I took my nephews to see Jaws in 3D a couple of years ago in the theater. Its great to know when the scene is coming up, because it never fails to deliver. I remember half the theater jumping. It was so awesome! Spielberg was a genius
That scene was an after thought of Steven Spielberg. It was filmed in a pool with milk poured into the water to give a murky look. Everyone loses their sh*t, when they see that scene. It's great!
Not exactly an afterthought. A different version of the same scene was filmed and in the original cut of the film. Test audiences screamed but Spielberg thought he could get an even bigger scream if the head popped through the hole faster, so he reshot it in a swimming pool and shoved the head through the hole himself.
Yes, Spielberg, not even being a horror movie person, got greedy and paid for the scene himself because Universal figured that the movie was just fine, never mess with Spielberg ideas, he's a directing genius
Living on the ocean near this area I saw this movie the first week it came out and still remember how loud the screams were in the theater at this jump scare.
Ben Gardener's half eaten corpse came out of the hole was added last minute. To this day it remains as one of the best jump scares in Hollywood History.
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out and this part especially. I have never seen an entire movie audience simultaneously jump out of their seats like this scene caused. I still remember that moment vividly to this day.
I had the same experience. Everyone in the cinema was a little hunched forward because they were spooked, and when the head bobbled out, literally everyone screamed and shot back in their seats, So funny to think back on it, but shit-terrifying when it happened.
Yup. they also show him later with the other would be shark hunters going out to sea. I'm still curious how did his boat end up that far out and when did it happen in relation to the other boat getting the tiger shark.
Remember this classic was released in the Summer of 1975. Jaws hits the theaters such as drive-ins. No one wanted to go in the oceans after watching this classic.
In Summer 1975, I was spending a couple of weeks with cousins at a beach house south of Monterey, CA. Prime Great White feeding grounds. The beach house was literally 50 yards from the ocean. Someone had the great idea to go into town to see a new movie that had just come out....Jaws. It scared the ever-living shiz out of everyone in the movie theater! We didn't go back in the water for the rest of the vacation...LOL. Too real, too close. Scariest movie of all time.
I saw this when it came out, and this scene had people running for the exits. Literally like no thank you, I'm going home, never going to the beach again, fuck the ocean, fuck pools, fuck rivers and lakes, fuck water in general.
My father told me he saw this in theaters when it came out. Presumably after he served 2 tours in Vietnam. And he said this scene scared the bejesus out of him.🤣
I saw Jaws in 1974, and this scene scared the shit out of me !! Whole rows of people screamed and stood up !! I was even terrified driving home, kept looking in my rear view mirror ?? !!!
I saw this ini the theater when it was first released. Let me tell you, this scene caused EVERYBODY to jump out of their skin. One of the most effective jump scares I've experienced with a large group of people.
A friend of mine at school went to see this film in the cinema. When this scene occurred he says he crushed his drink into his face and the three rows behind him got showered with popcorn.
The guy who played Ben Gardener was a real shark fisherman from Montauk, Long Island. The character of Quint was loosely based on him. He was the guy who said hello to Hooper on the dock.
Should've been in the theater when this happened .... I was 10 !! Lines stretched around a city block waiting to see this movie !! It was awesome & what a time to be alive !! 😊
Parents were divorced so one of the weekends our father had us he took us to see Jaws. I was 7. The movie was horrifying and exhilarating. I swear almost 40 years later I still remember the nerves and dread I felt any time someone was in water or on the water in the film.
I saw this in a cinema (several times) when the film was first shown in the UK in the mid 70s. When you've 1,000+ people around you all jumping and screaming at the same time... that's a great film :-) On the fourth or fifth time of seeing this scene, I watched the audience, not the film, great fun.
My father actually had a nightmare about this scene. He was ten when it came out and he and a buddy of his went to see it. That evening they both went to sleep in my grandparents’ living room. My dad fell asleep on the sofa. He dreamed that he was in the water and somehow the head ended up behind him. He woke my grandfather up screaming “It’s under my head! It’s under my head!” Turns out, he was sleeping on top of his football. And after my grandfather calmed down and went back to bed, my dad just lay there awake, for the rest of the night. He laughs about it now but it certainly wasn’t funny back then.
