The worst(best?) jumpscares for me are the quiet ones where its not super obvious, you just slowly notice something etc in the backround that just makes your whole body do a screenshot
insidious was truly a milestone in horror movies, seeing that fucker just chilling in the background was Way scarier than any jumpscare from any horror movie by then
That little old man child jumping out of the closet genuinely terrified me when I saw Insidious in theatres. I don’t even know why I just hated it’s stupid face so much it made me so uncomfortable
My favorite type of scare is the kind that doesn't have something suddenly appear but instead waits for you to realize it was there the whole time. Sometimes, the scare is instead when the monster *leaves* the shot, the sudden movement catches your eye, and you realize it was just standing there watching.
In "IT" my favorite scare was the scene where the kid Ben is in the library looking at the picture book, and if you look behind him the librarian is literally just standing there, out of focus looking at the camera with this crazy smile for like a whole minute, and I've never heard anyone talk about it.
While not a horror game, in Uncharted 2 there is a fixed camera angle where the shot is obscured by a cave wall. When you go to leave the area you then realize it wasn't cave wall the whole time but was in fact a monster sitting there watching you. I'm also pretty sure they pad that room with other rooms that have a similar camera angle so you're not expecting it. Very scary moment that got me the first time playing.
YUP I remember my first time watching Hereditary and noticing that the mom was floating on the ceiling about halfway through the scene... It's almost like a fun Easter egg lmao
That is my favourite scare in any movie ever. I remember watching Peter sitting up in bed and feeling a bit uneasy but overall unbothered, but the scene felt like it went a little too long to be unimportant. Whilst waiting for a jumpscare or a sound something in the corner of the screen caught my eye because it looked like a slightly different colour to the rest of the darkness. When I realised it was her I gasped. Best horror film ever; Ari Aster is a master in the horror of plain sight.
Oh my god or that one scene very early in the movie when she’s in a dark room and the grandma is in shot for maybe one frame. She turns around and grandma’s gone. It really got me
I loved how in the Haunting of Hill House there weren’t just jump scares but what made it so creepy and uncomfortable was seeing the ghosts in the background but no music built up for you to see them. You just have to look for them and know they’re there when the characters have no clue but you do. I love it that way
the Haunting of Hill house was just brilliant all around, too, the time jumps all lined up so well, and I still believe the bent neck lady episode finale was absolutely ingenious and insanely underrated
They get you so good too because their conversation is so intense... so you are just focused on what they are saying, and their facial expressions, and the moment.... then BOOOOM
That is an example of a perfect jumpscare. It wasn't because of the scenario, camera positioning or lighting, it was because of the story behind the characters and how they relate to each other. Nell's ghost yelled at them because she had it up to here with her sisters' incessant fighting. In Nell's shoes, I would've done the same.
The problem with most horror movies is that usually as the jump scare happens, they edit a loud noise, like a haunting bell to make us jump. There are not really many movies that can jump scare you with just the camera movement or a scary shot, they always edit in some kind of loud noise to the scene.
Some of the greatest jump scares that I've seen employ that very technique. I think this video is overstating Conjuring's use of jump scares as there is still sound or a building of sound. Like in the sixth sense, when Cole is in the bathroom and the woman walks by? thats a perfect jump scare. or in Signs, the reveal of the alien, where its pure tension, that will definitely get you. one of my personal favorites is Paranormal Activity 5, where the spirit camera shows a face moving by, along with the screams of the father and uncle. theres no sound, just that consistent rumbling. great jump scares I think.
This is what makes Haunting of Hill House so good, they don't have too many jump scares or loud noises that feel out of place. I found it to mostly be physiological
Yeah those films confuse startling someone with scaring them. It is easy to startle people with a sudden noise or the like but actually building up that horror is hard
One of the more refreshing jumpscare techniques I've seen recently was what del Toro did in Crimson Peak. He establishes this pattern where the sound drops out completely just a moment before a ghost or something spooky happens, so you are put on edge, and it establishes a pattern in your brain. So later on, he will mess with you by dropping the sound mix when nothing spooky happens, but it keeps you guessing because you expected something jumpy. That kind of editing makes a big difference!
yeah, it's like canned laughter in a bad sitcom. it's not that the sitcom's funny, it's that the laughter tricks viewers into laughing along with "the crowd"
I don't think that's the case. Are you really telling me that you jump every single time a movie has a jumpscare? Because that's what it sounds like by your example. And let's not forget that jumpscares are in nearly ever single horror movie, good or bad. People seem to focus on only the bad horror movies and act like good horror movies never resort to petty tricks like jumpscares when in reality; The Shining has jumpscares, The Thing has jumpscares, The Exorcist has jumpscares, Psycho has jumpscares. Jaws, Alien, The Host, It Follows are all celebrated and acclaimed horror movies that have jumpscares.
Putting him in Manhattan was literally the dumbest idea. Jason works best at the camp because it’s isolated with not a lot of people near to help you. If he cuts the power, you’re screwed. If he destroys your car, you’re screwed. You’re far away from safety and that ups the stakes tremendously. Putting him in a well lit populated area with literally ruins any suspense or sense of urgency. He looks so minuscule. Most of the background characters don’t even react to his presence at all. Then the icing on the cake was adding in literal rapists proving that Jason is the least of everyone’s problems in the real world.
@@ssharkbait it probably could've worked if there was a heavier emphasis that he could be hiding amongst a crowd, waiting for a chance to kill them which was probably the idea behind sending him to Manhattan in the first place
@@kingkief3155 I think that was the point too. The execution was so poor though. I’ve seen movies with a similar premise and it’s awesome when it’s pulled off correctly.
@@ssharkbait incorrect sir. Manhattan at the time was insanely popular so they were targeting a demographic. Marketing has to do with the reason why they set the video there and why others did similar movies. People will watch a movie if they are familiar with the area. It’s like a ego filler. No internet back then so it was all tv and word of mouth. So I’m sure they strategically did that. Jason was never even meant to be far from like 2 movies. Everything starts as an idea. This came after when they figured out that the movies were easy cash cows.
The only jump scare that made me physically scream so loud I’m surprised the cops weren’t called was in The Haunting of Hill House when the sisters were fighting in the car and then the dead sister’s ghost came out screaming in between them. I couldn’t sleep that night. I woke up the whole house too.
I ruined that scene for myself because I accidentally pressed forward and paused at the exact moment while trying to push my keyboard in. I know what you mean though. I saw others get scared with it. My favorite Horror anything.
I don’t really yell at scary/high stress situations but that one was a time where I actually couldn’t help my body from yelling as a reflex to that jumpscare. Awesome show though
God that whole show freaked me out, the bent neck lady got me good, and such a surprise twist at the end there. Same with The Haunting of Bly Manor and the entity that haunts her with the glasses.
I have the theory that it is somehow related with reptiles and some insects and the way they move. Those sudden, darting movements they are capable of give the creeps even if they are perfectly harmless or even running away from me
There’s a scene like this in Annabelle (which was also shown here in this video). That was the first time in my life that I legit screamed (+ it was in a packed cinema). My buddy and I noped the f outta there.
For me it's Insidious' 1 when Elise is describing the demon to Specs and he is frantically drawing it, on Dalton's room. You NEVER get to see it but it's the upper corner angle and Elise hatefully staring at it, and whispering what a horror she is witnessing. That is just NUTS.
I thought the demon scene at the table in Insidious was brilliant. It creates a diversion when both characters are engaging in a dialogue, telling a story, making the audience forget for what is coming. It didnt have any suspenseful music, just deadly silence before we heard the "crack" sound and the final 1 second reveal of the demon's face. It was scary for me. Totally one of the jumpscares that worked.
The jump scare with the demon behind Josh is so effective because you don't expect anything at all to happen. The whole thing is framed as a dialogue that will end normally. Despite the description of it in this video, there aren't really any bread crumbs and there is no anticipation leading up to it, and that's why it's a ballsy move on the film makers part and it actually works
Agree it was totally unexpected. daytime conversation scenes in horror movies are usually deemed as safe to the viewer. Usually in a horror film you can tell which scenes are more about characters and exposition, and which might have danger, and that scene in insidious definitely shook that up.
when I saw insidious with my sis and dad, and that scene came at the same time a glass fell from the window so yes that was the scariest jumpscare for me xDDD
except, you know, that extremely long and slow push-in during the entire conversation.. usually a typical over shoulder convo would have stationary angles, but whether you notice it or not, that push-in builds anxiety in the viewer, winding up like a rubber band before the inevitable snap
STARTLING people is not the same thing as SCARING people. Any sharp, loud noise will make people jump. It's a natural reflex. It's become so difficult to find scary movies that don't rely on this tired trope. I was really hoping this video would criticize cheap jump scares, but it seems to embrace them.
@@slothrocket8540 Yeah. I played Anabelle: Creation for my roommate in college and he was expecting the sting, but it just got really creepy. Freaked him out for sure. I loved that. The story left a lot to be desired, but they went in the right direction with atmospheric horror instead of cheap horror. Hopefully we get more jewels but it seems we're gonna get more political Jordan Peele type horror before that happens.
The new age of jump scares where there’s no “bang” as Alfred Hitchcock called it is genius. Moments in hereditary with minutes of buildup where you see something creepy in the distance just adds to the terror without ever allowing the tension to ease which just keeps the audience on edge. The final scene of the movie is like 10 minutes of pure terror until it reaches a conclusion. Not to mention movies that use conventional jump scares haven’t been as successful in recent years and have dipped a ton in quality
@@thecourier7964 i mean i understand he's supposed to be the host body for whatever demon they worship, but i think naked witches just standing there is a huge letdown. His mom like swimming through the door when he 1st wakes up is also just funny looking instead of creepy
That is one of my favourite jumpscares of all time. When the movie was released on tv, we watched the movie for the first time, my mother, her boyfriend, my sister and me. We all got startled and the boyfriend and me started laughing so hard. But I couldnt sleep at all, because I had nearly the exact same clauset , like in the movie, in my room, right behind my bed.
That scene on INSIDIOUS almost got me killed. not by the scene itself, but with my bestfriend. She was sitting very close to me because she was so scared that something's gonna pop out somewhere then THAT SCENE came where the demon's face peeped from the guy's back and it really freaked her out that she accidentally hit my nape/back neck. I was unconscious for a good 5 mins. I thought she broke my spine tho. Lmao
I’ve become desensitized to jump-scares… I recognize there validity as a technique in horror films, but I’ve seen it so much it has little effect on me. What really works is “the uncanny valley” effect, and the feeling of creepy ness that comes the longer you observe it. Like that one scene in Kairo.
