The only problem with the hide and clap scene is that they PUT IT IN ONE OF THE TRAILERS. That was one of the best scenes and it didn’t phase most people because we already saw it before.
@@DiscoverArt Same thing happened to me in the most recent Strangers film. One of the jumpscares (girl in tunnel wont say anything more if you havent seen it) scared me so much! Found of that my friend wasnt scared bc it was in the trailer.
In Bag of Bones, when the wife gets hit by a bus at the start. Before it happened, I literally said out loud as a joke to my mom "And then she gets ran over," and not even a second later, it happened. What should've sacred the living shit out of me just killed me with laughter.
i was in cinema and was about to see a random action movie... then this trailer started and it seemed nice with kids playing but the shit turned south when the hands clapped. i was terrified... never i have felt worse especially because of the harmless childish fun setup with the game... masterfull but dickish scarry none the less
The claps from the wardrobe and the basement didn’t scare me like they should have because they spoiled them in trailers. But still they made me unsettled af
The one that got me was when the witch was on top of the wardrobe. I first saw it with friends and it scared one of the guys so bad he tossed his drink xD still my favorite jumpscare to this day
My favorite kinds of jump scares are when something is already in the scene, you just didn't notice it at first. Some examples: The end of Alien, when a "pipe" in the escape pod suddenly moves and you realize it was the xenomorph's head. The Descent, when they turn on the night vision, and one of the creatures is standing behind the group but none of them sees it. Most recently, Hereditary has a great one where the boy's mother is clinging to the ceiling in a dark corner of his room, and you can barely see her until she "swims" through the air. It's hard to pull off that kind of scare, but when it's done, it's done very well.
I noticed something similar in some of the Halloween films, where Michael is slightly out of frame and he’s definitely visible but only if you focus on the corner of the screen or very far back in the background. It took a few watch throughout to realize the same station wagon is seen driving around in the background of many shots, and turns out it’s fucking Michael continuously driving the car!
I remember reading a meme that said a guy was scratching his nethers during that scene in Insidious. And when the creature appeared, he quote, "Almost ripped my balls off." Cracks me up every time I see that part now.
I still think the scene from Jaws when the decapitated head appears/floats past the boat wreckage is such a good scare. We studied jaws in school and it made me jump every-time.
Yeah, this is actually kind of a weak list. The head scene in Jaws is better than any of them, as is the scene in the original Salem's Lot when the vampire appears in the jail cell...
Totally agreed. MD is my favorite film and I've seen it at least 20 times, but that scene never fails to induce sickening dread and heartstopping terror in me.
When it comes to the Conjuring, I prefer the wardrobe jumpscare. It was the first horror movie I ever saw and that jumpscare made me not finish the movie for months.
I think I lost 5 years off my life when watching insidious the first time and saw Darth Maul with hair making faces at me. I still flinch after at least a dozen viewings of that movie.
Jon Focker Halloween is not scary at all I watched 3 of them last night, halloween 1,2,3 but they barely even make me jump, then it’s over, insidious sticks with you and just like @UnitedWeStand almost everybody I know still jumps at insidious
Sinister is so good watched it with some friends who were so scared we had to turn it off, finished it the next day loved it. Gonna watch two with another friend soo
The actors' reaction is completely genuine too... they didn't _realize_ Sloth was actually *alive* (the crew told them the guy was a prop). Sloth remained so perfectly still throughout the shoot that when he finally leapt up in the bed, they all nearly crapped themselves XD
My mother and I saw Jurassic Park 3D on a GTX screen when it was rereleased in 2013. We knew that damn Raptor was going to pop out and it still scared the piss out of us.
Is that Raptor scene involve Samuel l. Jackson?? If so a other great jump scare that is totally unexpected involving Sam Jackson is in "Deep Blue Sea" Holy Shitz!
When Mel Gibson saw an alien in the rooftops out of the window in Signs traumatized me back in elementary school (even to this day). Just thinking about that movie makes me wanna breathe slowly and silently.
Something that wasn't really a jump scare in that movie but still scared the shit out of me is when they are all locked up in the house and you can see the alien slowly stick its hands under the door. That scene just gave everyone the feeling of "oh shit" 😂
Lmao the whole it movie is more a family movie than a horror movie. If your scared of pennywise than you probably shouldnt watch any horror anymore lmao
Good list, sad to not see the shower scene in Psycho though, while it may seem quaint now, back in the day people were afraid to use there showers after
Tbh I feel like that scene is the reason I feel so vulnerable and prone to danger when showering. That scene never crosses my mind during the time but the fact that it’s so iconic must be why my mind thinks there is a demon girl staring at me as I wash my hair lol.
I just watched it and I have a question: Is the noise at the top of the scene really the repeated and incredibly loud sound of ice warming in a glass of water? Or is it supposed to be the statue cracking apart?
I’m surprised The Descent wasn’t on here. The unexpected introduction to the creature via night vision was terrifying. No music, no buildup just purely out of place. Easily the most well filmed and well placed of all of these in my opinion.
Might be alone on this one but I like "law abiding citizen" we're the lady had blown a hole in her head from answering the phone, my personal best jump scare.
Hereditary. The car scene. The Shining. Halloran's return. The Babadook. A Quiet Place. Child with toy taken. Don't Look Back. The final scene physiologically scared me more than actually being mugged did. Audition. The dismembered person in the bag. Mulholland Drive. The homeless man.