This bit was SO fu***ng terrifying when I saw this in the cinema,and that music leading up to the jumpscare is a masterclass of tension building,I knew that jumpscare was coming but because of my highly sensitive hearing it still scared the living daylight out of me 😅
I like to “watch” reactions to movies I know really well while I work cleaning houses. If I know the movie well enough, I don’t need to actually watch, I can simply listen because I know what part they’re at. With Jaws reactions I know the moment they see 1) the shot of the stick, because I hear “Not the DOG!” and 2) the second Ben Gardner’s head pops out, from the sheer volume of the scream.
I remember watching this at the theater when it came out and yup, I had the very same reaction as most ppl on the video..proves to me it still works to this day!
That happened to me once. I was standing in the street waiting on my Uber to arrive and never heard him hail me. When I turned around he was right in my face, and I nearly pissed myself. I enjoyed my holiday in Venice, despite the scare, so that was alright then.
I don’t know if it’s the head… but it seems to me, that sound effect they hit you with as the head pops out is what makes it the jump scare. Don’t get me wrong, the head is creepy and somewhat unexpected… but that sound!!!
Here in Boston I was a Kid when this Movie came out, you wouldn't believe the effect it had on people going to the Beaches. In the Summer the Great Whites come here from Boston to Cape Cod, there are so many, last year after the Summer the Police in Sandwich Cape Cod had Drones daily recording the Beaches and it was Shocking how many People had Great Whites right under them and didn't know, you have to see the Size of some of them, they don't tell people because they don't want to cause hysteria, but they do have big Warning Signs on all the Beaches with Images of Great Whites. the big concern is people that use Surf or Boogie Boards, the Sharks see the Silhouette and mistake them for Lunch.
Scary movies never bothered me until I saw Jaws the opening week at a theater. That scene on the big screen made me feel like I got shocked by an electrical charge! I did not go in the ocean for at least 10 years after Jaws and since then scary movies now actually scare me.
I remember in the 90s, the last day of school my teacher played Jaws, and we screamed so much at this part parents were furious and he was fired by next semester 😔 he was my favorite
I saw this during its 25 year anniversary in a movie theater when I was a kid. A friend who was with us who'd already seen it told me what was about to happen, so I closed my eyes. I heard the entire packed theater, including my mother, scream. That affected me so much, I closed my eyes during that scene for years after.
Got to love how the sound gives no chance for you not to be scared. It goes to a placid is the shark there to a shrill sound that literally with the head jump scares you.
This scene scared the crap out of me when I saw it, for the first time, Then I jumped a meter from the couch. Movies with an underwater theme, especially sharks.
At that time, Japanese movie theaters did not have assigned seating, and there were many standing-room-only viewers, and I was also standing to watch the movie.I was so startled by this scene that I took a step backward, but the person standing behind me also took a step back so I did not step on his foot.
what makes the scene work is the absence of the usual signature warning music. No "Der Dum, Der Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum". through out the fil, you are conditioned to the warning music proceeding an attack. so it not being there sets up the jump scare brilliantly. and the scene was apparently an afterthought after a test screening, where Spielberg thought he could get one more scream. heard it was filmed in a friends pool after principle photography was completed.
The one girl, huh, who said she had plans to go to the beach in a few days after seeing this,..I was like girl, no you not,..lol,..but I can't talk, my dad took us to the beach after seeing this,.back when this first came out,..but I suspect, never asked him,..but suspect he figured, and it was in the news how beaches weren't crowded like they usually were in the summer, and dad probably figured we'd have the beach to ourselves, we did!, save maybe 20 other people, Galveston,..and maybe this should be a tradition to see this movie in the summer before your plans for the beach,..like in this movie, can't remember the name, but it was like Whiteout, a movie about people isolated in Antarctica,( although Whiteout may have ta,taken, place in Alaska)with a killer running loose, in it, the people, scientists, are about to be cut off, expectedly, for a few months, last plane for a while leaving, start of winter, and in the movie the characters have a tradition to watch The Thing,..can you imagine?..your about to be basically stranded, no means of escape,.huh, no help for months, and it's supposed to be the perfect time to watch a movie about a group trapped in similar to the place your at, with some mad killer creature,..so loved the video, keep 'em coming,..well done,.Godspeed, Peace ✌
People watching/reacting to horror movies in fully lit rooms is pretty crazy. I get them veing visible but a dimmed room would be ideal and imagine how much wilder their reactions
I remember this scene well , as a kid it scared scared the hell out of me I thought it was the Shark coming out of the boat instead Ben Gardner 's head scary
Such a great scene completely obscures the fact that there is no physical way Ben Gardner would have wound up inside the hull of his boat from being attacked by a shark.
