First thing I thought of after reading the thread title.
And I'll never be able to forget the girl in the closet from The Ring.
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What Do You Consider The Best Jump Scare of All Time?
- Thread starter TheGreatDirector
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First thing I thought of after reading the thread title.
And I'll never be able to forget the girl in the closet from The Ring.
I think it's Mullholland Drive. I've searched for this topic when I was younger, and this was the answer that always came up. I read about it and knew everything that was gonna happen before I saw it the first time. I think it's the best because it works so well while not relying on anything you're used to (darkness, creepy environments, silence, etc). Even knowing about it because the movie tells you, and knowing because you've heard people talking about it, it still somehow works. I loved it.
Underappreciated. Especially with the immediate double whammy follow-up of Mr. Arnold's arm and the raptor popping up again.
Mulholland Drive
This. It's also one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema.
I feel like there was a really good one from Us, with Tim from Tim And Eric.
Maybe it was less of a jump and more of a scary scene.
Maybe it was less of a jump and more of a scary scene.
1917 explosion. Saw it in a Dolby theater and it scared the fucking shit out of me.
This is the first thing that came to mind horror movie wise.
Mulholland Drive scene is a great one too.
This is the first thing that came to mind horror movie wise.
Mulholland Drive scene is a great one too.
It's this, it can only be Mulholland Drive.
Mulholland Drive
Never in my life have I seen a better example of the "dream logic" in nightmares that can cause us to be utterly disturbed by something otherwise mundane in bright daylight. It also helps that the scene prior to it builds up the tension masterfully and the actual jumpscare is equal parts surreal and genuinely frightening.
It's unmatched IMO. Other films might imitate the buildup and frightening reveal but NONE capture the surreality of nightmares like this does.
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Sorry, added it. It's from a web comic. Bongcheon-Dong Ghost is the name I found for it.
2011 ėÆøģ¤ķ ė¦¬ ėØķø - [ENG ver.] Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - HORANG (ė“ģ²ėź·ģ ģė¬øķ)
[ENG ver.] Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - HORANG (ė“ģ²ėź·ģ ģė¬øķ)
This film was the main inspiration for The Babadook. Jennifer Kent is a big Mario Bava fan.Shock (1977)
woman and son's house haunted by spirit of abusive husband/father
There's also a few visual references to Black Sabbath.
Expertly done and actually reshot in a swimming pool to get the timing down perfectly.
lmao what a classic, to be honest every single jump scare just kills me, I'm to weak lol
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Either the Mulholland Drive one, or the one in The Last of Us Part II (SPOILERS -- don't ruin it for yourself if you plan to play this great game) at the gun crafting table.
TLoU2 is packed with top quality jump scares. It's a crazy good horror game, filled with surprises.
TLoU2 is packed with top quality jump scares. It's a crazy good horror game, filled with surprises.
Funny thing about that was that's a rip-off from the game it also completely ripped off, Alone In The Dark. That first room where the thing crashes through the window, definitely way freakier in RE though.
Came here to post this. The moment Dallas turns his flashlight in the opposite direction is when I nearly died. lol
Great film.
This! I was doing my second playthough and still jumped but what really got me was i had to stop and save. I thought it was just scripted but it happened AGAIN when i loaded the game i threw my controller in disgust with myself for getting scarred again lol.
One I'll always remember. My friends and I were playing Fatal Frame 1 as a group and it was my friend's turn to play. He opened a door, and the blinded ghost suddenly appears scaring the shit out of everyone, especially my friend. He actually called it in early and left the house because he couldn't handle the game anymore. The game really scared him, because he's superstitious and afraid of ghosts.
This isn't exactly a series known for very artful jumpscares and I'm not going to say it's the best or anything, but this is always what comes to mind when someone mentions jumpscares. One of the most fun moments I've had in a theater, everyone collectively going "when/what's going to happen..."
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Not to be that guy but I'm rarely caught off guard or scared by a movie but 2 instances in the Conjuring made me fucking jump out of my seat.
The blood test in The Thing.
Off the scales tension. You know its coming but unsure of when. Fucking masterful.
Ah come on, Sinister's great! Plus there was another jump scare in it well worth posting. The sheer build up to it and actual execution is just fantastic. It's the one thing I remember most about the film and what I think of when I think of jump scares that aren't Molhunand Drive. (Feel free to ignore the rest of the video, just stop after the jump scare)
I forgot about this. It's def this.
2011 ėÆøģ¤ķ ė¦¬ ėØķø - [ENG ver.] Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - HORANG (ė“ģ²ėź·ģ ģė¬øķ)
[ENG ver.] Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - HORANG (ė“ģ²ėź·ģ ģė¬øķ)
After being freaked out by this, I did my best to send it to everyone I knew.
The thing I appreciate about The Exorcist III's jump scare is that after the slow build up to that sudden jump scare there is this primal expectation of a "pay off" that I think because it cuts away so quickly it's like our brain fills in the gap. Almost like it's a feeling. I actually think if they went and snipped the nurse's neck in the scene it wouldn't have worked as well. It's counterintuitive.
This wardrobe scene sealed the deal for me in getting hooked on this series.
And they do it again and it works again because there's about 10 hours of gameplay between the two occurences, you've taken down Man-bat and that time it's the Joker š¤£