Everything about Kairo strikes you in a bad way lol. Legit, that movie makes you feel uneasy about something the entire time, even if you don't know what you're getting yourself into as the movie progresses. It's too bad Japanese horror fell from grace, because I would love to see more movies come out from them!
Yeah, I would comment about Kairo as well, watched it recently and what a good movie. Lake Mungo ask worked for me for this "uncanny" feeling, there's a particular scene on this movie that I know it'll haunt me every single time I watch it
Something really unnerving is when a whole group of people are acting “wrong” it just really hits straight in the uncanny valley, like in inception where all the people in the dream stop and look at the main characters standing completely still
@@thechloepaige2220 i don’t think it was boring at all. it was actually such a well directed & written story with more depth than i’ve seen in any single horror movie. it isn’t even that disgusting. the point is too create uncomfortable icky feelings because the whole movie is a build up, there’s no quick cheap shots. maybe that’s just not the kind of scary movie you like & that’s okay! but i don’t think cheap is a word anyone would use to describe it.
The best jump scare I have ever seen is undeniably the one from insidious quoted in the video. I remember watching this movie at 4am with my friend, I am slowly following asleep and then BOOM. This jumpscare happen, my heart was beating so strong I could actually hear it and feel it in every part of my body
@@gjkmoda5093 I have seen too much shitty jumpscare ! You know those you see coming from 2km away. This is powerful because you expect it Edit : because you DON'T expect it, that's what I wanted to say. That does change the whole sentence meaning
@@abrahamsanchez7455 You do know that its a social network and everyone can literally fake being a whole other person and not show any little clue about their true selves without you even noticing it, right? Its not my case, but the point is that judging someone by what you see in their profiles (specially youtube profiles literally based on music like mine) is straight up dumb. With that said, I do like horror movies and games, anime and lo-fi music. Where's the problem? Everyone can like everything they want even if those things are basically 2 different worlds, its called 'variety'.
Signs(2002) has the best suspense in any film I've seen. The film instills a sense of dread in the most common of objects: the ringing of windchimes, crackling of a baby monitor, and the rustle of wind in a cornfield. These lead up to brilliant jumpscares because when the peak arrives, it's fast and then cuts away. The figure on the roof, the leg in the cornfield, the hand grabbing Morgan from the coal chute, and the legendary shaky camera in the Brazilian birthday party scene. So so good.
One of the best jump scare was the one in the haunting of hill house, when nell stops her sisters from fighting (EP08)-. We are so consumed with the conversation that it caughts us by surprise (and the leading to it is literally how much the conversation gets louder and intricate, without music or 'breadcrumbs'). But the entire show is phenomenal, especially the first and fifth episodes.
The insidious jump scare really hit different, the fact that in broad day light with other people around in a completely calm scene that jump scare came out of nowhere had me screaming
Insidious demon looking like a knock off Darth Maul but it's the only thing that scared me the whole video. One of the coolest parts about it is that it doesn't rely on darkness at all to make it scary, that scene is brightly lit for a horror movie but it still manages to scare and creep the hell out of me
😂 that was the only reason I clicked on this...I couldn't figure out why an off-looking Maul would be behind Patrick Wilson (I never saw the actual movie)
i was 9 when i saw insidious and i can still remember the screams of my olders sibilings and my crying, that shit came of NOWHERE, i have traumas with it now, thanks
2:55 is also a great use of a fake out. They built all the anticipation throughout the scene, go to where you'd image a jump scare, only to make you feel safe and then actually jump scare you. Solid directing
My favourite jumpscare is the one from Hereditary, where mom is on the ceiling and then crawls away. There's no sound to it, and it's very dark so half of the people who watch it doesn't even realize it was there. I was watching it with my mom, and she couldn't understand why I screamed during the scene. It was only after I showed her the scene again that she proceded to decapitate herself with a string and float away.
@@youknowit5mil it was piano wire. Actually, after she crawls/swims out of the room and the son walks to the living room, there’s a shot of him coming down the stairs I think. In the corner of the shot, you can see a piano that’s been busted which presumably is where she retrieved the piano wire. Freaking awesome movie lol.
I like the jumpscare in Haunting of Hill House. The one in the car. The buildup and jumpscare itself is symbolic and done through the increasing tension in their argument. One of my favorite jumpscares. it was refreshing.
I was just thinking about this! Flannigan does his jump scares so well. They're never without any build up. I really like hill house bc it's more in your face horror, bly is soft and subtle horror with a tiny bit of in your face, and midnight masses classic someone moves or looks in a direction and you get the creatures eyes with a single cello chord is so good.
One additional thing that just makes it even better is the emotional charge, bc Nellie showed up and screamed to stop the sisters from arguing. She just wanted everyone to get along
I think the best jumpscares are the ones where the monster is there the whole time, and the actual shock is when it all of a sudden disappears. The surprise from the vanishing scares you, but then the anxiety of not knowing where the monster is holds that suspense and creates an incredibly scary environment for the rest of the scene until the monster is revealed again allowing for yet another jumpscare.
That one was almost caught me off guard. And also not every jumpscares needs to be complex, The other Darth Maul jumpscare is literally him walking to the window and it caught many people off guard even though they've already knew that there'll be a jumpscare lol.
No. You saw a woman point out a scene that wasn't meant to be a jump scare but a reveal. The bathroom scene with Tamara was a well made one though. She probably doesn't like the movie so picks a scene which wasn't meant to be what she says it is.
@@razrxo Jason Takes Manhatten is a good Friday 13th film. It is different unique & has some great scenes. Plus the charecters are better than VII and the acting is the closest to 'good'. The only things i don't like about it is the silly ghost Jason and the poor effects at the end. Even though budget cuts took most of Manhatten away they still cobbled up something memorable and they worked the hardest in this movie travelling wise & in the series & for a slasher flick. Kills are decent too. To me this is my list of the series. 12 JASON GOES TO HELL 11 A NEW BEGINNING 10 JASON X 9 VII THE NEW BLOOD 8 FREDDY VS JASON 7 FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009) 6 JASON TAKES MANHATTEN 5 FRIDAY THE 13TH 1980 4 F13 PART 3 (3D) 3 JASON LIVES F13 PART 6 2 FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 1 F13 PART 4 FINAL CHAPTER Tell me if you agree and what you would change.
@@razrxo even though i put A NEW BEGINNING low that doesn't mean i hate it. I don't even hate JASON GOES TO HELL. It's just the weakest Friday film. But every single one of them are great. Ethel & Junior where one of the most entertaining charecters of the series. The underrated ones are V, VII, I and FREDDY VS JASON. I felt like putting JASON X but that one is very bad aswell as being very good. it usually gets put as THE worst but it is works WAY better and is alot more entertaining than SEED OF CHUCKY & FREDDY'S DEAD. Which are the worst films of those franchises
Jumpscares aren’t inherently scary. The buildup, atmosphere and payoff are the scary portions. Making someone jolt from a super loud SFX is annoying and a cheap way to achieve someone’s “terror”. It’s not scary, it’s just assaulting a viewers senses with loud noises. They aren’t inherently bad, but most times, like with Blumhouse productions and the conjuring universe use it in a super cheap way.
The Conjuring scare they show in this video is a great example of this. Great buildup ruined by loud noise and that stupid jump. Don't know why, but it made me laugh.
That’s why I cover my ears instead of my eyes during imminent jump scares because it’s always the loud noises that get me more than the actual “monster”
@@violetcrumble512 I am doing a degree in Audio Engineering, and in one of my classes where we focused on sound for films, we watched scenes of a horror movie in silence. This completely took away the "scariness" and was really interesting to see how much sound plays a role in a film being scary.
In my opinion two of the best jump scares I’ve seen in a minute are 1. The lawnmower one from sinister and 2. The tall man from it follows. They both come out of nowhere and are effective at disturbing you even after the scene ends.
Uh was that Jason scene supposed to be a jump scare? I don’t think so, I’m not even sure it would fit most people definition. It’s more like a reveal. But seriously, what a rando scene to keep focusing on. Again. And again.
While I wish they brought up different examples of bad jumpscares, I’m pretty sure that it’s supposed to be a jumpscare. The reveal was when you first see him in the scene. He’s off screen again then the reappearance is triggered by sound cues. But in my opinion some of the scares they counted as good weren’t very good. They may have been good the first few times they were ever done but now all of those scares are formulaic and played out . They don’t work like they used to anymore. Every single time you see a character in the bathroom in a horror movie your mind automatically goes “Oh here comes the mirror scare”. They gloss over some very good jump scares in favor of ones we’ve seen so many times. I think that’s why they used the Jason scene as their bad example, they used to many bad ones as good they didn’t have much to choose from.
@@ssharkbait Doesn't mean they weren't done better than Jason in Manhattan though. I agree, these jumpscares have probably gotten stale from over-reliance, but I'll bet people still jump when they see the genuine scare it's supposed to have, because they have a better setup.
@@chinclucker but its not the "horror creature" that scares people its the incredible loud obnoxious sound effect that is added. i've watched several jump scare clips with and without the "jumpscare sound" and turns out they aren't scary at all.
@@chinclucker sound design? hilarious. Adding a sound that has no relevance to a scene whatsover just for cheap startles is not sound design. nice try though.
Well. The witch from the original "Blair Witch Project". You dont see her even once in the whole movie and she still scares the shit out of you. The useage of the found footage and lightening to minimal the viewers vision is fantastic. I remember a scene from the movie where the witch hunts the girl through the forest at night and you just see some grey movement on the black screen and hear her panicly breathing while running. And the end of the movie is also just so nice done, brimging the imterviews from the start back in memories while not really explaining or pointing out anything specific, leaving the true ending for the perception of the audience
Many people like to crap on the Blair Witch Project but i love it. The part where they're camping and you hear kids in the distance getting closer and laughing and whatnot is soooo terrifying, i think of this every time i go camping in the wild xD And the ending is so well done! When they discover that old house and you're looking through one camera but hearing the sound of the other camera, that's just perfect!! Not to mention the creepy woman in town describing the witch, creepy!