@@sportshistorybuff319 The body was completely submerged, so that might be the answer. You can drown in 4 inches of water if you knock your head, so this has to be possible.
True. I thought you meant he consciously chose drowning over the terror of getting off the boat to possibly be eaten, which would only have made sense if he believed the boat was going down.
2 of the biggest scares in the movie, the shark's head coming out near Brodie took 1st because it was unexpected. This one was 2nd, more of an internal jump and I was waiting for something to happen.
The original theatrical release of Jaws got a PG rating. That's amazing. I hate to be a buzz skill but if you read the book Jaws he was killed during the shark cage scene the shark actually got in the cage and bit him in half
I wouldn't have been in the water to start with, but if I had been , I would have come out like a Polaris ICBM leaving a brown exhaust trail behind me.
I've never understood how this jump scare gets people - the set-up is so obvious. I think it's a great scene (especially for this "PG" movie) but it's farrrr from the scariest scene in the movie to me. When Jaws gets the kid toward the beginning, THAT was pure horror
Ben Gardner - still scaring the crap out of people 50 years later.
LOL
Very true.
Ben got a posthumous Academy Award for his performance.
I reacted the same way with a few hundred people in the theater when it came out. Terrifying.
I took my nephews to see Jaws in 3D a couple of years ago in the theater. Its great to know when the scene is coming up, because it never fails to deliver. I remember half the theater jumping. It was so awesome! Spielberg was a genius
That scene was an after thought of Steven Spielberg. It was filmed in a pool with milk poured into the water to give a murky look. Everyone loses their sh*t, when they see that scene. It's great!
Not exactly an afterthought. A different version of the same scene was filmed and in the original cut of the film. Test audiences screamed but Spielberg thought he could get an even bigger scream if the head popped through the hole faster, so he reshot it in a swimming pool and shoved the head through the hole himself.
Yes, Spielberg, not even being a horror movie person, got greedy and paid for the scene himself because Universal figured that the movie was just fine, never mess with Spielberg ideas, he's a directing genius
Best scare EVER.... That part was added in by Speilberg after filming was complete and done in a backyard pool. 😎
Good to know.
Living on the ocean near this area I saw this movie the first week it came out and still remember how loud the screams were in the theater at this jump scare.
Ben Gardener's half eaten corpse came out of the hole was added last minute. To this day it remains as one of the best jump scares in Hollywood History.
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out and this part especially. I have never seen an entire movie audience simultaneously jump out of their seats like this scene caused. I still remember that moment vividly to this day.
I had the same experience. Everyone in the cinema was a little hunched forward because they were spooked, and when the head bobbled out, literally everyone screamed and shot back in their seats, So funny to think back on it, but shit-terrifying when it happened.
@@1marconisa Yep, exactly the same here followed by the 'shamed' laughter from the guys in the cinema who were as scared as the girls. Brilliant fun.
For the longest time, I didn't realize that Ben is the guy that greets Hooper at the dock. The "Hello back." guy.
Yup. they also show him later with the other would be shark hunters going out to sea. I'm still curious how did his boat end up that far out and when did it happen in relation to the other boat getting the tiger shark.
Remember this classic was released in the Summer of 1975. Jaws hits the theaters such as drive-ins. No one wanted to go in the oceans after watching this classic.
The people of Amity respected and trusted Ben Gardner.
He protected the community. He always kept an eye out for trouble.
Except that Ben lost an eye and it’s being eaten by worms.
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I love how the non native English speakers always swear in English in jump scares 🤣
Good ol Ben Gardner getting jump scares for 50 years.