I must be an aberration because as many people ive heard say the homeless guy from Mulholland drive scared them it never scares me...and im a movie geek
One that stuck with me from The Grudge was the 3rd one, with the air con. I watched it for the first time when I was 10 and never looked in my mirror to brush my hair for over a year
I never saw this movie. But, yeah, I'm gonna go with bath salts. The script writer was tripping balls, banging cheap hookers, and, one of them gave him that package. So, he was like, hmmm, what if, instead of regular chlamydia, there was like this supernatural chlamydia that don't respond to regular treatment , and, well, y'all watched the movie. Suckers.
I shit you not a kid got up and booked it out of the theater during the projector scene and never came back in. I've never seen a reaction like that from any jumpscare ever.
Shortly after the blood test scene there's my favourite line ever: *"Now that you're finished, I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter tied to this fucking couch!!"* 😂
Or a non jumpscare but something DAMN TERRIFYING. When a car passes by outside ur window and the light makes the clothes on your chair look like a person 😬🥶
That’s how modern jump scares are: the fear you experience is more about anticipation, knowing it’s gonna happen, with your jump itself occurring because you don’t know the split second when it happens. And of course they got a loud sound/musical queue to trigger it as well. Still, we’re all guilty of what you described
Legit the birthday party from Signs scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. That and the scene from Ring were burned into my head and kept me away from horror movies for a long time
That birthday party scene from Signs was the only time I saw my father scream like Mariah Carey in a packed movie theater. Needless to say, I was the only one laughing.
Interesting suggestion. I just saw Carrie for the first time last week as a 24 year old, and tbh it was really expected for that to happen. But I’ll tell you what, I watch a TON of horror and that was the only horror movie in recent memory to truly make me feel bad. When she and her date get called up to be Prom king and queen and it’s a slow mo of her smiling and eyes watering in disbelief. Let’s just say her eyes weren’t the only ones watering I remember one movie that made me feel worse than that, and it should come to no surprise that it was Hereditary
not a movie but I always remember a jumpscare from the first silent hill game... there's a part where you're walking through an abandoned school and one of the lockers starts making a loud crashing noise (which is a jumpscare in itself), but once the game forces you to walk over and open it, there's just a cat trapped inside. you turn around relieved, and then a corpse falls out of one of the other lockers. scared the living bejeezus out of me, I'll never forget it.
That scene close to the end in Hereditary when the son wakes up in his dark room and it takes you a moment to realize. Perfect, no sound and everything is left to the audience
We watched signs in class when I was in middle school and a kid in my class snuck up behind another kid and grabbed his shoulders at the exact moment the alien jump scare happens.....I've never heard anyone scream that loud before lol
Jason Lee “On the police exam they ask, ‘what are rabies and what would you do for them?’ Ryan says, ‘Rabies are Jewish priests, and I would do everything I possibly could for them.’”
This list is missing the floating head in the sunken boat from Jaws, Carrie’s hand emerging from the grave, and the homeless person from Mulholland Drive.
The one from It Follows was done REALLY well. I wasn’t expecting it at all and it was terrifying. Another good one from that movie was the little boy that was trying to crawl into that shed that they were hiding in on the beach. It was also a good one when it showed the sister walking behind her on the beach and then pan over to show that her sister is actually in the ocean swimming. This movie was really fun to watch over again to see the people in the background creepily walking as the creature that you might have missed.
Or the scene where they were in the garage watching that home movie, then the lights went out to pitch black, seconds later when they come back on there is a giant Pennywise coming out of the screen reaching for them. Jesus, seeing that in the theater in 3D, I thought my heart was going to stop.
@@PorcelainCactus can beg to differ all you want, still wasn't a jumpscare and not a scary scene at all. Even the scene I mentioned wasn't really scary it was just unexpected and caught you off guard. Overall IT 2018 is more of a comedy than it is horror.
A couple of my favorite jumpscares of all time are Jurassic park's velociraptor in the powerhouse scene, the nightvision camcorder scene in the Descent, and Dark Skies when they reveal the alien just standing in the kids room.
Love the Jaws scene. He just walks backward in astonishment. Great acting, pure response as someone who realizes "...we have a much bigger problem than I thought."
@@mroldnewbie Really, it's the only jumpscare. The head emerging, while sudden, was more of a "oh my god, it's enormous!" sort of moment. It was the first clear shot of it. Dead eyes, a gaping chasm for a mouth...
For some reason the part that absolutely terrified me was when the son runs from the possessed mom up into the attic and he hears a fast repeated banging on the attic door and then it shows that its her hanging from the ceiling rapidly banging her head against it. Idk why but that part really got me.
@@briannadozark Yeah it's really freaky and it fucks up with you because we got acquainted with her character throughout the whole movie and we would've never expected her to do that. That's what's jarring for me in that scene. It definitely left an impression on me too.
The ones that got me good and still do, every time: 1) Old school: end of Carrie, when the hand comes out of the grave. (sweet baby Jesus! 'Nuff said) 2) Final Destination: Terri gets hit by a bus (still my favorite part of the movie, and sad that it's now a trope) 3) Scream opening: ghostface crashes through the window to attack Casey (Threw my popcorn out of fear the first time)
Carrie blew me away. I wasn't used to this "jump scare" business in the 70s and when that happened, I almost flew through the wall. I wonder what the first jump scare was. That is probably the oldest I've seen.
