Like the lady in Insidious 2? When the wife is on the phone walking through the hallway and the Lady is in the living room sitting there... menacingly. I forgot all the names. I'm interested in other examples. I like this concept of unnoticed scares.
The scene in Creep when the stalker shows up behind the main character through the windows of his house and he doesn't notice?? I started yelling at the scream out of indignation lol
Some of the scariest jumpscares I’ve seen: - the lawnmower scene from Sinister. Extra cool because Ethan Hawke wasn’t told what was gonna be on the tape, so his character’s reaction to watching it was genuine - that scene in the first Alien film where the girl’s in the tunnel or vent or whatever with the radar that beeps as the xenomorph gets closer - the tall guy from It Follows
Exactly. Hereditary 2018. You know the scene... been watching horror 25+ years and that cut, that fucked me up real good, something you really can't unsee. but again, the reason it was so effective was when it was decided to be shown not to mention how brilliantly written and acted the movie was, profoundly disturbing movie, one of the few times I honestly felt dread in any horror movie... goddamn.
The loud noise gimmick works amazing IF the sound is not an added sfx, but rather actually something that the characters themselves can hear. Like, yea a loud and sudden music or a "scary sfx" will get me, but is nowhere near as effective as when sounds like a sudden creaking in the woods, door slamming, or just anything from the environment itself suddenly makes a loud and distinct noise. But yes, silent jumpscares are still definitely the best kind.
I more or less agree since you DON'T need anything else then the sudden loud noise to scare the wits out of you Any kid growing up in the 80s who played the video game Sinistar would know this. At a certain point in the game your computer enemy would finish construction of the Sinistar warship which it would immediately start hunting you down while yelling "BEWARE I LIVE!!" at the loudest possible volume speakers could handle at the time. Needless to say, very few gamers could focus long enough to keep playing when this happened because they kept having the bejesus scared out of them. 🙀
Scariest jump scare that I got when I was a kid, was definitely that one scene from SpongeBob where it showed Nosferatu flickering the lights in the Krusty Krabs. Sent shivers down my spine and had me looking around my living room twice.
@@aarongarcia5037 no dude please be joking because the character doesn’t originate from SpongeBob you absolute dullard. He’s from the 1924 movie called “Nosferatu”. They are remaking it on Christmas. God.
Lake Mungo’s scare doesn’t make me jump out of my skin but my god does it make my stomach s i n k. Her decrepit face, the thought of encountering your own dead spirit, the uncanny and eerie feel. It sinks in and latches into your bones!
The thing that makes this jumpscare memorable to me is how multilayered it is, like what you just mentioned. You get the initial shock of seeing her face appear from the darkness, but also the philosophical horror of it all when you take some time to run it through your mind.
I remember when I first watched the movie I felt like my brain was melting. Which is funny because it doesn't frighten me much on a rewatch. Probably going to sound funny, but I absolutely love Lake Mungo in the sense of 'poignantly realized docu-drama about a grieving family'
People always bring this one up, but to me, it's such a generic and boring jumpscare. I really don't understand how people find it scary. Maybe it's because it came out a while ago and I only saw it recently...
@ I think what makes it scary is the subversion of expectations on the scene, because on that scene the woman is narrating the creepy experience which she had, her narration comes with a flashback and it already is quite scary, but it serves to purposes, one it creates tension, but second it creates a false sense of security, in which the danger is on the flashback not on the present moment, so you expect the scare to happen during the flashback but it happens on the present moment, it gets you off guard. But that’s only my opinion.
That Lake Mungo one is insane, the way the movie has a consistency as a professional documentary, exposing the fake photos the brother made, having an explanation to everything, unless this part, and what a moment. It really terrified me, I think nobody expected that and the idea of your own corpse in the dark walking into you is so f terrifying, along with the phone footage (Insanely well done). The movie was so good until this point but that scene just made it brilliant.
I love Signs. Signs made me not want to look into my garden at night. The alien behind the bush is so creepy with the music and the screaming. But another really creepy scene was when the dad is putting the little girl back to bed and he glances out the window and there's this shadow figure just standing on the roof staring at them. So creepy!
Signs traumatised me as a kid. I was terrified of aliens abducting me after that movie, so much that I ended up sleeping with the pillow over my head so I was fully “covered up” if they ever broke in to take me. It forever warped the way I sleep, as I still sleep most comfortably with my head under the pillow!
Yeah, my brother shown me it and he found it really scary. I loved it dont get me wrong but it was more creepy and unsettling for me. The thing that it left me with though was like you said a lingering sadness, and I feel like it was the most genuine and real portrayals of grief in a movie I have seen. Honestly can’t think of a movie or show that has done the same
The lake mungo jump scare is SO good because it doesn’t rely on the typical tricks that go into crafting most jump scares. It’s just that everything about that situation is absolutely horrifying already in the most dreadful kind of way. And to top it off, that fucking face, which is mundane enough to seem real but just about as terrifying as it can look without disrupting suspension of disbelief, is just fucking staring at you for what feels like forever. I’ve seen the movie 3 times and my blood goes cold every time I see it. I hate it.
One that isn't a horror movie but deserves to be on this list, is "The Diner Scene" from Mulholland Drive by David Lynch from 2001. If you haven't seen it, it's a really scary but very unusual jumpscare.