In Summer 1975, I was spending a couple of weeks with cousins at a beach house south of Monterey, CA. Prime Great White feeding grounds. The beach house was literally 50 yards from the ocean. Someone had the great idea to go into town to see a new movie that had just come out....Jaws. It scared the ever-living shiz out of everyone in the movie theater! We didn't go back in the water for the rest of the vacation...LOL. Too real, too close. Scariest movie of all time.
I saw this when it came out, and this scene had people running for the exits. Literally like no thank you, I'm going home, never going to the beach again, fuck the ocean, fuck pools, fuck rivers and lakes, fuck water in general.
My father told me he saw this in theaters when it came out. Presumably after he served 2 tours in Vietnam. And he said this scene scared the bejesus out of him.🤣
8 years old when I saw this. Freaked. Me. Out.
I saw Jaws in 1974, and this scene scared the shit out of me !! Whole rows of people screamed and stood up !!
I was even terrified driving home, kept looking in my rear view mirror ?? !!!
Land shark
I saw this ini the theater when it was first released. Let me tell you, this scene caused EVERYBODY to jump out of their skin. One of the most effective jump scares I've experienced with a large group of people.
I remember it well. The whole theater screaming . I was 11 .
A friend of mine at school went to see this film in the cinema. When this scene occurred he says he crushed his drink into his face and the three rows behind him got showered with popcorn.
This one gets everyone. Probably the best jump scare in history because nobody is immune.
I stood in line for a long time to see this when it came out. Was not disappointed at all. The theater went crazy with this scene.
One of the most effective and famous jump scares
Carly and Cassie's reactions to jump scares are priceless.
Spielberg said this scene made the popcorn fly upwards.
I believe it
The guy who played Ben Gardener was a real shark fisherman from Montauk, Long Island. The character of Quint was loosely based on him. He was the guy who said hello to Hooper on the dock.
At a packed kiddie matinee circa 1975, this moment just about brought the house down.
Should've been in the theater when this happened .... I was 10 !! Lines stretched around a city block waiting to see this movie !! It was awesome & what a time to be alive !! 😊
Parents were divorced so one of the weekends our father had us he took us to see Jaws. I was 7. The movie was horrifying and exhilarating. I swear almost 40 years later I still remember the nerves and dread I felt any time someone was in water or on the water in the film.
In germany it was rated 16.
I saw this in a cinema (several times) when the film was first shown in the UK in the mid 70s. When you've 1,000+ people around you all jumping and screaming at the same time... that's a great film :-)
On the fourth or fifth time of seeing this scene, I watched the audience, not the film, great fun.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and I must say we had the best scary movies ever
Popcorn in Bed was a legit funny reaction.
The blankets went everywhere!
My father actually had a nightmare about this scene. He was ten when it came out and he and a buddy of his went to see it. That evening they both went to sleep in my grandparents’ living room. My dad fell asleep on the sofa. He dreamed that he was in the water and somehow the head ended up behind him. He woke my grandfather up screaming “It’s under my head! It’s under my head!” Turns out, he was sleeping on top of his football. And after my grandfather calmed down and went back to bed, my dad just lay there awake, for the rest of the night. He laughs about it now but it certainly wasn’t funny back then.
💀😁😂😂Awesome Comment.👍
I never get bored of watching this film, it's brilliant.
I think I have to give the gold medal to Popcorn in Bed.
This bit was SO fu***ng terrifying when I saw this in the cinema,and that music leading up to the jumpscare is a masterclass of tension building,I knew that jumpscare was coming but because of my highly sensitive hearing it still scared the living daylight out of me 😅
Dasha & Magy....be still my heart!
I like to “watch” reactions to movies I know really well while I work cleaning houses. If I know the movie well enough, I don’t need to actually watch, I can simply listen because I know what part they’re at. With Jaws reactions I know the moment they see 1) the shot of the stick, because I hear “Not the DOG!” and 2) the second Ben Gardner’s head pops out, from the sheer volume of the scream.
Nice video ! Good job putting it together.
My brother lifted out of his seat by 2 feet in the cinema at this bit! 😀
I remember watching this at the theater when it came out and yup, I had the very same reaction as most ppl on the video..proves to me it still works to this day!