Hands down best jump scare I ever saw was in the Gallows. Me and the mates were all sophomores in high school, staying up late watching it for the first time and the scene in the room where nothing seems to be happening comes on. Then the dude with his jacket on his head pops up and sends us all 6 feet in the air. We all cried laughing from it. Good times
Ash, this is an incredible list! So many of those moments have helped define and solidify my love of the horror genre. The only one that I might add is the jump scare from The Descent, when the group has reached the top of the waterfall and panic begins to really set in. The scene alternates between the movie camera and the night-vision camera carried by one of the protagonists and suddenly, a Crawler appears behind Rebecca before the first attack. It made me scream and it still gets me every time.
The Hide and Clap segment in The Conjuring didn't faze me or my mom (we're both pretty avid horror movie fans). However, there's a jumpscare near the end of the film that my mom wasn't expecting and she ended up flipping her popcorn container into the air in the theater getting popcorn all over the place. Classic.
For me it's the diner scene in Mulholland Drive, partly because they tell you exactly what will happen and it gets you anyway. That's true mastery imo. Also, fun fact; Bonnie Aarons, who plays the homeless woman also plays The Nun.
You got that right. Here I am, a fully grown adult, screaming and jumping out of my seat when that lady appears. Good God. David Lynch has the scariest scenes I've ever seen. Not a jump scare but in Lost Highway, when Robert Blake has them call their own home and he answers, telling them where he is ... my blood froze.
So many great horror jumpscares, and they include the pitiful ones like the Alien, Jason or that clapping in basement etc. This is a list of jumpscares that left an impact on me: - The Others - When the girl was playing with a doll - Shutter - When the guy was looking at a photo in a red room - Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum - When the girl with black eyes started whispering - The fourth kind - When the person in bed started levitating - 28 days later - When the guy said ''Hello'' in a church - The shining (mini series) - Woman in the bath tub scene I highly suggest watching these movies if you haven't, they are great. They're not your typical teenage horrors.
I will never forget the random horrifying Bilbo Baggins jump scare in LOTR
That was actually really scary. The fact that it came in a very non-horror movie made it even less predictable.
I just watched those today. Yes, all of them in one day. Extended editions, even haha. Nice coincidence! But yes, I totally agree. :)
To this day - I cringe before that moment because it's so unbearable
You mean when they started making out?
When I was a kid omggg
Samuel L Jackson being eaten by the shark in deep blue sea. Never saw that coming. Stayed with me for ages.
Ris Sid it’s a matter of opinion mate
Ris Sid If it works, it works. No build up doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad and can actually work in its favour.
That actually did make me jump!
Ris Sid Like I said man, if it works it works.
@Ris Sid I disagree. The bad, cheap jump scares are the ones where there's loud screeching music and it's just the protagonist's best friend.
The only problem with the hide and clap scene is that they PUT IT IN ONE OF THE TRAILERS.
That was one of the best scenes and it didn’t phase most people because we already saw it before.
*All not One. And the poster, social Media, The fucking boxart is that scene For the Special Edition!
I quit watching trailers for those movies. They did the same thing with It. Showed all the good parts.
I was lucky enough,cause I did not watched the trailer, and jumped hard during the scene!!!!
@@DiscoverArt Same thing happened to me in the most recent Strangers film. One of the jumpscares (girl in tunnel wont say anything more if you havent seen it) scared me so much! Found of that my friend wasnt scared bc it was in the trailer.
Yep. Never even watched the movie but knew what this was gonna be from the second the clip turned on
I screamed when a bus hit Regina George in the Mean Girls movie.
Steve Rogers right??!!
Wuss
Ha
same lol
In Bag of Bones, when the wife gets hit by a bus at the start. Before it happened, I literally said out loud as a joke to my mom "And then she gets ran over," and not even a second later, it happened. What should've sacred the living shit out of me just killed me with laughter.
Everyone knows that the demon in Insidious is just Darth Mauls crackhead cousin
Lol
@@anayshah3349 KENOBAAAAIIIII!!!!
Makes sense Darth maul in inSIDIOUS
I have the mask lol
smfh netflix adaptation maul scarier
The tall man honestly chilled me to the bone, I don't usually scare easily, but that was a chilling scare
It follows was beautiful. Sounds ridiculous but it got me😍
I mean the premise of the film sounds ridiculous.... Not me🤔
allrorange is a
At what minute I can find it?
Fucking disturbing
The best one is from The Haunting of Hill House, where the dead sister appears in the car during that argument.
Ntu2ko Navy By far the best jump scare ever. It literally scared the breath out of me. I just wasn’t expecting it at all. It was perfectly done.
I nearly broke a brand new laptop because of that scene when I swatted it off my chest while lying in bed
The only time I have ever screamed during a movie.
so true... and now even though know she is there she still freaks me out when she appears..
I elbowed my sister in the nose and we had to take her to an Urgent Care hospital
The demon from insidious looks like Darth maul 😂
Aaditya M999 I thought of the same thing
I see that comment in every video that has that demon in it.