If your movie has a monster, you've got three options: 1. Show it right away and let the audience adjust your it. 2. Show it at the end and hope it's actually scary to the viewer. 3. Never show it and let the audience imagine how horrifying it is. Blair Witch nailed that third option, which I personally think is almost always the best way to go.
my personal favorite is always when they look into a telescope or just in the distance and see a figure very far off, glance away and once they look back, the figure is suddenly closer. I really like that anticipation in those scenes and there's a lot of space for it to be molded differently too
That scene in Insidious is one of my favorite jump scares ever. I love the way the back and forth is done. It's almost like hypnosis when you watch the pendulum go back and forth and then boom!
I don't think that the scene in friday the 13th is meant to be scary, its just Badass how you can't shake Jason off. Even if you are surounded by tens of people, he's just standing there and he's not leaving until you're dead.
My favorite jump scare was that 2007 UA-cam video of the white car coming down that hill. Once me and my mate were at his house after school, back in 2008, and some of his friends from far down south had come up. So, like the truly kind friends we were, we played it to them and said "if you look real close you can see the old granny driving the car". They got so so close to to the screen, like their nose was hitting the CRT screen, then... BAM!!! They jumped so far back and landed on the floor. Good times.
I think the scariest jump scare scene I have ever witnessed was probably the alien in Signs. Despite the movie being overall less scary than many others I've seen, that alien at the birthday party or the alien hand on the son's chest both made me literally die when I first saw them.
Signs is one of the only “spooky” movies I’ve watched, since I’m a wimp. I’m pretty sure the birthday party scene threw me into cardiac arrest for a few seconds.
Be honest While watching that scene from INSIDIOUS, we never imagined that ghost to be appeared behind back. I mean she was just telling her dream she saw to others! Why the hell that red ghost wanted to come out at that time. Maybe he thought that it was his Showtime 😂
the suspense when the medium is describing the demon on the roof and the guy is drawing it was intense too! definitely thought there would be a jump scare there
Yes. It was earned, though. Consistently unsettling scenes for a few episodes, courtesy of the atmosphere and hard-to-see ghosts. The viewer (and family) are already on edge, and that jump scare was placed perfectly.
Well said! To me the scariest "jumpscare" I've ever seen was the closet scene in the American remake of the Ring bc I wasn't expecting at at all!! One moment it's just the main character and her sister talking, then no warning hard cuts to the closet door being thrown open showing one of the most unsettling visuals I've seen put to film; no breadbrumbs, no music sting, just a horrifying image w zero time to prepare yourself. 10/10!
the one from Mulholland Drive is just perfect: the character tells you in advance what he saw in his dream, you're following him slowly out of the restaurant, into the back ... and the soundscape gets tenser, darker ... you know what's about to happen but you still believe it won't ... and then there it is. No quick cut, no BOOH! moment, just a soul-crushing reveal in moderate speed accompanied by just drones and the darkest mood possible, even though it's daytime. Lynch at his best.
@@ettena93 Because it's true? Barely anything happened for most of the movie! There are slow burns and then there's THAT! Totally boring, totally uninteresting, would not recommend. And yes, I understood it perfectly before you invoke the common rebuttal 🙄
The Insidious jumpscare is awesome. I've never seen the movie or scene until now and even though I knew that a jumpscare was coming up as an example, it still got me. It has no place in a back and forth dialogue scene. And the way its just there with no buildup or shaky camera is uncanny. It seems obvious. "Jumpscare works when unexpected" but they start to build up to them and stray away from that.
Unpopular opinion: jump scares are the most effective if none of this stuff is there. It has to be when you’re calm. When literally nothing important is happening, and then BAM. Out of nowhere, no music, no build up, nothing. That’s why the Insidious jump scare was SO good. It came out of nowhere when we least expected it
Only Insidous 1 is the only scary among all movies in that franchise. Can't forget that memories. That red shit head, it terrifies me even it's not moving.
I disagree, if something happens out of nowhere it's more like a surprise, you "jump" just because of instincs, but when the build up exists the jumpscare hits really hard, there were times that I didn't even "jumped" that hard but in the inside my heart almost exploded (exaggerating ofc), that doesn't happem with jumpscares with no build up.
If I made a horror movie, 1. The houses won't have a basement 2. The house will be new and not so large 3. The characters will not be stupid and go to stupid areas 4. I will get 8% slime
This video calls to mine "Kairo | Anatomy Of The Scariest Scene Ever". The buildup up a scene is super important! And it seems that the more horror movies you watch, the more you realize how few effectively build that anticipation and anxiety. For different reasons, Hereditary car scene is another great example. The director and actor skills can either help or hurt this. Great video!
Oh yeah, that’s a good one. I watched that with my cousin when I was 10 and what made the whole thing worse was that at that exact moment the cat clawed it’s way up the couch and pounced on us
The lack of music in the corn field scene from Signs, then you see the aliens leg move into the obscured corn, and at the same time a soft piano begins playing. The best jump scare ever.
I wasn't expecting to see someone here mentioning Signs. Yeah. First saw it as a child and that scene scarred me for life. Here I am in my mid 20's and I still get uneasy whenever Im standing next to a corn field. And I live in a rural area, so... fun. 🤣
You know what other scene is up there in Signs? The one when he is talking with his daughter in her room at night, and when he's about to leave, he look up to the window and the Alien is on the roof watching them. I remember watching that as a child and, I'm in my 20s and I can't still look outside of a window by night. Also... the scene of the Alien behind the bushes in Brazil.
The last good jump scare that got me (and my brother) was that bloody one in the haunting of hillhouse. It came outta nowhere, therefore nobody was expecting it and the scene was already tense with two sisters arguing, driving in the middle of nowhere at night! While watching it, we both screamed that our mom who was in her bedroom got really concerned and came out to check on us. 😂 It was indeed the best one, in recent years! 🙌
A woman with a PhD in Horror , has a poster of Grease 2 . It makes sense , since it’s one of the scariest movies out there . (Note: I actually like grease 2 as well )
I think the absence of music has more impact then scary music, like are you ever watching a movie and all throughout there’s music, then it’s gone but you don’t notice, and when you do there’s this sense of dread. Then all of the sudden there it is, the jump scare.
Most underrated one for me wasn’t really a jump scare. The movie “Signs” really got me as a kid and that scene where the alien is walking by at that kids bday party is terrifying. Something about it being VHS footage, just like in Sinister, gives it a real feel. That’s the gold
*Horror Movie:* [jumpscare intensifies] *Me:* Meh! This movie isn't that scary. *Horror Movie:* _Based on the true story_ *Me:* I fear no man, but that thing... it scares me.
You are lucky I never get scared by horror films so there is no fun for me too watch horror movies before I used to be scared by everything in horror films
Recently the film 'Smile' had a really good fake-out jump scare when it cuts suddenly to a can of cat food being opened, but unlike many other fake-outs it's not accompanied by a cheesy "sting" sound, and it's a product of the film's already overbearingly tense atmosphere, which is I think the best way to do these types of fake scares.
great movie. if u watch the entire thing the scares get kind of tiring but take literally any individual jumpscare from that film and you can see how well executed they are
I really liked Smile! They were a bit heavy on the jumpscares but the scare with the creature pretending to be the therapist was the best one by far, great film!
A lot of people don’t know this but that “creature” in Mulholland Drive is played but the same actress who portrays Valak the nun. Her name is Bonnie Aarons and she’s grossly underrated! She deserves more acknowledgment in the horror community lol.
As a 7 year old at the time, the Jaws corpse head appearing in the hole in the boat, was terrifying. Gives me chills to this day, to remember the absolute terror that invoked. Yeah, my parents kinda sucked in that regard. I still have a phobia about swimming in water I cant see below the surface to this day. Eff Speilberg.
One jumpscare that always gets me is the ending of the lights out short film. It literally traumatized me between the scary visuals of the girl with white eyes and the sting whisper
I love the fact that The Conjuring, Insidious, Mama and It Follows were good examples of what or how good jumpscares are made And the Insidious scene with the demon is the best jumpscare to date in my opinion. Lipstick Demon face caught me off guard in ways my boxer brief had to be thrown in the trash
I love horror movies and watch many of them in theatres. Everytime there’s a jump scare the audience usually laugh after, because they’re fun. But that insidious jump scare with the red face was so unexpected and terrifying every one screamed and no one laughed. I’ve seen the movie many times now but still one of the scariest I’ve seen.
80s slashers aren’t made to be scary. They were made to be campy and gory. That’s why they are great. The narrator picking apart Jason Takes Manhattan is about as pointless as it would be to try to break down the jump scares in Wizard of Oz.
Exactly! That scene wasn’t meant to jump scare you or really scare you at all. It was more like a statement of “You’ll never get away” and is one of my favorites F13 scenes. He’s standing in the middle of Times Square purely focused on them and they feel it
The Descent has maybe the best jump scare I've ever seen. They drop a hint that something is happening like 30 min prior to it actually slapping you. There was such a perfect balance between tension and distraction that I didn't even know how primed I was to be absolutely wrecked when the creature appeared. Nearly broke my damn screen I was so scared.
I feel like I disagree to some extent about jumpscares with no buildup; those are the ones that really terrify me because they catch me off guard. Using breadcrumbs and such lead me to believe that something is about to happen, but jumpscares that come out of nowhere are the most terrifying. One of my favorite examples is in Midsommar when Dani goes into the bathroom, lights a match, and you see her sister in the mirror for a brief second. There's no buildup, no creepy music swell, no misdirection. It's unnerving and chilled me to the bone when I first saw it. Of course the theory McKendry was using is absolutely correct; I don't doubt her on that. The Jaws jumpscare is living proof of that. But my personal favorite kind of jumpscare is the truly unexpected one.
The reason why jumpscares with no buildup falls flat for most people is because the anticipation of something scary to happen heightens the scare effect significantly.
I understand that the breadcrumbs leading to a scare can give people a bit of a warning making them less effective for some people, but it's on the film crew to make it terrifying despite of this. Combating this trope while keeping the same formula is what makes a good horror movie in this day and age. I think the jump scares without any build up that are being referred to in this video are those that are cheap, rely on loud noises, and take virtually no effort to direct. The one like you mentioned are incredibly rare and effective, but so rarely seen.
Yeah i totally agree with this tbh, the buildup can actually make it more predictable in a lot of cases. Some jumpscares are so good because they come completely out of nowhere and strike at the moment where the viewer thought he/she was ''safe''.
