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What Do You Consider The Best Jump Scare of All Time?
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Hereditary has a couple of good ones.
One near the end is an expert piece of misdirection.
Very hard to gif though as it doesn't work without the setup.
It involves something out of focus clinging to a ceiling, a naked leering cultist and something rushing from an unexpected direction.
If you've seen the movie you probably know what I'm talking about.
One near the end is an expert piece of misdirection.
Very hard to gif though as it doesn't work without the setup.
It involves something out of focus clinging to a ceiling, a naked leering cultist and something rushing from an unexpected direction.
If you've seen the movie you probably know what I'm talking about.
Hill House had one that legit made me and my husband scream 😂
It's this one. Shit scared me so badly I screamed and punched my laptop so hard I had to replace the fans 🤣
Nothing has ever scared me like that. Holy...
This is a classic one, from The Haunting, an earlier adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House.
I first watched it a couple of years ago when I was doing one of those horror movie a day challenges for October. This bit really made me jump, coming right after a very tense scene that has just been defused.
It's a really good film in general.
I first watched it a couple of years ago when I was doing one of those horror movie a day challenges for October. This bit really made me jump, coming right after a very tense scene that has just been defused.
It's a really good film in general.
"God! Whose hand was I holding?"
For me it's The Ring (2002) when Samara teleports forward. I also remember a scene from Hill House where the lady with the broken neck drops down from the roof in a corridor - that one caught me completly off guard.
I mean, if you watch it knowing it ends in a jump scare, it has no power. And that's true of every single clip in this thread.
That's a pretty good trailer snippet. Enough to make a viewer go "wtf!"without giving away the full nature of it.
I think the best/one genious jumpscare I can think of is from the original Resident Evil 2 when the Tyrant bursts through the wall.
In a way it's meta with the jumpscares that have happened before in the series. Pretty much all of them have something to do with windows like the dogs in RE1, the zombie hands bursting through the barred windows in RE2 and a licker jumping through the interrigation room glass. That kind of stuff.
So basically every jumpscare thus far in RE has happened in places where it makes sense for some monster to burst through and it conditions you in a way. Then we are introduced to the Tyrant during scenario B. After the first encounter they show you a short cutscene where the defeated monster rises back up and is after you again...
...and then you don't see him for a long time. It feels like 1/3rd of the game goes by with no sign of him. It's like they are deliberately building up this one scare for hours. You kinda start to even forget about the threat. And when they do bring him back, it's in the most surpring location possible.
You are in a small room with no windows and the only entryway is the door. There is absolutely nothing that could prepare you for a jumpscare in this empthy room. You do this easy puzzle in there in almost autopilot to collect a key item and prepare to leave... BAM! The monster just annihilates a fuckin wall. A pre-rendered backround wall at that. It's like they broke every rule the previous scares abided to. And it works so fuckin well. And after that long buildup and payoff for the scare they finally let the monster be relentless and at your heels constantly until the very end. Just great.
In a way it's meta with the jumpscares that have happened before in the series. Pretty much all of them have something to do with windows like the dogs in RE1, the zombie hands bursting through the barred windows in RE2 and a licker jumping through the interrigation room glass. That kind of stuff.
So basically every jumpscare thus far in RE has happened in places where it makes sense for some monster to burst through and it conditions you in a way. Then we are introduced to the Tyrant during scenario B. After the first encounter they show you a short cutscene where the defeated monster rises back up and is after you again...
...and then you don't see him for a long time. It feels like 1/3rd of the game goes by with no sign of him. It's like they are deliberately building up this one scare for hours. You kinda start to even forget about the threat. And when they do bring him back, it's in the most surpring location possible.
You are in a small room with no windows and the only entryway is the door. There is absolutely nothing that could prepare you for a jumpscare in this empthy room. You do this easy puzzle in there in almost autopilot to collect a key item and prepare to leave... BAM! The monster just annihilates a fuckin wall. A pre-rendered backround wall at that. It's like they broke every rule the previous scares abided to. And it works so fuckin well. And after that long buildup and payoff for the scare they finally let the monster be relentless and at your heels constantly until the very end. Just great.
But there's clips in this thread that still scare me, like Haunting of Hill House.
yeah a bunch get me. Screamers I seek out get me too. I think the mulholland one just comes off funny because of the lighting and benign expression. It's like spookily tapping someone on the shoulder and they turn around smiling with sort of a dirty face. I do get that it's intense in context.