@@Barnsey3288 was going to comment that 😂😂
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A clown school reject
In the conjuring when the hands came out of the closest and slowly clapped I actually felt cold. James wan is just a horror genius
i was in cinema and was about to see a random action movie... then this trailer started and it seemed nice with kids playing but the shit turned south when the hands clapped. i was terrified... never i have felt worse especially because of the harmless childish fun setup with the game... masterfull but dickish scarry none the less
The claps from the wardrobe and the basement didn’t scare me like they should have because they spoiled them in trailers. But still they made me unsettled af
Except final destination 3
The one that got me was when the witch was on top of the wardrobe. I first saw it with friends and it scared one of the guys so bad he tossed his drink xD still my favorite jumpscare to this day
For me it was the zoom in on the witch on top of the wardrobe. I almost pissed myself when I watched that
My favorite kinds of jump scares are when something is already in the scene, you just didn't notice it at first. Some examples: The end of Alien, when a "pipe" in the escape pod suddenly moves and you realize it was the xenomorph's head. The Descent, when they turn on the night vision, and one of the creatures is standing behind the group but none of them sees it. Most recently, Hereditary has a great one where the boy's mother is clinging to the ceiling in a dark corner of his room, and you can barely see her until she "swims" through the air. It's hard to pull off that kind of scare, but when it's done, it's done very well.
I noticed something similar in some of the Halloween films, where Michael is slightly out of frame and he’s definitely visible but only if you focus on the corner of the screen or very far back in the background. It took a few watch throughout to realize the same station wagon is seen driving around in the background of many shots, and turns out it’s fucking Michael continuously driving the car!
That's why the one in Signs is amazing.
The “Hereditary” one was crazyyyy
watch the haunting of hill house theres like 100 of those in that show, its great
The kitchen scene in The Strangers was a big one for me.
Alien bursts through chest " Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal"
Terrifying😂😂 makes you scared of diners
Check please!
"Oh no, not again." Would be confusing if you hadn't seen the first Alien film as well.
well, yes but that's in Space Balls!!
Yeah! That was really funny!
The Tall Man is easily the best scare
Also, the demon scene in Insidious was one I still remember how good of a jump scare it was
snowflakes get scared so easily
The tall man is pretty good, but the scene in Exorcist 3 is much more panic inducing
The sinister lawnmower scene is the scariest jump scare I've ever seen.
@@infowazz No they don't, you're just ignorant.
I remember reading a meme that said a guy was scratching his nethers during that scene in Insidious. And when the creature appeared, he quote, "Almost ripped my balls off." Cracks me up every time I see that part now.
I still think the scene from Jaws when the decapitated head appears/floats past the boat wreckage is such a good scare. We studied jaws in school and it made me jump every-time.
Shannon Stuart that’s truly the greatest jump scare of all time! I’m not sure how people are missing that on these lists?
Cinefix agreed with you😂
Yeah, this is actually kind of a weak list. The head scene in Jaws is better than any of them, as is the scene in the original Salem's Lot when the vampire appears in the jail cell...
SAME THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUTTA ME
I saw it in the theater when I was 12 and to this day that scene scares the crap out of me.
Who went straight to the comments for protection 😂😂😂
Meee!
You read my mind thats scary
Me but found nothing
Wtf y'all expected in a "jumpscares" video?
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Mulholland drive’s alleyway scène should be on this list.
I thought it was gonna be in the list. It's the best.
I agree
Totally agreed. MD is my favorite film and I've seen it at least 20 times, but that scene never fails to induce sickening dread and heartstopping terror in me.
I wish I could watch that scene again without knowing what’s coming.
It's a jump scare for more mature, sophisticated minds. My heart almost stopped.
Seven. When the SWAT team leader is leaning over the sloth victim who suddenly coughs despite appearing completely dead, and everyone freaks out.
Such a great movie. Yeah that definitely made me jump!
I hate that scene lol
Totally. So simple but effective
Reason that scene was so effective was because the actors didn't know he was going to cough. Director kept it secret to get best reaction possible. :)
I loved the line "Shining a flashlight at him would give him a heart attack, he is barely alive"
That demon from insidious though 😨 the part when you see it peek through the window freaked me TF out 😂
I thought the demon design was really stupid, he just looks like Darth Maul on crack and heroin with Gene Simmons' tongue.
1960's Clint Eastwood yeah it does look a bit shit close up tbh
They just copied and pasted a Darth maul.
Yo he totally looks like darth maul if he does cocain and then some how climbs on walls, it really helps us know what happens when you do cocain.
That whole movie scared the living shit out of me
When it comes to the Conjuring, I prefer the wardrobe jumpscare. It was the first horror movie I ever saw and that jumpscare made me not finish the movie for months.
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The crooked man scared me more in that movie.
@@bluegrays9872 He wasn't in that movie
Exactly, It actually gave me chills , one of too 3-4
When “Sloth” comes back to life in Se7en is one of the few scenes that even though I know it’s coming makes my hairs stand up everytime.
That one got me.... Thanks for the reminder
"Horror movie doesn't need loud music jumpscares to terrify audience "
-Hereditary
Hereditary wasn't scary at all it was a waste of time
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@@joshfanin2589 what a dumb thing to say. How embarrassing for you.
12:28 they’re boarding up a door that opens outwards
Scary Movie 3 makes fun of this :D
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@Conrad Kujur is it even scary?
@Conrad Kujur i m gonna watch it
*MISSION FAILED WE’LL GET EM NEXT TIME*
I think I lost 5 years off my life when watching insidious the first time and saw Darth Maul with hair making faces at me.
I still flinch after at least a dozen viewings of that movie.
none of those movies are scary. Halloween was scarier
UnitedWeStand I jumped when I saw that scene in the first Insidious as well 😂😂😂glad it wasn’t just me lol
Jon Focker Halloween is not scary at all I watched 3 of them last night, halloween 1,2,3 but they barely even make me jump, then it’s over, insidious sticks with you and just like @UnitedWeStand almost everybody I know still jumps at insidious
spongebob and patrick always jumpscare squidward in his bathroom
"Hey Buddy, I warmed it up for ya"
@@pinkquartz3404 you, you didn't. You're not aloud, why just why
Lolllllll
lol
I got an instant visual! 🤣🤣
The insidious jump scare still keeps me up to this day.
