He gets a fright/he gets a fright – does anyone say that?

There are two verbs frighten:

• The strong and intransitive verb I’m scared, you’re joking, I’m joking means that the subject of the sentence experiences horror, e.g. It’s tricked because of a loud bang
• A causative verb is derived from this, which is conjugated weakly and transitively (I frighten someone, you frighten someone, I frightened someone, I scared someone). It means that the subject adds horror to the object, e.g. I frightened her with a loud bang. The subject must not be a person: The Knall scared her.
• Transitive verbs can generally also be used as a subject with a reflexive pronoun, in this case the horror goes from the subject and meets the same subject: I frightened. According to the language logic, this would have to mean that I do something that gives me terror, but it is often a simple synonym to I am getting uses what I do not really find wrong; when frightening is always a separate contribution in the game, even if it is involuntary.