I feel like jumpscares with no buildup are kind of cheaty, though, because they almost solely rely on your involuntary reactions to being startled, while the buildup creates genuine terror (when done well) to accompany that reaction. The buildup doesn't always have to be super obvious, like the music changing or spooky noises or the characters getting progressively more terrified. The buildup can consist of subtly placed hints in the background or things you can't quite make out the details of but know they're there, for instance, and it's a lot scarier when the characters don't actually know they're about to get jumpscared because then you're alone with your terror.
I think these scenes aren't even supposed to be jump scares... The audience knows more than the protagonists after Jason is revealed, and that's supposed to keep the tension of the scene high, because we don't know if they will see him before it's too late. That's a totally different tool to create tension.
The 2 main Conjuring movies are some of the best horror movies ever made. Especially some of the best made in our time. They're FAR from "corny." What are you even blabbering on about?
honestly the witch jumpscare in the conjouring still sends shivers down my spine, it was so unexpected and really creepy as that was the first time the audience got to see the witch, in my opinion it was brilliantly made and very effective, might even be one of my favourite jumpscares!
I really had this with "Hereditary". The only jumpscares are at the very beginning and the end of the movie, and the first one where you see Grandma in the corner when the lights are off really made me anxious for the upcoming 2 hours... yeesh
Or the part when Peter Parker got bit and he’s taking a nap in his room on the floor and it shows skeletons and spiders being flashed on screen with that lady narrating yeah I’d go ahead and say that made me shit entire bricks I was so filthy as a child my teacher say I needed to stop watchin that movie but I say no I like the spidermans
For me, the scariest jumpscare ever was the haunting of hill house when they’re in the car and the mother jumps into the front seat, totally unexpected and absolutely horrifying.
I always bring that one up to people because it's so earned. She's not trying to scare them, she manifests from the backseat to stop her sisters from arguing. It's so good.
The worst(best?) jumpscares for me are the quiet ones where its not super obvious, you just slowly notice something etc in the backround that just makes your whole body do a screenshot
By "worst" you mean that they are bad ? Or that they are the most impactful ?
@@noedauwe7329 they leave me with a worse "fear" that lingers longer than the loud ones
The Tall Man scene in It Follows makes my body screenshot every time
@@marcelo.pastorelli Same. When he walks after that one girl in the hallway is such a "oh holy f*ck" moment for me.
@@noedauwe7329 I had the same question lol
This video should be called "Roasting Jason Takes Manhattan for 12 minutes straight"
they should rename the title to "every jumpscare is great except the one from Jason takes Manhattan"
@@ajanthony1356 😂😂
Tony Merla You beat me to it! 😂
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insidious was truly a milestone in horror movies, seeing that fucker just chilling in the background was Way scarier than any jumpscare from any horror movie by then
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nah but sometimes I'm just eating and then I remember the way the thing looked😭😭
That little old man child jumping out of the closet genuinely terrified me when I saw Insidious in theatres. I don’t even know why I just hated it’s stupid face so much it made me so uncomfortable
Exactly
@@oddec8723 What haunts me is the music choice in that movie, I remember the jump scare whenever I hear a similar song.
My favorite type of scare is the kind that doesn't have something suddenly appear but instead waits for you to realize it was there the whole time. Sometimes, the scare is instead when the monster *leaves* the shot, the sudden movement catches your eye, and you realize it was just standing there watching.
In "IT" my favorite scare was the scene where the kid Ben is in the library looking at the picture book, and if you look behind him the librarian is literally just standing there, out of focus looking at the camera with this crazy smile for like a whole minute, and I've never heard anyone talk about it.
The Strangers really nails this.
You see that a lot in Netflix's The Haunting of the Hill House
While not a horror game, in Uncharted 2 there is a fixed camera angle where the shot is obscured by a cave wall. When you go to leave the area you then realize it wasn't cave wall the whole time but was in fact a monster sitting there watching you. I'm also pretty sure they pad that room with other rooms that have a similar camera angle so you're not expecting it. Very scary moment that got me the first time playing.
Exastly! "Mama" had some of them and "The Woman in Black". First movies which came to my mind - of course, there's more.
the scariest jumpscare ever is when you're on youtube during online class and your teacher suddenly says your name and calls on you
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@@joyoduware5615 uh, you can, depends on what you’re using. You can multitask in ipad.
You ever seen a jump scare with no music. Those hit different.
YUP I remember my first time watching Hereditary and noticing that the mom was floating on the ceiling about halfway through the scene... It's almost like a fun Easter egg lmao
Can you give me an example?
that one scene in The Birds where it silently cuts to a man with his eyes torn out
A Quiet Place
@@lucasquinteros222 That movie made me shit my pants at the end lol
That scene in Hereditary where the camera was focused on Peter when in fact the possessed Annie was at the ceiling gave me mini heart attack.
That is my favourite scare in any movie ever. I remember watching Peter sitting up in bed and feeling a bit uneasy but overall unbothered, but the scene felt like it went a little too long to be unimportant. Whilst waiting for a jumpscare or a sound something in the corner of the screen caught my eye because it looked like a slightly different colour to the rest of the darkness. When I realised it was her I gasped. Best horror film ever; Ari Aster is a master in the horror of plain sight.
Not sure if it's a "jump" per say but god damn I have never been so scared
Oh my god or that one scene very early in the movie when she’s in a dark room and the grandma is in shot for maybe one frame. She turns around and grandma’s gone. It really got me
Oh my god I already put this in a different thread but The Strangers did something similar. It was horrifying and amazing and I loved it
That was probably the funniest part of the movie
I loved how in the Haunting of Hill House there weren’t just jump scares but what made it so creepy and uncomfortable was seeing the ghosts in the background but no music built up for you to see them. You just have to look for them and know they’re there when the characters have no clue but you do. I love it that way
the Haunting of Hill house was just brilliant all around, too, the time jumps all lined up so well, and I still believe the bent neck lady episode finale was absolutely ingenious and insanely underrated
There were some jump scares, but they used them at unsexpected times and they didn't overuse them, so they became more effective
fax. Unannounced subtle imagery. This goes against everything this video is saying.
The jump scare from haunting of hill house when those sisters argued in the car had me actually screaming😭😭😭
Legit the only jump scare that ever made me jump and say “HOLY SHIT”
Yeah and they did that without the tense background music - which I think makes jump scares less scary!
Yeah it was unexpected since it was a normal conversation in car and there are more than one person in scene
They get you so good too because their conversation is so intense... so you are just focused on what they are saying, and their facial expressions, and the moment.... then BOOOOM
That is an example of a perfect jumpscare. It wasn't because of the scenario, camera positioning or lighting, it was because of the story behind the characters and how they relate to each other. Nell's ghost yelled at them because she had it up to here with her sisters' incessant fighting. In Nell's shoes, I would've done the same.
The problem with most horror movies is that usually as the jump scare happens, they edit a loud noise, like a haunting bell to make us jump. There are not really many movies that can jump scare you with just the camera movement or a scary shot, they always edit in some kind of loud noise to the scene.
Watch Gerald's Game if you haven't already. It has a moment that does precisely that and boy did it scare me more than any other loud noise jumpscare.
Some of the greatest jump scares that I've seen employ that very technique. I think this video is overstating Conjuring's use of jump scares as there is still sound or a building of sound. Like in the sixth sense, when Cole is in the bathroom and the woman walks by? thats a perfect jump scare. or in Signs, the reveal of the alien, where its pure tension, that will definitely get you. one of my personal favorites is Paranormal Activity 5, where the spirit camera shows a face moving by, along with the screams of the father and uncle. theres no sound, just that consistent rumbling. great jump scares I think.
Yup very annoying, with them being very loud
This is what makes Haunting of Hill House so good, they don't have too many jump scares or loud noises that feel out of place. I found it to mostly be physiological
Yeah those films confuse startling someone with scaring them. It is easy to startle people with a sudden noise or the like but actually building up that horror is hard
Worst jump scares in history: Unskippable double UA-cam ads.
@@alfvina Ever heard of uBlock Origin? 🤦🏻♂️
Here in Indonesia, we have 10 second ads that we can't skip.
@@alfvina Go Vanced
Close the video then open it again.
add block and be done with it.
One of the more refreshing jumpscare techniques I've seen recently was what del Toro did in Crimson Peak. He establishes this pattern where the sound drops out completely just a moment before a ghost or something spooky happens, so you are put on edge, and it establishes a pattern in your brain. So later on, he will mess with you by dropping the sound mix when nothing spooky happens, but it keeps you guessing because you expected something jumpy. That kind of editing makes a big difference!
Wow I watched it twice and never noticed that!
As the silence before a jump scare is nothing new, I guess the new technique is that he introduces false expectations
the only time i get scared is when the screen turns black and i see myself
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true
But what if you are black?
@@AyAy008 hah
Yeh u see how ugly u look in reality
Using a sudden, loud noise to scare people is like a comedian tickling his audience to make them laugh.
yeah, it's like canned laughter in a bad sitcom. it's not that the sitcom's funny, it's that the laughter tricks viewers into laughing along with "the crowd"
@@bigrat4780 You spelled "FRIENDS" wrong
I don't think that's the case.
Are you really telling me that you jump every single time a movie has a jumpscare? Because that's what it sounds like by your example.
And let's not forget that jumpscares are in nearly ever single horror movie, good or bad. People seem to focus on only the bad horror movies and act like good horror movies never resort to petty tricks like jumpscares when in reality; The Shining has jumpscares, The Thing has jumpscares, The Exorcist has jumpscares, Psycho has jumpscares. Jaws, Alien, The Host, It Follows are all celebrated and acclaimed horror movies that have jumpscares.
its not just about the loud noise, like she said, its about the quietness leading to the loud noise, that lulls you into a falls sense of security.
Jumpscare is just one part of horror movies.
The fact that he’s in Times Square is so hilariously bad
Putting him in Manhattan was literally the dumbest idea. Jason works best at the camp because it’s isolated with not a lot of people near to help you. If he cuts the power, you’re screwed. If he destroys your car, you’re screwed. You’re far away from safety and that ups the stakes tremendously. Putting him in a well lit populated area with literally ruins any suspense or sense of urgency. He looks so minuscule. Most of the background characters don’t even react to his presence at all. Then the icing on the cake was adding in literal rapists proving that Jason is the least of everyone’s problems in the real world.