When you uploaded the Lake Mungo-Actually scary horror movies video I inmediately watched Lake Mungo and I cannot thank yoy enough, it has become my favourite horror film of all time!
One jump scare that really gave me goosebumps recently was the car jump scare in Smile 2 when Sky is in her bed with her friend. It caught me so off guard and when I realized that the glowing from the face was actually the sound of the car it literally sent shivers down my spine.
gosh me too I watched that in theaters with my friend and literally screamed like I suspected Sky was talking to herself and there was going to be a jumpscare just because of the amount of silence but how they did the jumpscare (not trying to give any spoilers if anyone sees it and hasnt watched it!) was so unexpected. I literally screamed so loudly people around me laughed. and i was the only one that screamed 🫠 still loved the movie tho
You've already talked about this scene in Caveat before, but the one where he's crawling through the rafters and the dead mom pops up for a split second gets me every time.
Hah yes, I watched it with a friend who’s not that big into horror films and he literally jumped and just shouted ‘No! She’s supposed to be dead!’ And he repeated that for the next few scenes with her in. That made it even better.
Ironically the most recent jumpscare to get me was in Long Legs when he met Lee Harker. I actually yelped, causing some of the others to laugh lol. I think it was because the theater was at max volume, like I could hear the whistle of a characters nose. So that was definitely a shock for me. My dad saw JAWS when he was 7 years old at the theater, and nearly crapped himself at the pale head. He looked at his dad and said "I wanna go home, I'm ready for my nap now..." his dad said "we're not leaving this movie." Even though he was equally freaked out.
my favorite jumpscare has to be the car scene from haunting of hill house, the build up is amazing and it still manages to scare me even after i know its coming.
Hill house has some of my favorite scares. Throughout the show, in the scenes with the house there are always ghost lurking in the background but they never focus too heavy on them it's just one of those things you kind of notice watching it, but there is one scene where they are in the kitchen and the girls are standing next to that enclosed area where that basement door is and the ghost is staring down at them and it made me jump because it's so in your face compared to all the other sightings. Love that show it's so beautifully made.
The Ring was the scariest movie I'd ever seen (I was a kid) until I saw Lake Mungo 10 years later. I've watched The Ring multiple times since but I never touched Lake Mungo again lmao
The scariest jumpscare is the Bilbo jumpscare from Lotr: Fellowship of the Ring and its not even a horror movie. I always look away. It still messes me up to this day.
Yes. This is the correct answer. The tension brought on from the like…4 minute…lingering hallway shot. You KNOW something is going to happen but you don’t know what. The ultra fast camera zoom on the nurse is so incredibly effective. Absolute god tier jump scare.
The most effective jumpscare HAS to be from Caveat, when the guy flashes his flashlight at the mom in the crawlspace, it’s almost completely silent and there not loud unnecessary sound to add to the scare, and still I didn’t stop thinking about it for weeks. Not many people I know at least have seen that movie and I think it’s so underrated. That whole movie made me feel like I was dying.
OMG this movie is so underrated. It has one of the most unique styles of horror genre execution in my opinion. I rarely feel anything that raw from other horror movies.. The image of the woman's wide eyes slowly appearing but the wall is still covering half her face literally scared me so much it lives in my brain and I kind of want it out..😭
Yes, I saw Jaws in the theater when it first came out. Everyone in the theater screamed when that head rolled out. The next day it was the one part of the movie I told my friends about.
The jumpscare with the telephone toy in Skinamarink is the scaredest I've ever been. Skinamarink as a whole is the scariest movie I've ever seen and one of my favorites I want to also mention the Hell House franchise which is FULL of fantastic scares. The one with the clown standing near the stairs in the first movie is the most iconic moment in the whole franchise. The third movie has my favorite jumpscare (and second most effective behind Skinamarink) of all time
the one jumpscare that got my ass was in grave encounters where they find a girl wearing a patient gown and standing in the corner. scared the SHIT out of me when i was younger.
1:29 That zoom, and that word placement. Bro, true masterpiece, for real life. Great video! Now I'm mentally fed for the rest of the week! Keep it up, dude! 😉
The only jump scare that got me was the homeless guy in Mulholland Drive because it was so unexpected and the build-up was there, so it felt earned as a jumpscare.
Nailed it with these. I too just recently watched lake mungo, and jaws for the first time. Pretty much all I watch is horror, so a bit desensitized, but those two jump scares have stuck out the most in the recent movies I’ve seen. The lake mungo scene also had the dread feel that I enjoy more than jumps. Really well done. Would love to see more of your picks!
Really good picks! Lake Mungo was something that was so exceptionally creepy. I'm practically never scared by mainstream films by that was an uniquely scary and sad experience. As for Insidious, when I was 10 and first saw the image of that red-faced demon, it traumatized me so bad I couldn't look at it for years. Eventually I finally saw it and I've got over. Still, it goes to show how effective that scare is.
4:34 One of the first jump-scares ever might have even been 1896's "Arrival of a Train" considering people had never seen the POV of a train pulling into a theater before and there were some audience members who supposedly freaked out
The Haunting of Hill House, the car scene. If you know, you know. Got me the worse, by far. Scared me so bad that I yelled and called the TV a mother......yeah.
