Meanwhile, Lakshmi's father's goons catch up to them after

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1152-571: The reason why she came into the hostel. Her boyfriend, Premraj, stayed in this hostel, and after he broke up with her through a text, she wanted revenge. So she got into the hostel, went to his room, and slapped him. Meanwhile, Father and Shantappan start searching the inmates' rooms for booze, and a lot of hilarious events ensue when they move Lakshmi from room to room and make her hide in Koshi's room's sunshade to not get caught. Adding to this, at night, another hilarious scene comes up when Lakshmi wants to take

1188-478: The screen, along with a loud, high-pitched scream, potentially scaring the viewer. At the end of each advertisement, the slogan, "So wach warst du noch nie", which translates into English as, "You've never been so awake", appears on the screen, simulating the effect the energy drink will have on its consumers. Four radio ads were also released such as a Christmas story and a meditation audio, both in German and English, with

1224-406: The soundtrack and background score for the film. It was released theatrically on 25 December 2015. The movie starts with the introduction of Father Alfred Kattuvilayil who considers himself a strict warden of a college boys hostel. His assistant, Shaanthappan, usually tries to show him the mischief of the students but fails all the time. Adishta Lakshmi fights with her father over her boyfriend and

1260-407: The whole day and plan to escape through the terrace that night. When Bhanu goes to the terrace at night to check if the coast is clear, he sees a number of students, including Bruno, Koshi, and Remo, boozing. They force him to drink, and he forgets about Lakshmi locked in his room. When Shanthappan goes near Bhanu's room after some time, he hears Lakshmi speaking in her sleep in Tamil. He thinks that it

1296-467: Was removed shortly afterward for violating the site's "shocking content policy". An Internet screamer or simply screamer is an image, video or application on the Internet that has a sudden change designed to startle the user. They include a scary face with a loud scream. An early example of an Internet screamer is The Maze (often called Scary Maze Game ) by Jeremy Winterrowd in 2003. Disguised as

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