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@@ssharkbait it probably could've worked if there was a heavier emphasis that he could be hiding amongst a crowd, waiting for a chance to kill them which was probably the idea behind sending him to Manhattan in the first place
@@kingkief3155 I think that was the point too. The execution was so poor though. I’ve seen movies with a similar premise and it’s awesome when it’s pulled off correctly.
@@ssharkbait incorrect sir. Manhattan at the time was insanely popular so they were targeting a demographic. Marketing has to do with the reason why they set the video there and why others did similar movies. People will watch a movie if they are familiar with the area. It’s like a ego filler. No internet back then so it was all tv and word of mouth. So I’m sure they strategically did that. Jason was never even meant to be far from like 2 movies. Everything starts as an idea. This came after when they figured out that the movies were easy cash cows.
The only jump scare that made me physically scream so loud I’m surprised the cops weren’t called was in The Haunting of Hill House when the sisters were fighting in the car and then the dead sister’s ghost came out screaming in between them. I couldn’t sleep that night. I woke up the whole house too.
I ruined that scene for myself because I accidentally pressed forward and paused at the exact moment while trying to push my keyboard in. I know what you mean though. I saw others get scared with it. My favorite Horror anything.
JUST CAME TO COMMENT THISSSSS worst jumpscare of my life
Very end of the first episode. That one made me stop for a while
I don’t really yell at scary/high stress situations but that one was a time where I actually couldn’t help my body from yelling as a reflex to that jumpscare. Awesome show though
God that whole show freaked me out, the bent neck lady got me good, and such a surprise twist at the end there. Same with The Haunting of Bly Manor and the entity that haunts her with the glasses.
Best jump scare is when ya watching a freaky video and your parents enters the room.
Damn ur right
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Cause boom boom in the room room yeah especially when its drawn out lol
You know what's really scary. When all of a sudden they go from a far place, being very still to running full speed at you.
The one from Mama really got me bad. Since it's coupled with her horrifying unnatural movements in top of her speed, I legit cried out lol
@@TrateMusic yeah, it's scary! Lol
I have the theory that it is somehow related with reptiles and some insects and the way they move. Those sudden, darting movements they are capable of give the creeps even if they are perfectly harmless or even running away from me
It only works every once in a while...its becoming predictable now.
There’s a scene like this in Annabelle (which was also shown here in this video). That was the first time in my life that I legit screamed (+ it was in a packed cinema). My buddy and I noped the f outta there.
That scene in Insidious was the worst jumpscare of my life and I've watched hundreds of horror movies. That crap really caught me off guard.
Worst as in scary or stupid
@@lem1738 Are asking or stating?
@@FortLahns Asking, sorry
It was and still is the worst scare of my life. 😅
Yes! Like I was just tryna listen attentively to their conversation, and then that thing appeared... 🥺
For me it's Insidious' 1 when Elise is describing the demon to Specs and he is frantically drawing it, on Dalton's room. You NEVER get to see it but it's the upper corner angle and Elise hatefully staring at it, and whispering what a horror she is witnessing. That is just NUTS.
YES BRO
YES YES YES!!!! It was an incredible scene!!!
I thought the demon scene at the table in Insidious was brilliant. It creates a diversion when both characters are engaging in a dialogue, telling a story, making the audience forget for what is coming. It didnt have any suspenseful music, just deadly silence before we heard the "crack" sound and the final 1 second reveal of the demon's face. It was scary for me. Totally one of the jumpscares that worked.
as a kid it scared me so much. it's one of my favorite horror movies to this day
And because it has a human face it makes it more plausible and thats f-cking terrifying
IKR that scene was the the most scariest jumpscare ive ever watch
Sad that the insidious movies after r the second we’re trash
Dude that scene scared me so much
The jump scare with the demon behind Josh is so effective because you don't expect anything at all to happen. The whole thing is framed as a dialogue that will end normally. Despite the description of it in this video, there aren't really any bread crumbs and there is no anticipation leading up to it, and that's why it's a ballsy move on the film makers part and it actually works
Agree it was totally unexpected. daytime conversation scenes in horror movies are usually deemed as safe to the viewer. Usually in a horror film you can tell which scenes are more about characters and exposition, and which might have danger, and that scene in insidious definitely shook that up.
What movie is it from?
@@ToxicPota insidious chapter 1
when I saw insidious with my sis and dad, and that scene came at the same time a glass fell from the window so yes that was the scariest jumpscare for me xDDD
except, you know, that extremely long and slow push-in during the entire conversation.. usually a typical over shoulder convo would have stationary angles, but whether you notice it or not, that push-in builds anxiety in the viewer, winding up like a rubber band before the inevitable snap
The "Sting" is a horrible way to scare people. "If I smack the piano as hard as I can you'll jump" lol. Duh
I hate that people think that just a loud noise will scare you you need to actually use all of these
@@treymonson9496 There was a string of years where almost every horror film was just sting after sting and that's it.
Spittin facts
STARTLING people is not the same thing as SCARING people. Any sharp, loud noise will make people jump. It's a natural reflex. It's become so difficult to find scary movies that don't rely on this tired trope. I was really hoping this video would criticize cheap jump scares, but it seems to embrace them.
@@slothrocket8540 Yeah. I played Anabelle: Creation for my roommate in college and he was expecting the sting, but it just got really creepy. Freaked him out for sure. I loved that. The story left a lot to be desired, but they went in the right direction with atmospheric horror instead of cheap horror. Hopefully we get more jewels but it seems we're gonna get more political Jordan Peele type horror before that happens.
The new age of jump scares where there’s no “bang” as Alfred Hitchcock called it is genius. Moments in hereditary with minutes of buildup where you see something creepy in the distance just adds to the terror without ever allowing the tension to ease which just keeps the audience on edge. The final scene of the movie is like 10 minutes of pure terror until it reaches a conclusion. Not to mention movies that use conventional jump scares haven’t been as successful in recent years and have dipped a ton in quality
The final 10 minutes is more funny then terror lol, naked witches just standing around? I think i can manage
Probably has the best "jump" scare of any movie imo. Only time I actually got surprised and scared for a second
@@Countdownsmiles I’ve seen this take a lot by people who clearly didn’t understand the story set up by the entire movie
@@thecourier7964 i mean i understand he's supposed to be the host body for whatever demon they worship, but i think naked witches just standing there is a huge letdown. His mom like swimming through the door when he 1st wakes up is also just funny looking instead of creepy
The Conjuring's Clap Clap scene HAUNTS me even till now
I feel like that scene is scarier than the witch jumpscare.
Whenever the power goes out during a storm, I always clap clap to make her get scared lol.
That is one of my favourite jumpscares of all time. When the movie was released on tv, we watched the movie for the first time, my mother, her boyfriend, my sister and me. We all got startled and the boyfriend and me started laughing so hard.
But I couldnt sleep at all, because I had nearly the exact same clauset , like in the movie, in my room, right behind my bed.
@@Gl8Dy spooky 👻
That jumpscare didn't register with me for a few seconds so I jumped really late lol
That scene on INSIDIOUS almost got me killed. not by the scene itself, but with my bestfriend. She was sitting very close to me because she was so scared that something's gonna pop out somewhere then THAT SCENE came where the demon's face peeped from the guy's back and it really freaked her out that she accidentally hit my nape/back neck.
I was unconscious for a good 5 mins. I thought she broke my spine tho. Lmao
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That exact scene made me jump so bad i accidentally punched my childhood bestfriend in the face, im glad i didnt knock her out though 😂
At least she has good reflexes? Lol. Glad you're okay
that's some attack on titan shit
I’ve become desensitized to jump-scares… I recognize there validity as a technique in horror films, but I’ve seen it so much it has little effect on me. What really works is “the uncanny valley” effect, and the feeling of creepy ness that comes the longer you observe it. Like that one scene in Kairo.
Everything about Kairo strikes you in a bad way lol. Legit, that movie makes you feel uneasy about something the entire time, even if you don't know what you're getting yourself into as the movie progresses. It's too bad Japanese horror fell from grace, because I would love to see more movies come out from them!
Omg yes yes, I wanted to talk about that scene, the music/sound design is so so good
Yeah, I would comment about Kairo as well, watched it recently and what a good movie. Lake Mungo ask worked for me for this "uncanny" feeling, there's a particular scene on this movie that I know it'll haunt me every single time I watch it
There's a scene in the shrine that got me as a kid. Probably one of my favorite scary movies.
I feel another great alternative to the jumpscare is when the monster is there but you don't notice it til it moves like in The Ritual
Something really unnerving is when a whole group of people are acting “wrong” it just really hits straight in the uncanny valley, like in inception where all the people in the dream stop and look at the main characters standing completely still
I also love it when movies have little to no jumpscares, but you’re very uncomfortable the ENTIRE time, like in Hereditary.
Yes!!! Cuz there you expect something to happen and then it doesn’t. Like when the mother is on the wall.
idk hereditary seemed kind of cheap. It was only uncomfortable because it was disgusting and otherwise it was just boring, yk?
Lovecraftian Horror
hereditary is quite literally the best “horror” film ever.
@@thechloepaige2220 i don’t think it was boring at all. it was actually such a well directed & written story with more depth than i’ve seen in any single horror movie. it isn’t even that disgusting. the point is too create uncomfortable icky feelings because the whole movie is a build up, there’s no quick cheap shots. maybe that’s just not the kind of scary movie you like & that’s okay! but i don’t think cheap is a word anyone would use to describe it.
The best jump scare I have ever seen is undeniably the one from insidious quoted in the video. I remember watching this movie at 4am with my friend, I am slowly following asleep and then BOOM. This jumpscare happen, my heart was beating so strong I could actually hear it and feel it in every part of my body
For me it was a jumpscare in the Haunting of Hill House. Definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it
I think you haven't seen any good jumpscares then...
@@gjkmoda5093 I have seen too much shitty jumpscare ! You know those you see coming from 2km away. This is powerful because you expect it
Edit : because you DON'T expect it, that's what I wanted to say. That does change the whole sentence meaning
@@gjkmoda5093 bro you at your profile I doubt U watch any type of horror movies
@@abrahamsanchez7455 You do know that its a social network and everyone can literally fake being a whole other person and not show any little clue about their true selves without you even noticing it, right? Its not my case, but the point is that judging someone by what you see in their profiles (specially youtube profiles literally based on music like mine) is straight up dumb.
With that said, I do like horror movies and games, anime and lo-fi music. Where's the problem? Everyone can like everything they want even if those things are basically 2 different worlds, its called 'variety'.