Its not really a jump scare per se but its a really quick cut .The intro portion of Hereditary when Annie is going through her moms belongings and she stops for a second and you can see a very faint outline of her deceased mother in the dark. The musical score and the abruptness of that scene sent a huge chill down my spine.
My favorite jumpscare in horror(which isn't mentioned here) is from The Exorcist III Legion. Also, the Ghost Car video origin mentioned in the thumbnail was actually a line of commercials from German company K-Fee advertising their energy coffees. Either they have a zombie or gargoyle popping onto the screen after some peaceful footage. There's even ads for K-Fee's diet beverages, but the jumpscares are replaced by a man saying "Boo!" in a mocking way, a teddy bear, and a guy in a bear costume. The Screamer Wiki confirmed so.
I watched insidious at a sleep over the year it came out, and oh my god that scene of darth maul over the shoulder absolutely scared me shitless. To this day nothing has gotten me like that
Signs was what got me into horror. It scarred me for a couple years as someone who grew up in the woods but I have to thank Shyamalan for genuinely changing my life with it ❤
That Cat People jump scare holds up. I'm a horror movie veteran and that thing still got me! . The KING of all jump scares the one no one knows or talks about is the ending of an old Audrey Hepburn movie, Wait Until Dark. I watched my sister come LITERALLY a foot off the couch when we watched it. I mean she JUMPED
I’m 35 and have a very big tolerance for jump scares and horror in general. The one I remember the most was that scene of the dead girl in the closet in the ring. I was 12 when I saw it and it got me GOOD.
I went into that film knowing and waiting for that jumpscare so when it came it was more like an ‘oh it’s that, it’s the thing!’ Reaction than actually getting scared which sucks because it’s a brilliant scene and I’m sure going into it not knowing anything makes it even better, so that kinda sucks but oh well
As said before, Lake Mungo is one of the few movies that have ever been able to make me feel like i need to take a shower after watching. Along with The Poughkeepsie Tapes imo
On the subject of signs. I think the best jumpscare was simply when the alien stuck its hand out from under the door. The scene had no music, we say the shadow of the alien under the door, and that jumpscare haunted my nightmares for like a couple weeks afterwards
My two favorites that weren't included are the jump scare in the crawlspace from the movie Caveat and my other favorite one is the tall dude from It Follows. What a fun video. Would love to see a part 2!
one of my first jumpscare is when I was playing Mortal Kombat 4 at fifth grade, the game over death screen when the character got spiked by those spears after falling for 10 seconds made my heart skip a beat and I legit had a panic attack lol
the broadcast from Signs still gets me to this day. i hate that movie, not bc it's bad, but bc i saw it way too young and the sound design and tension was peak.
The jumpscares I remember the most usually are also the most impactful for the characters and/or the scene that they're in. The one that comes to mind as an example is towards the end of the first "Alien" movie, when the Ripley had just escaped the Nostromo, and the day seems to have been won. She undresses, she prepares for cryo, she sets something on the table... then Xeno grabs at her from his absolutely perfectly-camoflauged hiding spot. The build-up wasn't really there, but it lasted because it just threw off the balance of power of the story, and the purpose of the scene is now *completely* different than you thought it was less than a second ago.
MY HEART LITERALLY PICKED UP WHEN I HEARD “The Ring” BECAUSE I KNEW THE SCENE AND IT STILL HAUNTS ME. I have to be careful of reviews for this exact scene 😭😭😭
Honestly, hearing that your grandmother exposed you to the zombie car video at such a young age.. no further explanation needed as to why you generally don't like stupid jump scares 😅
very fun anecdote about the ring's jumpscare. me and my friend had just come home from watching smile 2 (great movie!) and decided to watch the ring right after. i was TOTALLY engrossed in it, it was dark and quiet, and the jumpscare was so unexpected and horrifying so i turn to my friend next to me and he mimicked the face so well i almost shit myself. funniest thing to laugh about now but in the moment i seriously thought he was dead
Not even horror, but the scene in Dead Poets Society where Neil shoots himself at his parents' house... there's a shot where his dad wakes up suddenly in bed, with a rapid camera movement and jolt of sound... no matter how many times I've seen it, that shot still makes me jump.
one jumpscare that i forever remember, is from the movie Gravity, where the main character is checking out the abandoned ship in space and the d*ad spaceman appears, similar to the Jaws jumpscare in this video
The most recent horror movie to make me jump out of my seat multiple times was oddity. Especially the jumpscare in the bedroom with the camera flash was so unnerving
I’m new to your channel. Good stuff man. I’m pretty numb because I watched so many horror movies growing up. I usually watch them now on my phone or iPad with AirPods in for the immersion. I will say, as boring as it was, that Skinamarink, when Kevin goes to look for Kaylee in the basement and the music hits right when the camera pans to her mouth-less face got me real good.
I know it's not a movie, but Nell's scream mid-argument in The Haunting of Hill House definitely got me. Also the lawnmower tape scene from Sinister (my favorite horror movie).
I’m 31 years old now and not afraid to admit it, The Ring closet corpse scene made me sleep with the lights on for about 2 years until I got therapy. Keep in mind I saw the movie at a sleepover when I was 8. Maybe don’t show this to your kids.