Sinister is perfect for real estate puns. “People are just dying to move in”
Agreed there’s also a lot of dark humor like family HANGING out
Very nice. It brings to mind the old 70s-80s horror paperback covers.
Sinister is so good watched it with some friends who were so scared we had to turn it off, finished it the next day loved it. Gonna watch two with another friend soo
One that got me was The Conjuring's "MY HOUSE!" scene.
I was not expecting that at all.
I had nightmares about the old guy for weeks after that
Still to this day the only scare that made me scream like a bitch... I was so annoyed 😂
I screamed, "oh f*ck," in the theater... very embarrassing.
Lol i brought it to 69 likes
Idk why but I find that scene so hilarious
The movie Seven - when they find the 'sloth' victim!
M Ambro yes, when you know he’s long dead... but he movies and starts screaming.
This jumpscare should be #1, one of the best-made jumpscares ever
Loved that scene
I admit, I jumped at that scene too. But then again, I kinda had a feeling he was gonna wake up.
The actors' reaction is completely genuine too... they didn't _realize_ Sloth was actually *alive* (the crew told them the guy was a prop). Sloth remained so perfectly still throughout the shoot that when he finally leapt up in the bed, they all nearly crapped themselves XD
Where's the raptor bursting out behind Dr. Sattler in Jurassic Park? Great unexpected jump scare in a non-horror movie
Lol I just said the same thing haha
My mother and I saw Jurassic Park 3D on a GTX screen when it was rereleased in 2013. We knew that damn Raptor was going to pop out and it still scared the piss out of us.
@W This isn't a list for horror movies, just jump scares in general
Andrew Chan yeah I was waiting for that one too.
Is that Raptor scene involve Samuel l. Jackson?? If so a other great jump scare that is totally unexpected involving Sam Jackson is in "Deep Blue Sea" Holy Shitz!
When Mel Gibson saw an alien in the rooftops out of the window in Signs traumatized me back in elementary school (even to this day). Just thinking about that movie makes me wanna breathe slowly and silently.
That and the video from Brazil in Signs
@@aaronmarks9366 that scene easily has the most rewinds, for those that watched it on vcr
Something that wasn't really a jump scare in that movie but still scared the shit out of me is when they are all locked up in the house and you can see the alien slowly stick its hands under the door. That scene just gave everyone the feeling of "oh shit" 😂
For ME, the jump scare in Jaws was when Richard Dreyfus was exploring the hole in the bottom of a boat, when a head suddenly came floating out. 😮
That is the greatest jump scare in movie history. It's criminal that it wasn't number one on the list.
Pennywise popping out of the projector screen in the garage also scared the living daylights out of me
I found that really funny
It didn’t scare me because I knew it was coming from the trailers
Yes
The jumpscare was obvious to me, but the scene was still great.
Lmao the whole it movie is more a family movie than a horror movie. If your scared of pennywise than you probably shouldnt watch any horror anymore lmao
The Tall Man looks just like Tony Hawk with the shades on
I thought it was jake paul
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good list, sad to not see the shower scene in Psycho though, while it may seem quaint now, back in the day people were afraid to use there showers after
Ahem. Still are.
I think the death on the staircase is a bigger jump scare for that movie.
Why is this comment underrated
Most TH-cam reviewers don't know that cinema existed before the 1980s.
Tbh I feel like that scene is the reason I feel so vulnerable and prone to danger when showering. That scene never crosses my mind during the time but the fact that it’s so iconic must be why my mind thinks there is a demon girl staring at me as I wash my hair lol.
the best part of the birthday party in signs was Joaquin Phoenix’s reaction. That’s what got me so bad. Dude is one of the greatest, I swear.
Exoicist 3 nurse scene will always be the scariest jump scare ever to me. I still get frightened after knowing what to expect 100 times before.
Hands down, most terrifying jump scare of all time
I just watched it and I have a question: Is the noise at the top of the scene really the repeated and incredibly loud sound of ice warming in a glass of water? Or is it supposed to be the statue cracking apart?
Best jump scare is when I got served divorce papers from my first marriage.
Thanks for ruining my day man😂. I hope you’re alright
@Hobarth McShane Agreed.
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I really wanna hug you so tight right now budd :(
The mulholland drive diner scene scared the living daylight out of me
Me too. I was gonna leave that as a comment myself.
I was gonna leave that comment too
That movie is trash. Most painful film experience of my life
Yep. Also, greatest movie ever.
@@liamjamesevans meanwhile, back on planet earth, Mulholland Drive is the best movie ever made.
The new IT when Pennywise jumps out the projector screen. Everyone in the theater jumped lol
Jenny R I watched it at home and I screamed like a little girl
Or the scene where Beverly is done killing her father and then pennywise grabs her
yeah except it was ruined by the trailers. i think pennywise in the bathroom is scarier and actually got me
It was predictable for me. The one with Beverly was more unexpected.