The jumpscare of a decade...
I remember that in every audience was the same reaction...everybody.
Popcorn in Bed and The Rob Squad had the best reactions! LOL
Steven Spielberg and John Williams together created a MASTERPIECE THAT WILL NEVER BE BETTERED OR BEATEN.
I've also heard that sharks just love those rubber rafts because they're soft and chewy( like humans).
I remember going to the theater when Jaws first came out and that scene scared the entire audience. Gasps and screams throughout.
I hope you do a compilation of people reacting to Brody killing the shark "Smile you Son of a Bitch!"
That happened to me once.
I was standing in the street waiting on my Uber to arrive and never heard him hail me.
When I turned around he was right in my face, and I nearly pissed myself.
I enjoyed my holiday in Venice, despite the scare, so that was alright then.
I don’t know if it’s the head… but it seems to me, that sound effect they hit you with as the head pops out is what makes it the jump scare. Don’t get me wrong, the head is creepy and somewhat unexpected… but that sound!!!
Best collection, everyone jumped, excellent scene choice. Congrats, priceless.
Filmed in a swimming pool I believe.
I almost thought of putting one of these videos together.. perfect jump scare scene.
Saying that Matt was cool and you didn't want him to die. Don't read the book...lol.
Spielberg said once he got to the end he wanted the shark to win.
Gruesome death too
Here in Boston I was a Kid when this Movie came out, you wouldn't believe the effect it had on people going to the Beaches. In the Summer the Great Whites come here from Boston to Cape Cod, there are so many, last year after the Summer the Police in Sandwich Cape Cod had Drones daily recording the Beaches and it was Shocking how many People had Great Whites right under them and didn't know, you have to see the Size of some of them, they don't tell people because they don't want to cause hysteria, but they do have big Warning Signs on all the Beaches with Images of Great Whites. the big concern is people that use Surf or Boogie Boards, the Sharks see the Silhouette and mistake them for Lunch.
Scary movies never bothered me until I saw Jaws the opening week at a theater. That scene on the big screen made me feel like I got shocked by an electrical charge! I did not go in the ocean for at least 10 years after Jaws and since then scary movies now actually scare me.
Greatest jump scare of all time. If they expected anything it was a shark
I remember in the 90s, the last day of school my teacher played Jaws, and we screamed so much at this part parents were furious and he was fired by next semester 😔 he was my favorite
I saw this during its 25 year anniversary in a movie theater when I was a kid. A friend who was with us who'd already seen it told me what was about to happen, so I closed my eyes. I heard the entire packed theater, including my mother, scream. That affected me so much, I closed my eyes during that scene for years after.
The granddaddy of the jumpscare
Just imagine watching it in the theater with all these people jumping and screaming at once that in itself makes it that more dramatic
Got to love how the sound gives no chance for you not to be scared. It goes to a placid is the shark there to a shrill sound that literally with the head jump scares you.
Mary Cherry's cat got a jump scare.
You've been one of my favorite reactors for a while now...thanks! Good journey :) Peace!
8:23 Dasha was praising Jesus. That woman jumped out of her skin! 😂
This scene scared the crap out of me when I saw it, for the first time, Then I jumped a meter from the couch. Movies with an underwater theme, especially sharks.
Can't tell you how many times that got me. A really good jumpscare in a classic film😂❤
At that time, Japanese movie theaters did not have assigned seating, and there were many standing-room-only viewers, and I was also standing to watch the movie.I was so startled by this scene that I took a step backward, but the person standing behind me also took a step back so I did not step on his foot.
what makes the scene work is the absence of the usual signature warning music. No "Der Dum, Der Dum, dum, dum, dum, dum". through out the fil, you are conditioned to the warning music proceeding an attack. so it not being there sets up the jump scare brilliantly.
and the scene was apparently an afterthought after a test screening, where Spielberg thought he could get one more scream.
heard it was filmed in a friends pool after principle photography was completed.
Saw this film at 13. Big room, the audience was more intense than the scene, iirc.
What made this great in the day was the realism. No computer exists for it. So Hollywood would build it 😂
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT VERY FUNNY I LOVED IT. 😆
Scared the crap out of me. I was 12.