I was a film major in college and my buddy and I used to try to take in a horror movie every night, when possible. We happened upon Lake Mungo and were hooked. Referencing our Tom Gunning essays and this and that and slowly our dialogue dies down as this feeling of dread comes over us while these slow zooms seen throughout the movie meet their awful parallel in the sequence you showed here. The exposure that makes the jacket on the corpse invisible, giving the impression that some severed, staked head is floating towards you - and then that stab in the score. I involuntarily launched myself headfirst into my best friends asscheek and screamed "HELP!" - the combination of the jumpscare and the apparent sensation of a feral animal forcing itself on him sent my friend into some kind of momentary seizure. I've never been more utterly frightened. I miss him. We haven't lived near one another in over 5 years now. And whenever we talk, we always go on about wanting to watch horror movies together like we used to. To cite Lake Mungo as an example, the best jumpscare happens not only when an audience is narratively engaged, but when there's conscious or semiconscious awareness of the metaphor at play in the sequence. Or, when they're German coffee advertisements.
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Jump scares where the main character doesn’t even notice it is the scariest , especially if it’s in the background
Like the lady in Insidious 2? When the wife is on the phone walking through the hallway and the Lady is in the living room sitting there... menacingly.
I forgot all the names.
I'm interested in other examples. I like this concept of unnoticed scares.
The scene in Creep when the stalker shows up behind the main character through the windows of his house and he doesn't notice?? I started yelling at the scream out of indignation lol
Like the scene in hell house
The Strangers when a guy stands in the background in complete silence
The monster in the background in Before I Wake
Some of the scariest jumpscares I’ve seen:
- the lawnmower scene from Sinister. Extra cool because Ethan Hawke wasn’t told what was gonna be on the tape, so his character’s reaction to watching it was genuine
- that scene in the first Alien film where the girl’s in the tunnel or vent or whatever with the radar that beeps as the xenomorph gets closer
- the tall guy from It Follows
Yes! All great suggestions!
Yup all of them made me jump from my seat. Coming from an avid horror fan
Mention of that Alien scene can never not remind me of Willie in the vents on the Simpsons.
Yeah I agree, and it seems the majority of people also agree as these all seem to show up consistently in people’s lists of the best jumpscares
Every other movie WISHES their jumpscares were as effective as the Sinister lawnmower or the It Follows tall guy.
Silent jump scares are the only ones that are actually scary.
The loud ones are like cheating.
A fucking loud noise will startle anyone.
Exactly. Hereditary 2018. You know the scene... been watching horror 25+ years and that cut, that fucked me up real good, something you really can't unsee. but again, the reason it was so effective was when it was decided to be shown not to mention how brilliantly written and acted the movie was, profoundly disturbing movie, one of the few times I honestly felt dread in any horror movie... goddamn.
The loud noise gimmick works amazing IF the sound is not an added sfx, but rather actually something that the characters themselves can hear.
Like, yea a loud and sudden music or a "scary sfx" will get me, but is nowhere near as effective as when sounds like a sudden creaking in the woods, door slamming, or just anything from the environment itself suddenly makes a loud and distinct noise.
But yes, silent jumpscares are still definitely the best kind.
@@mylesaway2566oh my god hereditary fucked me up that movie was terrifying
Bilbo Baggins will beg to differ.
I more or less agree since you DON'T need anything else then the sudden loud noise to scare the wits out of you
Any kid growing up in the 80s who played the video game Sinistar would know this. At a certain point in the game your computer enemy would finish construction of the Sinistar warship which it would immediately start hunting you down while yelling "BEWARE I LIVE!!" at the loudest possible volume speakers could handle at the time. Needless to say, very few gamers could focus long enough to keep playing when this happened because they kept having the bejesus scared out of them. 🙀
Scariest jump scare that I got when I was a kid, was definitely that one scene from SpongeBob where it showed Nosferatu flickering the lights in the Krusty Krabs. Sent shivers down my spine and had me looking around my living room twice.
@@venomfan9758 I can’t believe Nosferatu from SpongeBob is actually getting his own movie, how cool this that?!
That wasn't even a jumpscare
@@AverageYTUser62 you better be joking
@@Schloobster no seriously dude they're making a movie about that guy from the episode, look it up. it comes out on Christmas I think?
@@aarongarcia5037 no dude please be joking because the character doesn’t originate from SpongeBob you absolute dullard. He’s from the 1924 movie called “Nosferatu”. They are remaking it on Christmas. God.
The Grudge bed scene in both the original and remake.
The bed is a safe zone, you can’t do that!!!
That jump-scare traumatized me sm I never watched the grudge again my bf teases me w the noise all the time lol
That whole movie scares the hell out of me to be fair 🙈
OMGG SAME
Lake Mungo’s scare doesn’t make me jump out of my skin but my god does it make my stomach s i n k. Her decrepit face, the thought of encountering your own dead spirit, the uncanny and eerie feel. It sinks in and latches into your bones!