When Pennywise gets Beverly in the bathroom didn’t see it coming
Nah that wasn’t that scary
It wasn’t that scary but the semi scary part was the projector scene
Omg same. That might have be the most effective jump scare in the movie for me, since it was so goddamned unexpected
@@anayshah3349 imma disagree the bathroom got me more than projector bc the bathroom was more unexpected for me
I saw it coming because it was in the trailer
I’m surprised The Descent wasn’t on here. The unexpected introduction to the creature via night vision was terrifying. No music, no buildup just purely out of place. Easily the most well filmed and well placed of all of these in my opinion.
Yeah, that was one of the best jumpscares i ever seen.
Agree. One of the scariest movies I've ever seen
I agree
This scare was amazing, one of my favorites!
I expected to see it towards the top of the list
Top 10 jump scares from non horror movies would be good!
Might be alone on this one but I like "law abiding citizen" we're the lady had blown a hole in her head from answering the phone, my personal best jump scare.
Exorcist 3 literally has one of the best jump scares EVER!
Hereditary. The car scene.
The Shining. Halloran's return.
The Babadook.
A Quiet Place. Child with toy taken.
Don't Look Back. The final scene physiologically scared me more than actually being mugged did.
Audition. The dismembered person in the bag.
Mulholland Drive. The homeless man.
What happened in Don’t Look Back?
I think hereditary had two great scenes, the car scene and the part where the mom is possessed and bangs her head over and over again so fast..
Taliesin Hoyle the car scene was hilarious
Texas chainsaw massacre 2 the golden oldies vault?
I must be an aberration because as many people ive heard say the homeless guy from Mulholland drive scared them it never scares me...and im a movie geek
That insidious jumpscare is the reason I look behind myself every 20 seconds
The Grudge attic scene. Enough said. And that damn sound...
Do you remember a scene from second movie when a reporter is watching a tape of an interview with a detective? I have chills just thinking about it.
One that stuck with me from The Grudge was the 3rd one, with the air con. I watched it for the first time when I was 10 and never looked in my mirror to brush my hair for over a year
"Sexually transmitted supernatural entity"
Only in a pot induced dream will that ever make sense.
I never saw this movie. But, yeah, I'm gonna go with bath salts. The script writer was tripping balls, banging cheap hookers, and, one of them gave him that package. So, he was like, hmmm, what if, instead of regular chlamydia, there was like this supernatural chlamydia that don't respond to regular treatment , and, well, y'all watched the movie. Suckers.
ye lol
sus.
SUS AMOHUS
ur so sus impostor became depostor
There are dumber things in horror movies lol
I genuinely enjoyed IT's projector scene jumpscare (as well as the library scene)
Both were brilliantly done!
the library one got me
Justin Sanchez the new one was just pure comedy
I shit you not a kid got up and booked it out of the theater during the projector scene and never came back in. I've never seen a reaction like that from any jumpscare ever.
The library one got me but not the projector
You missed my personal favorite. The Descent. If you’ve seen the film, you know the scene I’m referring to. No further explanation needed.
Haha. I just wrote nearly exactly the same thing. Great movie.
That was a great horror movie and if you see the BTS bit they purposely made the actresses not see the monsters until the scene happened
Is it the scene where she shone the light on the ceiling of the cave? Or the scene with the blood bath
Or blood pit
The scene where the camera pans to a girl and there's a creature standing there, stock still?
Shortly after the blood test scene there's my favourite line ever: *"Now that you're finished, I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter tied to this fucking couch!!"* 😂
The scariest jumpscare is when your lying in bed at night in the dark when dog just suddenly starts barking out of nowhere
Or a non jumpscare but something DAMN TERRIFYING. When a car passes by outside ur window and the light makes the clothes on your chair look like a person 😬🥶
Me: *know’s there’s gonna come a jumpscare*
*monster show’s up*
Also me: *still get’s scared and scream’s.*
Lol everyone mate, thats how good jumps are
That’s how modern jump scares are: the fear you experience is more about anticipation, knowing it’s gonna happen, with your jump itself occurring because you don’t know the split second when it happens. And of course they got a loud sound/musical queue to trigger it as well. Still, we’re all guilty of what you described
And Joaquin Phoenix sold his scene masterfully... A truly genuine disturbed reaction. Best actor!
Absolutely! I still don't know if I'm scared by the alien or by his reaction.
“Weird marine biologist”
*Shows picture of a guy holding a Box Turtle... a strictly land only turtle*
The Descent. You know which part, literally jumped out of my chair.
Great movie
I just accidentally jumpscared my cats because I threw a piece of trash into a paper bag.
Lol poor kitties
*terrifying*
Could you. , put a list in the description For those who are looking for movies to watch , or want to avoid spoilers
Was going to say the same. A jumpscare isn't going to work when we know it's coming!
I beg to differ though. I watch this list and still feel uneasy for each movie. Eventhough no sound, and no context whatsoever
Legit the birthday party from Signs scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. That and the scene from Ring were burned into my head and kept me away from horror movies for a long time
I remember the birthday party scene! I got scared to death when i was a kid also.
It is such a masterful moment.
You know the ring was filled with jumpscares tho
That birthday party scene from Signs was the only time I saw my father scream like Mariah Carey in a packed movie theater. Needless to say, I was the only one laughing.
When I watched Signs, I jumped like 5 feet into the air, paused the movie, and laughed because you know, I may or may not of broken part of the couch
Bathsheba on top of the wardrobe.. Conjuring!
i was watching that movie for the first time and yelled oh shit! lol
comment i was looking for ^^^^^^ scared the f sht out of me
YEAH THAT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME
"The kitchen explodes" actually killed me. I died.