"Music gets creepy"
*Coca cola ad starts playing*
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Anticlimax.
or john ossoff is a liar! lol
*music gets creepy*
*"You're not a dish."*
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Signs(2002) has the best suspense in any film I've seen. The film instills a sense of dread in the most common of objects: the ringing of windchimes, crackling of a baby monitor, and the rustle of wind in a cornfield. These lead up to brilliant jumpscares because when the peak arrives, it's fast and then cuts away. The figure on the roof, the leg in the cornfield, the hand grabbing Morgan from the coal chute, and the legendary shaky camera in the Brazilian birthday party scene. So so good.
The birthday party scene looking down the garden path is perhaps m night’s greatest ever horror moment. Joaquin’s reaction too was too real. So good
That birthday party scene gave me nightmares over the second half of my childhood. Fantastic stuff.
IT'S BEHIND
The word “lag” or “lags” when you’re talking about your reflection in a mirror creeps the hell out of me.
Watch 'Us'.
@@InvisiblerApple Oooh. Okay. I’ll give it a go. Just watched “Get Out” and it’s so stressful!
@@WingedEternitys US is on another level. It's so terrifying 😭
@@WingedEternitys I watched Us a while ago in the cinemas and it's absolutely amazing and terrifying at the same time. Have fun watching it! 😉
you just have high ping
The tall guy in 'It Follows' scared the shit out of me
I jumped
First time I've ever actually jumped up
That jumpscare was the first one to actually scare me, but I watch it back and it’s not as bad 😅😅
movie was ok but ill admit that scene got me
Dislike that film, but that scene was very effective.
The film was pointless and terrible but that scene was good
One of the best jump scare was the one in the haunting of hill house, when nell stops her sisters from fighting (EP08)-. We are so consumed with the conversation that it caughts us by surprise (and the leading to it is literally how much the conversation gets louder and intricate, without music or 'breadcrumbs'). But the entire show is phenomenal, especially the first and fifth episodes.
This series is one of the smartest in horror, I stopped watching it because I was too frightened
Thank god somebody spoke about it !! It was a masterpiece, totally unexpected!! Let's just appreciates that brilliant director
I was watching that episode at work in my chair and I literally jumped out and fell out of my seat bc I had headphones in
That movie wasn't not scary at all for me. But I enjoyed the story.
Yes! The haunting of hill house/ bly manor was brilliant it was so good
The insidious jump scare really hit different, the fact that in broad day light with other people around in a completely calm scene that jump scare came out of nowhere had me screaming
Meh it looks like a member of mudvayne
@@spencer6709 the monster looking scary wasn’t what scared me it was the shock factor
Yeah Darth Maul really made me jump
@@gergopiroska5749 bruh it looks stupid the point is if came out of nowhere lol
Insidious demon looking like a knock off Darth Maul but it's the only thing that scared me the whole video. One of the coolest parts about it is that it doesn't rely on darkness at all to make it scary, that scene is brightly lit for a horror movie but it still manages to scare and creep the hell out of me
I think the tall guy in it follows is also super creepy
😂 that was the only reason I clicked on this...I couldn't figure out why an off-looking Maul would be behind Patrick Wilson (I never saw the actual movie)
I thought the demon in insidious looked goofy as hell
Yes haha i was in a discord call and i was spooked too. and i said to the people in the call Darth Maul jumpscared me XD
I remember that Smosh recreated that scene in a video of theirs, probably right when the movie came out . Still scared me, even as an legit knock-off
Worst jump scare: When your mom walks in your room but you know she’s still at the store
Hol up
More like...”Your mom walks in and you didn’t hit the minimise button or pull up your pants fast enough”.
@@TheSilentWalkerz what is even worse is when you have some weird spongebob fetishes
"did you clean your room?"
@@viliusesmontas1515 wa da fuk ☠️
i was 9 when i saw insidious and i can still remember the screams of my olders sibilings and my crying, that shit came of NOWHERE, i have traumas with it now, thanks
LOL get off of the internet little kid.
@@chucklebutt4470 are you stupid? He said when he watched the movie, learn how to read a comment
@@chucklebutt4470 the only 'little kid' here is the one that still uses 'LOL' in a sentence
Why did you watch insidious when you were 9? Lol
i did that exact same thing when i was the same age but watching that is what got me into horror movies.
2:55 is also a great use of a fake out. They built all the anticipation throughout the scene, go to where you'd image a jump scare, only to make you feel safe and then actually jump scare you. Solid directing
ya like they make you think it was a fake scare but its actually a real scare just delayed but 2 extra seconds
My favourite jumpscare is the one from Hereditary, where mom is on the ceiling and then crawls away. There's no sound to it, and it's very dark so half of the people who watch it doesn't even realize it was there. I was watching it with my mom, and she couldn't understand why I screamed during the scene. It was only after I showed her the scene again that she proceded to decapitate herself with a string and float away.
With a rope saw, first time I've ever seen one. It's an educational movie
@@youknowit5mil it was piano wire. Actually, after she crawls/swims out of the room and the son walks to the living room, there’s a shot of him coming down the stairs I think. In the corner of the shot, you can see a piano that’s been busted which presumably is where she retrieved the piano wire.
Freaking awesome movie lol.
@@aaronmiller8625 that attention to detail is remarkable. i need to rewatch that movie
I like the jumpscare in Haunting of Hill House. The one in the car. The buildup and jumpscare itself is symbolic and done through the increasing tension in their argument. One of my favorite jumpscares. it was refreshing.
I second that! That was such a tense, unsettling episode in general too.
That jump-scare is iconic! I wasn’t expecting it at all. My whole house woke up from my scream. I’m surprised the neighbors didn’t call 911!
I was just thinking about this! Flannigan does his jump scares so well. They're never without any build up.
I really like hill house bc it's more in your face horror, bly is soft and subtle horror with a tiny bit of in your face, and midnight masses classic someone moves or looks in a direction and you get the creatures eyes with a single cello chord is so good.
One additional thing that just makes it even better is the emotional charge, bc Nellie showed up and screamed to stop the sisters from arguing. She just wanted everyone to get along
This scene is the biggest jumpscare I have had in my entire life, I was terrified.
The title should be “How Jason takes Manhattan fails as a scary movie”
Alternative Title
Halloween Kills, But Jason Sucks.
I think the best jumpscares are the ones where the monster is there the whole time, and the actual shock is when it all of a sudden disappears. The surprise from the vanishing scares you, but then the anxiety of not knowing where the monster is holds that suspense and creates an incredibly scary environment for the rest of the scene until the monster is revealed again allowing for yet another jumpscare.
Any examples of this? I dont think ive seen this before and im curious
The only jumpscare that caught me off guard was the Darth Maul scene in Insidious and it got me TWICE.
that and the one in "it follows" where this random dude just walks down a hallway to the camera. Most other Jumpscares are cheap imo
That one was almost caught me off guard. And also not every jumpscares needs to be complex, The other Darth Maul jumpscare is literally him walking to the window and it caught many people off guard even though they've already knew that there'll be a jumpscare lol.
@@darkstar7462 lol darth maul
Only scene that has ever made my jump in the past 7 years😂
The ending to Carrie is what got me, the original of course
Did I just see Jason takes Manhattan being roasted for 12 minutes straight?
No. You saw a woman point out a scene that wasn't meant to be a jump scare but a reveal. The bathroom scene with Tamara was a well made one though. She probably doesn't like the movie so picks a scene which wasn't meant to be what she says it is.
@@SamA-cv2ur it clearly wasn't meant to be a jumpscare lol honestly i think that movie is wayyy better then any conjuring movie I've seen.
@@razrxo Jason Takes Manhatten is a good Friday 13th film. It is different unique & has some great scenes. Plus the charecters are better than VII and the acting is the closest to 'good'. The only things i don't like about it is the silly ghost Jason and the poor effects at the end. Even though budget cuts took most of Manhatten away they still cobbled up something memorable and they worked the hardest in this movie travelling wise & in the series & for a slasher flick. Kills are decent too. To me this is my list of the series.
12 JASON GOES TO HELL
11 A NEW BEGINNING
10 JASON X
9 VII THE NEW BLOOD
8 FREDDY VS JASON
7 FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009)
6 JASON TAKES MANHATTEN
5 FRIDAY THE 13TH 1980
4 F13 PART 3 (3D)
3 JASON LIVES F13 PART 6
2 FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2
1 F13 PART 4 FINAL CHAPTER
Tell me if you agree and what you would change.
@@SamA-cv2ur I wouldn't change anything actually this is almost exactly how I'd put em
@@razrxo even though i put A NEW BEGINNING low that doesn't mean i hate it. I don't even hate JASON GOES TO HELL. It's just the weakest Friday film. But every single one of them are great. Ethel & Junior where one of the most entertaining charecters of the series. The underrated ones are V, VII, I and FREDDY VS JASON. I felt like putting JASON X but that one is very bad aswell as being very good. it usually gets put as THE worst but it is works WAY better and is alot more entertaining than SEED OF CHUCKY & FREDDY'S DEAD. Which are the worst films of those franchises
Jumpscares aren’t inherently scary. The buildup, atmosphere and payoff are the scary portions. Making someone jolt from a super loud SFX is annoying and a cheap way to achieve someone’s “terror”. It’s not scary, it’s just assaulting a viewers senses with loud noises.
They aren’t inherently bad, but most times, like with Blumhouse productions and the conjuring universe use it in a super cheap way.
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The Conjuring scare they show in this video is a great example of this. Great buildup ruined by loud noise and that stupid jump. Don't know why, but it made me laugh.
That’s why I cover my ears instead of my eyes during imminent jump scares because it’s always the loud noises that get me more than the actual “monster”
@@violetcrumble512 I am doing a degree in Audio Engineering, and in one of my classes where we focused on sound for films, we watched scenes of a horror movie in silence. This completely took away the "scariness" and was really interesting to see how much sound plays a role in a film being scary.
Conjuring 1 and 2 have pretty good jumpscares to be fair
In my opinion two of the best jump scares I’ve seen in a minute are 1. The lawnmower one from sinister and 2. The tall man from it follows. They both come out of nowhere and are effective at disturbing you even after the scene ends.
that lawnmower bit was great.
Uh was that Jason scene supposed to be a jump scare? I don’t think so, I’m not even sure it would fit most people definition. It’s more like a reveal. But seriously, what a rando scene to keep focusing on. Again. And again.