@@matrixiekitty2127 that scene and the investigation photos of her body are some of the most harrowing things I’ve seen in a movie
Yep, and it's actually different and unique, we need more films/scenes like that
I haven’t watched the video yet but this scare was the first thing I thought off
The thing that makes this jumpscare memorable to me is how multilayered it is, like what you just mentioned. You get the initial shock of seeing her face appear from the darkness, but also the philosophical horror of it all when you take some time to run it through your mind.
I remember when I first watched the movie I felt like my brain was melting.
Which is funny because it doesn't frighten me much on a rewatch. Probably going to sound funny, but I absolutely love Lake Mungo in the sense of 'poignantly realized docu-drama about a grieving family'
The Insidious jumpscare still scared me in this video even though I knew exactly what was coming...I can't even be mad
One of the best jump scares ever made.
The best one
People always bring this one up, but to me, it's such a generic and boring jumpscare. I really don't understand how people find it scary. Maybe it's because it came out a while ago and I only saw it recently...
@ I think what makes it scary is the subversion of expectations on the scene, because on that scene the woman is narrating the creepy experience which she had, her narration comes with a flashback and it already is quite scary, but it serves to purposes, one it creates tension, but second it creates a false sense of security, in which the danger is on the flashback not on the present moment, so you expect the scare to happen during the flashback but it happens on the present moment, it gets you off guard. But that’s only my opinion.
Haha same man. I almost dropped my phone in the bus watching that scene here again. I feel silly for falling for it again.
That Lake Mungo one is insane, the way the movie has a consistency as a professional documentary, exposing the fake photos the brother made, having an explanation to everything, unless this part, and what a moment. It really terrified me, I think nobody expected that and the idea of your own corpse in the dark walking into you is so f terrifying, along with the phone footage (Insanely well done). The movie was so good until this point but that scene just made it brilliant.
lake mungo actually scared me so much i couldnt stop thinking of her face for like a month
I looked away again while watching this
Yeah, i was like, wtf
I LOVE it! I just rewatched it the other day. Also, I've been to that town many times, and it makes it even scarier for me. 😄
I watched that before i went to sleep and i didnt wanna shut my light off. I was deadass so freaked out
That's how I felt about the incantation old woman. I even got annoyed that I had to turn back on my light before I went to sleep
I love Signs. Signs made me not want to look into my garden at night. The alien behind the bush is so creepy with the music and the screaming. But another really creepy scene was when the dad is putting the little girl back to bed and he glances out the window and there's this shadow figure just standing on the roof staring at them. So creepy!
Signs traumatised me as a kid. I was terrified of aliens abducting me after that movie, so much that I ended up sleeping with the pillow over my head so I was fully “covered up” if they ever broke in to take me. It forever warped the way I sleep, as I still sleep most comfortably with my head under the pillow!
@AllG98 For about 10 years I didn't even like to say the word 'it' just in case it made that clown appear and get me. Yay cinema traumatising kids!
I really like the "trapped in one place" genre of movie
@@ViskayaNuebler79hey brother 😂
I love signs too, that movie scared me so much as a teen, and it is full of good jump scares, but on the perfect measure.
Lake Mungo is a hard watch. Rarely a film leaves me feeling genuinely sad afterwards.
It was so creepy sad and just disgusting
Yeah, my brother shown me it and he found it really scary. I loved it dont get me wrong but it was more creepy and unsettling for me. The thing that it left me with though was like you said a lingering sadness, and I feel like it was the most genuine and real portrayals of grief in a movie I have seen. Honestly can’t think of a movie or show that has done the same
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The lake mungo jump scare is SO good because it doesn’t rely on the typical tricks that go into crafting most jump scares. It’s just that everything about that situation is absolutely horrifying already in the most dreadful kind of way. And to top it off, that fucking face, which is mundane enough to seem real but just about as terrifying as it can look without disrupting suspension of disbelief, is just fucking staring at you for what feels like forever. I’ve seen the movie 3 times and my blood goes cold every time I see it. I hate it.
The beginning of Mulholland Drive always makes my stomach drop. David Lynch literally walks you up to the jumpscare and it’s still super effective.
I had just read your comment, opened a news website, and saw David Lynch died 😭
May he rest in peace
One that isn't a horror movie but deserves to be on this list, is "The Diner Scene" from Mulholland Drive by David Lynch from 2001. If you haven't seen it, it's a really scary but very unusual jumpscare.
Mulholland Drive is a horror movie
Mulholland Drive is a fever dream.
Agree! it scared the shit out of me because I couldn't figure out if it was human or not 💀
So true. Inland Empire as well has some dastardly scares.
I had just read your comment, opened a news website, and saw David Lynch died 😭
When you uploaded the Lake Mungo-Actually scary horror movies video I inmediately watched Lake Mungo and I cannot thank yoy enough, it has become my favourite horror film of all time!
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I’d recommend Ryan Hollingers channel he covers some really great horror movies.
Same here!!