I swear the one from Insidious is a god-tier jump scare
insidious is a god tier horror movie, it scared me half to death when i was ten
The very end of the first Paranormal Activity is one of the few jumpscares that has ever made me jump.
No shout for Carrie's hand coming out of the grave?!
Right? At the very least an honorable mention. It influenced the Friday the 13th jump scare
Ohh God that scared the shit out of me as a kid
Interesting suggestion. I just saw Carrie for the first time last week as a 24 year old, and tbh it was really expected for that to happen. But I’ll tell you what, I watch a TON of horror and that was the only horror movie in recent memory to truly make me feel bad. When she and her date get called up to be Prom king and queen and it’s a slow mo of her smiling and eyes watering in disbelief. Let’s just say her eyes weren’t the only ones watering
I remember one movie that made me feel worse than that, and it should come to no surprise that it was Hereditary
Seriously one of the few times I have ever jumped in a movie, and my Dad even warned me it was coming.
Yes, and at a time when jump scares were not that common…
not a movie but I always remember a jumpscare from the first silent hill game... there's a part where you're walking through an abandoned school and one of the lockers starts making a loud crashing noise (which is a jumpscare in itself), but once the game forces you to walk over and open it, there's just a cat trapped inside. you turn around relieved, and then a corpse falls out of one of the other lockers.
scared the living bejeezus out of me, I'll never forget it.
there is the same thing in the new map on Dead by Daylight's Silent Hill chapter, makes me jumpscare too ;-;
That’s why I don’t play horror games. CoD Zombies is enough for me 😂
You've just reminded me: Resident Evil 2, Scenario 2, licker comes crashing through skylight.
The first Resident Evil game with the dog that bursts through the window. Got me so good.
The “gonna need a bigger boat” jump scare isn’t what got me...it was that head popping out of the wrecked ship 🤭
True. Never failed to have me cover my eyes as a kid
@@Dutch_man20 same
Mulholland drove diner scene, you cannot convince me otherwise
Im BEYOND ready for a giant, slippery alien to come poking about my space house
Jason Margosian Is this...is this a euphemism?
@@memaromaru ;)
That scene close to the end in Hereditary when the son wakes up in his dark room and it takes you a moment to realize. Perfect, no sound and everything is left to the audience
We watched signs in class when I was in middle school and a kid in my class snuck up behind another kid and grabbed his shoulders at the exact moment the alien jump scare happens.....I've never heard anyone scream that loud before lol
Lmao
The Insidious scene was genius. Placing a Red-and-Black creature on a cool-toned scene is just the way.
When Regan in 'the exorcist,' crab walks down the stairs, the entire theater(sp) screamed and people actually ran out.
The hand that comes out of the grave at the end of Carrie should be in this list, and near the top
This is the one I remember too his day. Also the one they mentioned from The Thing.
Exorcist III should be on everyone's "Must see" list. That movie is sorely underrated.
Jason Lee “On the police exam they ask, ‘what are rabies and what would you do for them?’ Ryan says, ‘Rabies are Jewish priests, and I would do everything I possibly could for them.’”
This list is missing the floating head in the sunken boat from Jaws, Carrie’s hand emerging from the grave, and the homeless person from Mulholland Drive.
All good shouts and better choices than The Conjuring 1 & 2, Insidious and Paranormal figgin' Activity 2.
Hopper's midnight dive to the sunken boat from Jaws kept me up at night as a child.
The one from It Follows was done REALLY well. I wasn’t expecting it at all and it was terrifying. Another good one from that movie was the little boy that was trying to crawl into that shed that they were hiding in on the beach. It was also a good one when it showed the sister walking behind her on the beach and then pan over to show that her sister is actually in the ocean swimming. This movie was really fun to watch over again to see the people in the background creepily walking as the creature that you might have missed.
“Lights Out” got me good I almost pissed myself.
I couldn't even watch the movie without a pillow and blanket lmao
Haven’t seen it yet
Allegedly the movie is a rip off from a short film here on TH-cam. I think the short film is muuuch more scary.
When Pennywise grabbed Beverly when she turned around in IT?
Or the scene where they were in the garage watching that home movie, then the lights went out to pitch black, seconds later when they come back on there is a giant Pennywise coming out of the screen reaching for them. Jesus, seeing that in the theater in 3D, I thought my heart was going to stop.
@@PorcelainCactus That's not a jump scare and was a scene that was partially shown in the trailer so you knew it was coming.
@@DomoDolo I beg to differ.
And not everyone likes to be spoiled by trailers.
@@PorcelainCactus can beg to differ all you want, still wasn't a jumpscare and not a scary scene at all. Even the scene I mentioned wasn't really scary it was just unexpected and caught you off guard. Overall IT 2018 is more of a comedy than it is horror.
@@DomoDolo 😗 whatever
A couple of my favorite jumpscares of all time are Jurassic park's velociraptor in the powerhouse scene, the nightvision camcorder scene in the Descent, and Dark Skies when they reveal the alien just standing in the kids room.
What about Carrie?
The hand coming out of the grave?
Or the head in Jaws?!
Those two made me jump and i dont usually jump at stuff!
Love the Jaws scene. He just walks backward in astonishment. Great acting, pure response as someone who realizes "...we have a much bigger problem than I thought."
The sudden eyes open at the end of the werewolf nightmare foreshadowing jumpscare in 'American werewolf in London' gets me everytime
Wrong jaws moment
the best scare was the body floating out of the boat ... no shark
No body. Just the head.