Era probably hates The Conjuring, but it has several great creepy scenes and jump scares, including that one.
Am I the only asshole in here who just didn't react to the Mulholland Drive scene with anything but mild amusement?? I didn't know it existed before watching but I guess it's worth pointing out I just wasn't that into the movie.
This is a good one but I actually think the cultists were scarier in that scene than the jump scare moment.
This is a good one but I actually think the cultists were scarier in that scene than the jump scare moment.
Someone remind me what this is. I'm too much of a babby. A comic with a jump scare?
2011 미스테리 단편 - [ENG ver.] Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - HORANG (봉천동귀신 영문판)
[ENG ver.] Bongcheon-Dong Ghost - HORANG (봉천동귀신 영문판)comic.naver.com
This isn't a jump scare though, at least for me. It's just super freaky.
Mulholland Drive
The speed at which it happens is a bit too slow imo.
thats why i love REC so much. The last third of that movie was brilliant, especially the scenes in the penthouse. Very few jump scares used. Such a shame I didnt like the sequel as much
REC fans unite! It's honestly one of my favorite horror films, and one of the very best in the found-footage genre.
Definitely! I have nothing but praise for REC. REC is my found footage measuring stick. Not many come close.
I do like Creep 1/2, Hell house 1 and 3, Blair witch, Lake mungo (if this counts)
My vote goes to Batman Arkham Knight with the Man-Bat jump scare. It's just so out of the blue for a game that doesn't seem like it would throw such a scare at you. That's why it is so perfect—you are in the middle of gameplay and then literally shit your pants.
Fuck, this image gives me chills. What a masterful scene.
Mulholland Drive
May not qualify as the greatest, but I still think that Dario Argento's Deep Red has one of the greatest "0-to-what the fuck" scares in cinema.
Holy shit, yes. I've never met another person who has seen it. A truly unsettling masterpiece of Australian cinema.
Runner up for me is tall man from It Follows
This is what I was going to post.
The shutter door opening at the start of EVent Horizon gets me everytime even when I know it is coming.
Takes about 40seconds to get to the scene but the build up is what makes it for me.
Takes about 40seconds to get to the scene but the build up is what makes it for me.
The one I won't forget is Eternal Darkness and the bathtub. Since the whole game is built on this fucked up feeling that something is wrong with not just the game but reality, the jump scene came at exactly the point where I started questioning my sanity.
Turned my GameCube off, put all the lights on and went to sit in the kitchen with a glass of water.
Turned my GameCube off, put all the lights on and went to sit in the kitchen with a glass of water.
I don't think people are explaining this with justice. What makes this jump scare effective is the way it's done. It's not a typical animation. The comic is arranged so all of the panels are loaded vertically and you scroll down through them. When you reach a certain point in the scroll bar the comic suddenly starts scrolling by itself rapidly and as the panels whip by they create the animation.
You nailed it. A good jump scare creates future tension in the rest of the movie (or game).
Nowadays, they probably would of cgi'd this and it wouldn't of worked as well, happened with the Amityville horror the remake, original was better despite cheapish special effects.Shock (1977)
woman and son's house haunted by spirit of abusive husband/father
The ghost in the library in Ghostbusters caught me out badly as a kid! Screamed the house down, I was only about 5. it's one of my earliest memories of watching films.
Haven't read the thread but let me be the seventh person to say the moment the orc things from The Descent show up
The blood test in The Thing.
My favorite from movies
In games I really loved the one in BioShock Infinite...
Top 3 Scary Moments - Bioshock Infinite
Top 3 Scariest Moments in Bioshock Infinite. Damn you unnecessary yet unavoidable jump-scares!RobiePAX's Steam Profile - http://steamcommunity.com/id/RobiePAX
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.. and this one from Condemned Criminal Origins
Condemned scariest moment!
The scariest moment of Condemned ^^ Added: August 31, 2007, 05:05 PM
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The over saturated colors in this gif made me wish there was a Wes Anderson horror film.
The ghost in the library in Ghostbusters caught me out badly as a kid! Screamed the house down, I was only about 5. it's one of my earliest memories of watching films.
Yesssss. I was five when Ghostbusters was released on VHS and this scene terrified me, but I loved the rest of the film. My parents rented it for me several times after that, and so when it got to the library part I would leave the living room and go sit on the steps and have my mom or dad yell for me once the scene was over.