One jump scare that really gave me goosebumps recently was the car jump scare in Smile 2 when Sky is in her bed with her friend. It caught me so off guard and when I realized that the glowing from the face was actually the sound of the car it literally sent shivers down my spine.
gosh me too I watched that in theaters with my friend and literally screamed like I suspected Sky was talking to herself and there was going to be a jumpscare just because of the amount of silence but how they did the jumpscare (not trying to give any spoilers if anyone sees it and hasnt watched it!) was so unexpected. I literally screamed so loudly people around me laughed. and i was the only one that screamed 🫠 still loved the movie tho
i’ll rewatch smile 2 and that jump scare STILL gets me
The lawnmower scene from Sinister 1 made me and my friends do a cartoon jump out of the sofa it was actually crazy
You've already talked about this scene in Caveat before, but the one where he's crawling through the rafters and the dead mom pops up for a split second gets me every time.
Hah yes, I watched it with a friend who’s not that big into horror films and he literally jumped and just shouted ‘No! She’s supposed to be dead!’ And he repeated that for the next few scenes with her in. That made it even better.
Ironically the most recent jumpscare to get me was in Long Legs when he met Lee Harker. I actually yelped, causing some of the others to laugh lol. I think it was because the theater was at max volume, like I could hear the whistle of a characters nose. So that was definitely a shock for me.
My dad saw JAWS when he was 7 years old at the theater, and nearly crapped himself at the pale head. He looked at his dad and said "I wanna go home, I'm ready for my nap now..." his dad said "we're not leaving this movie." Even though he was equally freaked out.
my favorite jumpscare has to be the car scene from haunting of hill house, the build up is amazing and it still manages to scare me even after i know its coming.
Hill house has some of my favorite scares. Throughout the show, in the scenes with the house there are always ghost lurking in the background but they never focus too heavy on them it's just one of those things you kind of notice watching it, but there is one scene where they are in the kitchen and the girls are standing next to that enclosed area where that basement door is and the ghost is staring down at them and it made me jump because it's so in your face compared to all the other sightings. Love that show it's so beautifully made.
I am SO GLAD there is someone else in the world who was as traumatized and mesmerized as I was watching Lake Mungo!
The Ring was the scariest movie I'd ever seen (I was a kid) until I saw Lake Mungo 10 years later. I've watched The Ring multiple times since but I never touched Lake Mungo again lmao
The scariest jumpscare is the Bilbo jumpscare from Lotr: Fellowship of the Ring and its not even a horror movie. I always look away. It still messes me up to this day.
The insidious jumpscare was my first ever jumpscare. it holds a special place of fear and disdain in my heart to this day
The Exorcist 3 has the best jumpscare ever
Yes. This is the correct answer. The tension brought on from the like…4 minute…lingering hallway shot. You KNOW something is going to happen but you don’t know what. The ultra fast camera zoom on the nurse is so incredibly effective. Absolute god tier jump scare.
The most effective jumpscare HAS to be from Caveat, when the guy flashes his flashlight at the mom in the crawlspace, it’s almost completely silent and there not loud unnecessary sound to add to the scare, and still I didn’t stop thinking about it for weeks. Not many people I know at least have seen that movie and I think it’s so underrated. That whole movie made me feel like I was dying.
That one sent shivers down my spine. That was a good scare.
OMG this movie is so underrated. It has one of the most unique styles of horror genre execution in my opinion. I rarely feel anything that raw from other horror movies.. The image of the woman's wide eyes slowly appearing but the wall is still covering half her face literally scared me so much it lives in my brain and I kind of want it out..😭
As soon as I saw the ring, I knew it was “I saw her face”. I don’t think I’ve ever been that scared in a movie theater
The first conjuring the dresser jumpscare, the bait of something in the closet then it’s up top got me so bad. Also the clap game hands in that movie
Yes, I saw Jaws in the theater when it first came out. Everyone in the theater screamed when that head rolled out. The next day it was the one part of the movie I told my friends about.
The jumpscare with the telephone toy in Skinamarink is the scaredest I've ever been. Skinamarink as a whole is the scariest movie I've ever seen and one of my favorites
I want to also mention the Hell House franchise which is FULL of fantastic scares. The one with the clown standing near the stairs in the first movie is the most iconic moment in the whole franchise. The third movie has my favorite jumpscare (and second most effective behind Skinamarink) of all time
the one jumpscare that got my ass was in grave encounters where they find a girl wearing a patient gown and standing in the corner. scared the SHIT out of me when i was younger.
Yeah that jaws jumpscare scene still gets me uncomfortable to this day lol, but I’m also terrified of dark deep water lol
1:29 That zoom, and that word placement.
Bro, true masterpiece, for real life.
Great video! Now I'm mentally fed for the rest of the week! Keep it up, dude! 😉
The only jump scare that got me was the homeless guy in Mulholland Drive because it was so unexpected and the build-up was there, so it felt earned as a jumpscare.
Nailed it with these. I too just recently watched lake mungo, and jaws for the first time. Pretty much all I watch is horror, so a bit desensitized, but those two jump scares have stuck out the most in the recent movies I’ve seen. The lake mungo scene also had the dread feel that I enjoy more than jumps. Really well done. Would love to see more of your picks!
Really good picks! Lake Mungo was something that was so exceptionally creepy. I'm practically never scared by mainstream films by that was an uniquely scary and sad experience. As for Insidious, when I was 10 and first saw the image of that red-faced demon, it traumatized me so bad I couldn't look at it for years. Eventually I finally saw it and I've got over. Still, it goes to show how effective that scare is.