I agree, although the scene we had is arguably the most iconic scene in this list.
Number 1 should be from Jaws but not the one you mentioned. It is when the head pops out when Hooper is digging the tooth out of the hull of the boat.
@@mroldnewbie Really, it's the only jumpscare. The head emerging, while sudden, was more of a "oh my god, it's enormous!" sort of moment. It was the first clear shot of it. Dead eyes, a gaping chasm for a mouth...
That one scene from Hereditary. You know... that one. Light pole.
Also the body falling from the stairs in [REC].
Yeah it's a great scene, all the way to the mother discovered the body. Her screems...
@@carloseduardomejia8455 Just watched it last night. Amazing movie, had me looking up explanations about "paimon" and shit
For some reason the part that absolutely terrified me was when the son runs from the possessed mom up into the attic and he hears a fast repeated banging on the attic door and then it shows that its her hanging from the ceiling rapidly banging her head against it. Idk why but that part really got me.
@@briannadozark Yeah it's really freaky and it fucks up with you because we got acquainted with her character throughout the whole movie and we would've never expected her to do that. That's what's jarring for me in that scene. It definitely left an impression on me too.
What about when shes cutting her own head off????
The ones that got me good and still do, every time:
1) Old school: end of Carrie, when the hand comes out of the grave. (sweet baby Jesus! 'Nuff said)
2) Final Destination: Terri gets hit by a bus (still my favorite part of the movie, and sad that it's now a trope)
3) Scream opening: ghostface crashes through the window to attack Casey (Threw my popcorn out of fear the first time)
Carrie blew me away. I wasn't used to this "jump scare" business in the 70s and when that happened, I almost flew through the wall. I wonder what the first jump scare was. That is probably the oldest I've seen.
Hands down best jump scare I ever saw was in the Gallows. Me and the mates were all sophomores in high school, staying up late watching it for the first time and the scene in the room where nothing seems to be happening comes on. Then the dude with his jacket on his head pops up and sends us all 6 feet in the air. We all cried laughing from it. Good times
Just clicked to make sure Exorcist III got a mention. Good job WhatCulture!
The Descent, the first of the cave monsters appearing behind Juno while she is being filmed.
Yes!! I was about to say the same thing
What makes that scene so great is the actors didn't know he was going to be there, so their reactions are real
Best movie, hands down. Was gonna comment this
Exorcist 3 in the hospital. Best jump scare ever.
The scene in The Thing when Norris‘s stomach opens up Into fangs was brilliant
The end of Carrie (1974) hat a really mean jump scare
I knew that was coming and it still scared the shit out of me when I first saw it, amazing jump scare especially with the score
Ash, this is an incredible list! So many of those moments have helped define and solidify my love of the horror genre. The only one that I might add is the jump scare from The Descent, when the group has reached the top of the waterfall and panic begins to really set in. The scene alternates between the movie camera and the night-vision camera carried by one of the protagonists and suddenly, a Crawler appears behind Rebecca before the first attack. It made me scream and it still gets me every time.
RIP boomers who think that the people in these videos read the comments.
Exorcist III is a criminally underrated movie. I mean: George C Scott AND Brad Dourif, what the hell more do you want?!??!
Too much dialog for most people. But even if you take a step back from the horror aspect, the acting is AMAZING.
Fair point. I never registered that *because* I got sucked in by the acting, but you’re not wrong.
The exorcist 3 Legion is the greatest one of all. There will never be one on par with it.
Theatrical cut was better tho
The Hide and Clap segment in The Conjuring didn't faze me or my mom (we're both pretty avid horror movie fans). However, there's a jumpscare near the end of the film that my mom wasn't expecting and she ended up flipping her popcorn container into the air in the theater getting popcorn all over the place. Classic.
6:12. I m a r6 player, i see nothing scary here, just the usual rushing blitz.
Scary enough
Lol
Getting sledged when injured is fckin horrofying
@@Penta_NV_ or when you breach and go in and spot a caveira in the corner of your vision
One of my biggest jumps scares came from a non-horror movie: The Departed. You know the scene.
What, Leo getting skull fucked in the elevator?
For me it's the diner scene in Mulholland Drive, partly because they tell you exactly what will happen and it gets you anyway. That's true mastery imo. Also, fun fact; Bonnie Aarons, who plays the homeless woman also plays The Nun.
You got that right. Here I am, a fully grown adult, screaming and jumping out of my seat when that lady appears. Good God. David Lynch has the scariest scenes I've ever seen. Not a jump scare but in Lost Highway, when Robert Blake has them call their own home and he answers, telling them where he is ... my blood froze.
For me, the best jumpscares I had were when I watched the World Cup final. My God!! I almost had a heart attack watching that match😅
The Lipstick Demon appearance in Insidious got me so badly my eyes welled up. That's the only time I've gotten hit that hard.
When the phone rings unexpectantly whilst watching videos like this with the lights off. Now THAT's a jumpscare.
So many great horror jumpscares, and they include the pitiful ones like the Alien, Jason or that clapping in basement etc.
This is a list of jumpscares that left an impact on me:
- The Others - When the girl was playing with a doll
- Shutter - When the guy was looking at a photo in a red room
- Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum - When the girl with black eyes started whispering
- The fourth kind - When the person in bed started levitating
- 28 days later - When the guy said ''Hello'' in a church
- The shining (mini series) - Woman in the bath tub scene
I highly suggest watching these movies if you haven't, they are great. They're not your typical teenage horrors.