Since the audience has an inkling that this is a horror movie (as the movie title states), they expect horror to happen. Now the skill of the movie makers is to get the script, sound, special effects etc., well attuned to deliver horror when the audience least expects it. Probably, this is the easiest in horror film genre.
The challenge is in sustaining the fear, so that the audience remains scared even between jump-scares. And a successful horror movie is that movie where the people watching such shows go home and sleep with their lights on for a couple of days.
Few jump-scares do not a horror movie make.
The movie “1920: Horrors of the Heart” is a flat show. Any film-maker can manage a few jump-scares. But few jump-scares do not a horror movie make. There should exist a believable, well-executed story delivering the horror.
Well, they try to concoct something for a storyline, but it is all convoluted. I believe the filmmakers may have first decided on those “scare moments” in a 2 hour movie, and then may have connected those moments with thin plots.
Mahesh Bhatt, a filmmaker of repute, has his name on this movie as a writer seems to have shown very little oversight in creating this movie. Krishna Bhatt, who is the director of this movie, is the daughter of another movie maker of repute, Vikram Bhatt. It seems he too had little to contribute.
So, all are in a family. After watching “1920: Horrors of the Heart” one can wonder whether the Bhatts offered this movie as a trial run for the new director.
Some people are in a privileged position to make movies just for the heck of it.
neerajshrivastav 