Not going to lie, the phantom in the hallway scene from Inland Empire has stuck with me for so long omg
this one is fucking crazy
4:34 One of the first jump-scares ever might have even been 1896's "Arrival of a Train" considering people had never seen the POV of a train pulling into a theater before and there were some audience members who supposedly freaked out
The Haunting of Hill House, the car scene. If you know, you know. Got me the worse, by far. Scared me so bad that I yelled and called the TV a mother......yeah.
Its not really a jump scare per se but its a really quick cut .The intro portion of Hereditary when Annie is going through her moms belongings and she stops for a second and you can see a very faint outline of her deceased mother in the dark. The musical score and the abruptness of that scene sent a huge chill down my spine.
Hereditary's scares always make me feel unsettled no matter how many times I watch. It's disturbing.
the ring jumpscare got me SO GOOD the first time i watched it, probably my favorite jumpscare ever
My favorite jumpscare in horror(which isn't mentioned here) is from The Exorcist III Legion.
Also, the Ghost Car video origin mentioned in the thumbnail was actually a line of commercials from German company K-Fee advertising their energy coffees. Either they have a zombie or gargoyle popping onto the screen after some peaceful footage. There's even ads for K-Fee's diet beverages, but the jumpscares are replaced by a man saying "Boo!" in a mocking way, a teddy bear, and a guy in a bear costume. The Screamer Wiki confirmed so.
some missed ones
1. conjuring 1 ghost on cupboard and legs beside lorrain
2. host 2020 background kill that characters didn't even notice
The laundry scene in THe Conjuring 1, where the sheet blows off the line and hits an invisible figure. Chefs kiss
Oh, yeah, The Conjuring one got me! I've always loved Wan's Conjuring series more than the Insidious movies. Definitely more than Saw.
I watched insidious at a sleep over the year it came out, and oh my god that scene of darth maul over the shoulder absolutely scared me shitless. To this day nothing has gotten me like that
Hereditary, last 10 minutes when the mother is crawling on the roof 😭😭
3:34 so essentially 80 years ago they didn’t know what a jump scare was (yet) but they knew how not to make it suck
Signs was what got me into horror. It scarred me for a couple years as someone who grew up in the woods but I have to thank Shyamalan for genuinely changing my life with it ❤
The lawnmower junpscare in Sinister gotta be one of scariest of all time. Smile 1 and 2 also had some that got me
The jump scare from The Ring FUCKED me up…to this day!! an incredible movie!!!
the friday the 13th jumpscare got me so bad as a kid watching it on my tv in my room alone, definitely my favorite jumpscare of all time
That Cat People jump scare holds up. I'm a horror movie veteran and that thing still got me! .
The KING of all jump scares the one no one knows or talks about is the ending of an old Audrey Hepburn movie, Wait Until Dark. I watched my sister come LITERALLY a foot off the couch when we watched it. I mean she JUMPED
I’m 35 and have a very big tolerance for jump scares and horror in general. The one I remember the most was that scene of the dead girl in the closet in the ring. I was 12 when I saw it and it got me GOOD.
THE TALL MAN FROM IT FOLLOWS💀
YES THIS
That was not scary
I went into that film knowing and waiting for that jumpscare so when it came it was more like an ‘oh it’s that, it’s the thing!’ Reaction than actually getting scared which sucks because it’s a brilliant scene and I’m sure going into it not knowing anything makes it even better, so that kinda sucks but oh well
The notification I got for this video is the best jumps scare I have had in awhile. Been missing your content, man! Glad to see you in my inbox again.
It’s always a good day when zeark posts ;)
The blood test scene in The Thing 1982 is always a hit. Everytime I've shown it at a movie night it always gets a great reaction out of everyone😂
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The opening scene in Mulholland Drive is the best jumpscare out of any movie ever.
Lake Mungo is so fucking gooooood.
As said before, Lake Mungo is one of the few movies that have ever been able to make me feel like i need to take a shower after watching. Along with The Poughkeepsie Tapes imo
I don't know why but car scene jumpscare from series called haunting of hill house really got me.😅
On the subject of signs. I think the best jumpscare was simply when the alien stuck its hand out from under the door. The scene had no music, we say the shadow of the alien under the door, and that jumpscare haunted my nightmares for like a couple weeks afterwards
bro the Lake Mungo’s jumpscare got me so bad that i dropped my phone xD
The Exorcist III with the ice cracking scene gets me everytimeee!!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the jumpscare from the Exorcist 3
That is my favorite scene in any horror movie
Greatest jump scare in cinema history and an absolutely underrated movie.
My two favorites that weren't included are the jump scare in the crawlspace from the movie Caveat and my other favorite one is the tall dude from It Follows. What a fun video. Would love to see a part 2!
The jump scare that got me the most was in The Exorcist III. If you know, you know.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. The Large Marge scene? Nah bro my innocence was gone I was like 4 💀💀💀
Yessssss!🤣👏👏 That made me nearly crap my pants when I was a kid!😆😆
Innocence.
YES THANK YOUUUUUU
Scared me stiff as a kid
one of my first jumpscare is when I was playing Mortal Kombat 4 at fifth grade, the game over death screen when the character got spiked by those spears after falling for 10 seconds made my heart skip a beat and I legit had a panic attack lol
Thumbnail made me realize that isolated jumpscare frames out of context would make good memes
the broadcast from Signs still gets me to this day. i hate that movie, not bc it's bad, but bc i saw it way too young and the sound design and tension was peak.