While I wish they brought up different examples of bad jumpscares, I’m pretty sure that it’s supposed to be a jumpscare. The reveal was when you first see him in the scene. He’s off screen again then the reappearance is triggered by sound cues.
But in my opinion some of the scares they counted as good weren’t very good. They may have been good the first few times they were ever done but now all of those scares are formulaic and played out . They don’t work like they used to anymore. Every single time you see a character in the bathroom in a horror movie your mind automatically goes “Oh here comes the mirror scare”. They gloss over some very good jump scares in favor of ones we’ve seen so many times. I think that’s why they used the Jason scene as their bad example, they used to many bad ones as good they didn’t have much to choose from.
@@ssharkbait Doesn't mean they weren't done better than Jason in Manhattan though. I agree, these jumpscares have probably gotten stale from over-reliance, but I'll bet people still jump when they see the genuine scare it's supposed to have, because they have a better setup.
@@chinclucker but its not the "horror creature" that scares people its the incredible loud obnoxious sound effect that is added.
i've watched several jump scare clips with and without the "jumpscare sound" and turns out they aren't scary at all.
@@Softpaw1996 Sound design is part of the experience of any movie. If you're not watching it with sound, you're not getting the full experience.
@@chinclucker sound design? hilarious. Adding a sound that has no relevance to a scene whatsover just for cheap startles is not sound design.
nice try though.
Well. The witch from the original "Blair Witch Project". You dont see her even once in the whole movie and she still scares the shit out of you. The useage of the found footage and lightening to minimal the viewers vision is fantastic. I remember a scene from the movie where the witch hunts the girl through the forest at night and you just see some grey movement on the black screen and hear her panicly breathing while running.
And the end of the movie is also just so nice done, brimging the imterviews from the start back in memories while not really explaining or pointing out anything specific, leaving the true ending for the perception of the audience
Many people like to crap on the Blair Witch Project but i love it. The part where they're camping and you hear kids in the distance getting closer and laughing and whatnot is soooo terrifying, i think of this every time i go camping in the wild xD And the ending is so well done! When they discover that old house and you're looking through one camera but hearing the sound of the other camera, that's just perfect!! Not to mention the creepy woman in town describing the witch, creepy!
If your movie has a monster, you've got three options:
1. Show it right away and let the audience adjust your it.
2. Show it at the end and hope it's actually scary to the viewer.
3. Never show it and let the audience imagine how horrifying it is.
Blair Witch nailed that third option, which I personally think is almost always the best way to go.
my personal favorite is always when they look into a telescope or just in the distance and see a figure very far off, glance away and once they look back, the figure is suddenly closer. I really like that anticipation in those scenes and there's a lot of space for it to be molded differently too
Like Davy Jones?
That scene in Insidious is one of my favorite jump scares ever. I love the way the back and forth is done. It's almost like hypnosis when you watch the pendulum go back and forth and then boom!
I don't think that the scene in friday the 13th is meant to be scary, its just Badass how you can't shake Jason off. Even if you are surounded by tens of people, he's just standing there and he's not leaving until you're dead.
I think is the most badass scene from all horror movies
There is a reason that scene of PartVIII has more views than all the other jumpscares they showed.
My favorite jump scare was that 2007 UA-cam video of the white car coming down that hill.
Once me and my mate were at his house after school, back in 2008, and some of his friends from far down south had come up. So, like the truly kind friends we were, we played it to them and said "if you look real close you can see the old granny driving the car". They got so so close to to the screen, like their nose was hitting the CRT screen, then... BAM!!! They jumped so far back and landed on the floor. Good times.
the most legendary jumpscare ever
That video traumatized me when I was 11 omg.
My big sis told me it was a transformer lel
Same!
Same
Bilbo baggins ... You know what scene I'm talking about.
HAAAAAAAGHH!!!
Stahp!😩
yeah, Now lets all feel old.
That was a great jumpscare lol
This comment triggered my fight or flight response
I think the scariest jump scare scene I have ever witnessed was probably the alien in Signs. Despite the movie being overall less scary than many others I've seen, that alien at the birthday party or the alien hand on the son's chest both made me literally die when I first saw them.
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS
same
Or the Alien's reflection in the TV set that they are moving.
Agree! That one fucked me up as a kid.
Signs is one of the only “spooky” movies I’ve watched, since I’m a wimp. I’m pretty sure the birthday party scene threw me into cardiac arrest for a few seconds.
Be honest
While watching that scene from INSIDIOUS, we never imagined that ghost to be appeared behind back. I mean she was just telling her dream she saw to others! Why the hell that red ghost wanted to come out at that time. Maybe he thought that it was his Showtime 😂
Yeah, and 90% of jumpscares happen during night or somewhere dark, but that happened during day, I never expected that
the suspense when the medium is describing the demon on the roof and the guy is drawing it was intense too! definitely thought there would be a jump scare there
Netflix's Haunting of Hill House car scene was my favorite jump scare
Yes. It was earned, though. Consistently unsettling scenes for a few episodes, courtesy of the atmosphere and hard-to-see ghosts. The viewer (and family) are already on edge, and that jump scare was placed perfectly.
Kate Siegel and Elizabeth Reaser had another half page of dialogue to get through when the jump scare happened so they were genuinely shocked too
@@MayenPineda 😮 did not know that !
That movie is not scary at all for me. But I enjoy the story
Yh followed by that bly manor rubbish. Massive disappointment
The scariest thing in horror/thriller movies is when there’s not music or sound at all
I agree. The most terrifying buildup before a jumpscare is silence
Well said! To me the scariest "jumpscare" I've ever seen was the closet scene in the American remake of the Ring bc I wasn't expecting at at all!! One moment it's just the main character and her sister talking, then no warning hard cuts to the closet door being thrown open showing one of the most unsettling visuals I've seen put to film; no breadbrumbs, no music sting, just a horrifying image w zero time to prepare yourself. 10/10!
“Hey, where did the sound g-“
Best you can do is mute the film and put Benny Hill music over it
@@DreamscapeSYN famous last words
the one from Mulholland Drive is just perfect: the character tells you in advance what he saw in his dream, you're following him slowly out of the restaurant, into the back ... and the soundscape gets tenser, darker ... you know what's about to happen but you still believe it won't ... and then there it is. No quick cut, no BOOH! moment, just a soul-crushing reveal in moderate speed accompanied by just drones and the darkest mood possible, even though it's daytime. Lynch at his best.
Omg YES, great example!!
Right on. I myself nearly had a heart attack when saw this for the first time
David Lynch is underrated at creating jump scares. There are a couple of BOB jumpscares in Twin Peaks too, which are exceptionally well done.
Hereditary and Ring (Japanese original) didn't have to rely on jump scares to be scary AF.
Yeah and I like to know more technical analysis on why they're so scar
Hereditary was crap though
I'm hard to scare but it gave me the chills for sure.
@@KHCoasterKid In Greta Thunberg voice: "How dare you?!"
@@ettena93 Because it's true? Barely anything happened for most of the movie! There are slow burns and then there's THAT! Totally boring, totally uninteresting, would not recommend. And yes, I understood it perfectly before you invoke the common rebuttal 🙄
bro im too scared to watch horror movies alone why am i here
Pfft
Let's watch one together then buddy
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"Jump-scares aren't scary at all; they're just startling." -- Jay Bauman
J Balvin?
@@yunggoon8763 Bro red letter media
Wow that is soo true now that I think about it
Tiny jay?
THERES A BOY IN THE WALL!
The Insidious jumpscare is awesome. I've never seen the movie or scene until now and even though I knew that a jumpscare was coming up as an example, it still got me. It has no place in a back and forth dialogue scene. And the way its just there with no buildup or shaky camera is uncanny. It seems obvious. "Jumpscare works when unexpected" but they start to build up to them and stray away from that.
Unpopular opinion: jump scares are the most effective if none of this stuff is there. It has to be when you’re calm. When literally nothing important is happening, and then BAM. Out of nowhere, no music, no build up, nothing. That’s why the Insidious jump scare was SO good. It came out of nowhere when we least expected it
Agreed
I mean you say this, but IT Chapter 1 Projector...that had me shaking after all that
Jumpscare and good in the same sentence are a nice way to display a lack of taste.
Only Insidous 1 is the only scary among all movies in that franchise.
Can't forget that memories. That red shit head, it terrifies me even it's not moving.
I disagree, if something happens out of nowhere it's more like a surprise, you "jump" just because of instincs, but when the build up exists the jumpscare hits really hard, there were times that I didn't even "jumped" that hard but in the inside my heart almost exploded (exaggerating ofc), that doesn't happem with jumpscares with no build up.
If I made a horror movie,
1. The houses won't have a basement
2. The house will be new and not so large
3. The characters will not be stupid and go to stupid areas
4. I will get 8% slime
good luck getting a scary movie then...
@@Nebulister Oh, like that is ever gonna happen lmao.
watch The Ring (2002)
5. The characters will be always remember to turn on the lamp when the night comes
@@scribblesen yes XD and always having the lights turned on at all time
A good jumpscare comes when you're not expecting it. A bad jumpscare comes where you are.
The end.
Exactly. Thats why its called a jumpscare.
Unless it's not a fake jump care
Not true. Watch mullholand drive
@@ToxicTurtleIsMad I'm hesitant to really call that a jumpscare though. The only characteristic it has in common is a loud noise.
To be fair, getting an expected jumpscare amplifies the power of an unexpected one later on, a balance of both creates a nice horror atmosphere.
This video calls to mine "Kairo | Anatomy Of The Scariest Scene Ever". The buildup up a scene is super important! And it seems that the more horror movies you watch, the more you realize how few effectively build that anticipation and anxiety.
For different reasons, Hereditary car scene is another great example. The director and actor skills can either help or hurt this. Great video!
Scary Bilbo in the fellowship is still the most effective jumpscare
Haunts me to this very day
Agreed
Damn you're right. Comes out of nowhere!!!
Oh yeah, that’s a good one. I watched that with my cousin when I was 10 and what made the whole thing worse was that at that exact moment the cat clawed it’s way up the couch and pounced on us
Wow, I must have suppressed that memory until now. Lol, I just remembered how terrifying that was.