I still won’t go in the water. Past my shins.
I’m an old lady now.😂
The single greatest jump scare in cinema history!
The one girl, huh, who said she had plans to go to the beach in a few days after seeing this,..I was like girl, no you not,..lol,..but I can't talk, my dad took us to the beach after seeing this,.back when this first came out,..but I suspect, never asked him,..but suspect he figured, and it was in the news how beaches weren't crowded like they usually were in the summer, and dad probably figured we'd have the beach to ourselves, we did!, save maybe 20 other people, Galveston,..and maybe this should be a tradition to see this movie in the summer before your plans for the beach,..like in this movie, can't remember the name, but it was like Whiteout, a movie about people isolated in Antarctica,( although Whiteout may have ta,taken, place in Alaska)with a killer running loose, in it, the people, scientists, are about to be cut off, expectedly, for a few months, last plane for a while leaving, start of winter, and in the movie the characters have a tradition to watch The Thing,..can you imagine?..your about to be basically stranded, no means of escape,.huh, no help for months, and it's supposed to be the perfect time to watch a movie about a group trapped in similar to the place your at, with some mad killer creature,..so loved the video, keep 'em coming,..well done,.Godspeed, Peace ✌
Such a good jump scare ! The other one is when the shark rams the cage with Matt in it !! x
People watching/reacting to horror movies in fully lit rooms is pretty crazy. I get them veing visible but a dimmed room would be ideal and imagine how much wilder their reactions
they need to re-release this to big ass theaters and charge like $5, fill the place like the old days and have 100 people scream at once.
I think the only thing more ludicrous than the reactors responses is probably my thinking, ''Just relax people, it's only a severed head.'' Lol!
"If I'm not back in five minutes, just wait longer" ~ Ace Ventura
Spielberg has said that he regrets this movie because it made everyone turn a shark into a monster
Peter Bencheley felt the same way about writing the book
The Ben Gardner’s Head is still working.
Greatest jump scare ever.
waiting for the compilation of Misery ... the hobbling scene.
Now imagine watching this on a 150 foot screen
I or ably jumped five feet out of my chair the first time I saw this scene.
I remember this scene well , as a kid it scared scared the hell out of me I thought it was the Shark coming out of the boat instead Ben Gardner 's head scary
In my opinion, still the scariest jumpscare of all time.
I was 10 years old and it scared the out of me. I jumped back 3 rows back.
Such a great scene completely obscures the fact that there is no physical way Ben Gardner would have wound up inside the hull of his boat from being attacked by a shark.
I thought it was fairly obvious he had drowned rather than jump into the sea.
But how would he drown in a boat that never sank?
@@sportshistorybuff319 The body was completely submerged, so that might be the answer. You can drown in 4 inches of water if you knock your head, so this has to be possible.
True. I thought you meant he consciously chose drowning over the terror of getting off the boat to possibly be eaten, which would only have made sense if he believed the boat was going down.
2 of the biggest scares in the movie, the shark's head coming out near Brodie took 1st because it was unexpected. This one was 2nd, more of an internal jump and I was waiting for something to happen.
I love how some of these kids are shark-tooth-size experts.
Oh damn that was funny. Great job.
Steven Spielberg was just AWESOME
Movie makers have forgotten how to build suspense like this. Scary good
Alien was equally good...
But even that was a long time ago...
Now you know why an entire generation of people are afraid of the ocean
Here is a little fact this was filmed in someone's backyard pool
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The original theatrical release of Jaws got a PG rating. That's amazing. I hate to be a buzz skill but if you read the book Jaws he was killed during the shark cage scene the shark actually got in the cage and bit him in half
@bissflix has a good reaction to this jump scare. 😂
I wouldn't have been in the water to start with, but if I had been , I would have come out like a Polaris ICBM leaving a brown exhaust trail behind me.
"Bruce" was the star of the movie.
Spielberg fright fest at its best😂
I've never understood how this jump scare gets people - the set-up is so obvious.
I think it's a great scene (especially for this "PG" movie) but it's farrrr from the scariest scene in the movie to me. When Jaws gets the kid toward the beginning, THAT was pure horror