8:10 Mr Bean head on a baby body is a jump scare in itself
When you brought up the ring, I knew exactly the scene haha. Messed me up as a kid
My favourite jumpscare is the lawnmower running over a head jumpscare from Sinister 🥰
That shrill noise, HOO WHEE, i love it so much 🥰
The jumpscares I remember the most usually are also the most impactful for the characters and/or the scene that they're in. The one that comes to mind as an example is towards the end of the first "Alien" movie, when the Ripley had just escaped the Nostromo, and the day seems to have been won. She undresses, she prepares for cryo, she sets something on the table... then Xeno grabs at her from his absolutely perfectly-camoflauged hiding spot. The build-up wasn't really there, but it lasted because it just threw off the balance of power of the story, and the purpose of the scene is now *completely* different than you thought it was less than a second ago.
MY HEART LITERALLY PICKED UP WHEN I HEARD “The Ring” BECAUSE I KNEW THE SCENE AND IT STILL HAUNTS ME. I have to be careful of reviews for this exact scene 😭😭😭
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Honestly, hearing that your grandmother exposed you to the zombie car video at such a young age.. no further explanation needed as to why you generally don't like stupid jump scares 😅
It's good to see a fellow Lake Mungo connoisseur. Probably my favorite found footage horror movie.
very fun anecdote about the ring's jumpscare. me and my friend had just come home from watching smile 2 (great movie!) and decided to watch the ring right after. i was TOTALLY engrossed in it, it was dark and quiet, and the jumpscare was so unexpected and horrifying so i turn to my friend next to me and he mimicked the face so well i almost shit myself. funniest thing to laugh about now but in the moment i seriously thought he was dead
Lake Mungo is such an eerie and disturbing movie. True definition of horror, I love it.
the American remake of The Ring was my first horror movie as a kid. I still look away when she says “I saw her face…”
I had to skip the Lake Mungo segment, I watched it like 5 years ago and I never want to see that part again lol. Way too scary
Not even horror, but the scene in Dead Poets Society where Neil shoots himself at his parents' house... there's a shot where his dad wakes up suddenly in bed, with a rapid camera movement and jolt of sound... no matter how many times I've seen it, that shot still makes me jump.
10:05 I was watching the video thinking nothing of it, but my blinds touched my feet, which scared me big. I thought that thing touched my foot, ngl.
one jumpscare that i forever remember, is from the movie Gravity, where the main character is checking out the abandoned ship in space and the d*ad spaceman appears, similar to the Jaws jumpscare in this video
The most recent horror movie to make me jump out of my seat multiple times was oddity. Especially the jumpscare in the bedroom with the camera flash was so unnerving
The build up and the scare from the tent scene in the beginning genuinely shocked me (and I liked it)
I’m new to your channel. Good stuff man. I’m pretty numb because I watched so many horror movies growing up.
I usually watch them now on my phone or iPad with AirPods in for the immersion. I will say, as boring as it was, that Skinamarink, when Kevin goes to look for Kaylee in the basement and the music hits right when the camera pans to her mouth-less face got me real good.
That jaws jumps are changed me as a child, I have never felt such horror before that diabolical jump scare
We need a scary movie tier list of the movies you’ve covered on the channel
I know it's not a movie, but Nell's scream mid-argument in The Haunting of Hill House definitely got me.
Also the lawnmower tape scene from Sinister (my favorite horror movie).
I’m 31 years old now and not afraid to admit it, The Ring closet corpse scene made me sleep with the lights on for about 2 years until I got therapy.
Keep in mind I saw the movie at a sleepover when I was 8. Maybe don’t show this to your kids.
For me the most efficient jumpscare would be the Bum from mulholland drive
The scariest Jumpscare was the ad at the beginning
I was a film major in college and my buddy and I used to try to take in a horror movie every night, when possible. We happened upon Lake Mungo and were hooked. Referencing our Tom Gunning essays and this and that and slowly our dialogue dies down as this feeling of dread comes over us while these slow zooms seen throughout the movie meet their awful parallel in the sequence you showed here. The exposure that makes the jacket on the corpse invisible, giving the impression that some severed, staked head is floating towards you - and then that stab in the score. I involuntarily launched myself headfirst into my best friends asscheek and screamed "HELP!" - the combination of the jumpscare and the apparent sensation of a feral animal forcing itself on him sent my friend into some kind of momentary seizure. I've never been more utterly frightened.
I miss him. We haven't lived near one another in over 5 years now. And whenever we talk, we always go on about wanting to watch horror movies together like we used to. To cite Lake Mungo as an example, the best jumpscare happens not only when an audience is narratively engaged, but when there's conscious or semiconscious awareness of the metaphor at play in the sequence. Or, when they're German coffee advertisements.
how do you have a scariest jumpscare video without lawnmoer scene from Sinister
I’m absolutely floored that the jump scare from Exorcist 3 wasn’t on here
the mama jump scare where she is on the ceiling and then pops up behind her shoulder traumatized me as a child