The Haunting of Hill House's car scene is one of the best jump scare ever
Like none of this compared to that. That's the only time a jumpscare from a western movie or tv show is effective. So all of this is bs
That one got me so bad i was watching it laying down in my room fully dark, holy!what a scene🤣
The lack of music in the corn field scene from Signs, then you see the aliens leg move into the obscured corn, and at the same time a soft piano begins playing. The best jump scare ever.
I wasn't expecting to see someone here mentioning Signs. Yeah. First saw it as a child and that scene scarred me for life. Here I am in my mid 20's and I still get uneasy whenever Im standing next to a corn field. And I live in a rural area, so... fun. 🤣
Signs gets a lot of hate but I really love that movie.
You know what other scene is up there in Signs? The one when he is talking with his daughter in her room at night, and when he's about to leave, he look up to the window and the Alien is on the roof watching them.
I remember watching that as a child and, I'm in my 20s and I can't still look outside of a window by night.
Also... the scene of the Alien behind the bushes in Brazil.
@@Eris_Norregard i saw signs when i was young too and i was terrified for months after lol
The last good jump scare that got me (and my brother) was that bloody one in the haunting of hillhouse. It came outta nowhere, therefore nobody was expecting it and the scene was already tense with two sisters arguing, driving in the middle of nowhere at night! While watching it, we both screamed that our mom who was in her bedroom got really concerned and came out to check on us. 😂
It was indeed the best one, in recent years! 🙌
I’ve seen this mentioned a few times, and it was what I was thinking of. I almost backflipped off my couch.
A woman with a PhD in Horror , has a poster of Grease 2 . It makes sense , since it’s one of the scariest movies out there .
(Note: I actually like grease 2 as well )
I think the absence of music has more impact then scary music, like are you ever watching a movie and all throughout there’s music, then it’s gone but you don’t notice, and when you do there’s this sense of dread. Then all of the sudden there it is, the jump scare.
"It Follows" wasn't even a jump scare. Dude literally just walked up and it was still scary as hell!!
Most underrated one for me wasn’t really a jump scare. The movie “Signs” really got me as a kid and that scene where the alien is walking by at that kids bday party is terrifying. Something about it being VHS footage, just like in Sinister, gives it a real feel. That’s the gold
That scene spooked me
*Horror Movie:* [jumpscare intensifies]
*Me:* Meh! This movie isn't that scary.
*Horror Movie:* _Based on the true story_
*Me:* I fear no man, but that thing... it scares me.
So Veronica (2017) scare you
then you realize that's a lie too
Wait until you see:
*Romantic movie* : Based on a true story
@@loading2112 True horror.
Relatable
7:15 that "jump" scare from Midsommar was literal lol
I see what you did there
Then there's me, getting jumpscared when i shut the lights off
You are lucky I never get scared by horror films so there is no fun for me too watch horror movies before I used to be scared by everything in horror films
@@suhasshetty289 Good to know I'm not alone. However, the Haunting of- series' on Netflix come close, but I end up watching for the wonderful story.
@@migsestrella5188 I didnt like the haunting of bly manor, i found it annoying how the girl wouldn't shut up about things being perfectly splendid.
Recently the film 'Smile' had a really good fake-out jump scare when it cuts suddenly to a can of cat food being opened, but unlike many other fake-outs it's not accompanied by a cheesy "sting" sound, and it's a product of the film's already overbearingly tense atmosphere, which is I think the best way to do these types of fake scares.
great movie. if u watch the entire thing the scares get kind of tiring but take literally any individual jumpscare from that film and you can see how well executed they are
I really liked Smile! They were a bit heavy on the jumpscares but the scare with the creature pretending to be the therapist was the best one by far, great film!
the first half of that movie was great, the second half was kinda boring and the ending was pretty bad
A lot of people don’t know this but that “creature” in Mulholland Drive is played but the same actress who portrays Valak the nun. Her name is Bonnie Aarons and she’s grossly underrated! She deserves more acknowledgment in the horror community lol.
As a 7 year old at the time, the Jaws corpse head appearing in the hole in the boat, was terrifying. Gives me chills to this day, to remember the absolute terror that invoked. Yeah, my parents kinda sucked in that regard. I still have a phobia about swimming in water I cant see below the surface to this day. Eff Speilberg.
I watched the original Jaws when I was really young too!! Around 4 or 5 I think! My mum is the best but that was kind of a questionable choice 😂
Tall Man Scene in 'It Follows' is a genuinely perfect jumpscare which doesn't even need a cheap, loud noise
One jumpscare that always gets me is the ending of the lights out short film. It literally traumatized me between the scary visuals of the girl with white eyes and the sting whisper
Basically just a loud orchestral sound that damages your eardrums which causes the jumpscare
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I love the fact that The Conjuring, Insidious, Mama and It Follows were good examples of what or how good jumpscares are made
And the Insidious scene with the demon is the best jumpscare to date in my opinion.
Lipstick Demon face caught me off guard in ways my boxer brief had to be thrown in the trash
I love horror movies and watch many of them in theatres. Everytime there’s a jump scare the audience usually laugh after, because they’re fun. But that insidious jump scare with the red face was so unexpected and terrifying every one screamed and no one laughed. I’ve seen the movie many times now but still one of the scariest I’ve seen.
80s slashers aren’t made to be scary. They were made to be campy and gory. That’s why they are great. The narrator picking apart Jason Takes Manhattan is about as pointless as it would be to try to break down the jump scares in Wizard of Oz.
80s shitty slasher were made to be campy and gory.
@@FunkyRezable Are you just agreeing with me?
Exactly! That scene wasn’t meant to jump scare you or really scare you at all. It was more like a statement of “You’ll never get away” and is one of my favorites F13 scenes. He’s standing in the middle of Times Square purely focused on them and they feel it
wait until they learn that Friday The 13th is not a horror series
@@cantoffendanyone5786 they said shitty
I just rewatched the Conjuring yesterday, amazing actors and its still just as awesome as the first time I watched it!
Had the same feeling about the Conjuring 2
@@krypton1142 you smell bs? of course they're a load of bs.
@@krypton1142 all horror films are BS unless you're schizo
The Descent has maybe the best jump scare I've ever seen. They drop a hint that something is happening like 30 min prior to it actually slapping you. There was such a perfect balance between tension and distraction that I didn't even know how primed I was to be absolutely wrecked when the creature appeared. Nearly broke my damn screen I was so scared.
The descent is the first horror movie I ever remember watching. It's brilliant. I've never been more terrified of a film in my life
I feel like I disagree to some extent about jumpscares with no buildup; those are the ones that really terrify me because they catch me off guard. Using breadcrumbs and such lead me to believe that something is about to happen, but jumpscares that come out of nowhere are the most terrifying.
One of my favorite examples is in Midsommar when Dani goes into the bathroom, lights a match, and you see her sister in the mirror for a brief second. There's no buildup, no creepy music swell, no misdirection. It's unnerving and chilled me to the bone when I first saw it.
Of course the theory McKendry was using is absolutely correct; I don't doubt her on that. The Jaws jumpscare is living proof of that. But my personal favorite kind of jumpscare is the truly unexpected one.
For me, most of the time, no build up jumpscares just felt flat. Its like they're just so sudden that i didnt even get to react other than a "huh?!"
The reason why jumpscares with no buildup falls flat for most people is because the anticipation of something scary to happen heightens the scare effect significantly.
I understand that the breadcrumbs leading to a scare can give people a bit of a warning making them less effective for some people, but it's on the film crew to make it terrifying despite of this. Combating this trope while keeping the same formula is what makes a good horror movie in this day and age.
I think the jump scares without any build up that are being referred to in this video are those that are cheap, rely on loud noises, and take virtually no effort to direct. The one like you mentioned are incredibly rare and effective, but so rarely seen.
Yeah i totally agree with this tbh, the buildup can actually make it more predictable in a lot of cases. Some jumpscares are so good because they come completely out of nowhere and strike at the moment where the viewer thought he/she was ''safe''.
I feel like jumpscares with no buildup are kind of cheaty, though, because they almost solely rely on your involuntary reactions to being startled, while the buildup creates genuine terror (when done well) to accompany that reaction. The buildup doesn't always have to be super obvious, like the music changing or spooky noises or the characters getting progressively more terrified. The buildup can consist of subtly placed hints in the background or things you can't quite make out the details of but know they're there, for instance, and it's a lot scarier when the characters don't actually know they're about to get jumpscared because then you're alone with your terror.
best jumpscare: Spotify ads
FR im jamming out to a song and then all of a sudden "hey. its me. your skin."
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I think these scenes aren't even supposed to be jump scares... The
audience knows more than the protagonists after Jason is revealed, and
that's supposed to keep the tension of the scene high, because we don't
know if they will see him before it's too late.
That's a totally different tool to create tension.
Conjuring was corny as hell. That tacky zoom LOL I busted out laughing
Something out of one of those 1980's movies but instead they used it after the year 2000.. smh lol
Haters lol
wow youre so cool
@@zenka3018 right LMAO
The 2 main Conjuring movies are some of the best horror movies ever made. Especially some of the best made in our time. They're FAR from "corny." What are you even blabbering on about?
honestly the witch jumpscare in the conjouring still sends shivers down my spine, it was so unexpected and really creepy as that was the first time the audience got to see the witch, in my opinion it was brilliantly made and very effective, might even be one of my favourite jumpscares!
I really had this with "Hereditary". The only jumpscares are at the very beginning and the end of the movie, and the first one where you see Grandma in the corner when the lights are off really made me anxious for the upcoming 2 hours... yeesh
The jumpscare from the first Spider-Man movie when Norman Osborne says: "Last night I was" ...
Or the part when Peter Parker got bit and he’s taking a nap in his room on the floor and it shows skeletons and spiders being flashed on screen with that lady narrating yeah I’d go ahead and say that made me shit entire bricks I was so filthy as a child my teacher say I needed to stop watchin that movie but I say no I like the spidermans
@Gerry Buckets the director of those movies was also the creator of the evil dead franchise
Is that the very first Spiderman movie?
@@miakihayami4519 yes
@@miakihayami4519 Yes
Nothing scares me more than the ocean. That scene from jaws with the corpse literally made me say “NOPE” than I just kinda stopped living
For me, the scariest jumpscare ever was the haunting of hill house when they’re in the car and the mother jumps into the front seat, totally unexpected and absolutely horrifying.
I always bring that one up to people because it's so earned. She's not trying to scare them, she manifests from the backseat to stop her sisters from arguing. It's so good.