Most effective/favorite jump scare?

[fart_mike]

i was thinking about mine today at work and i'd like to hear your thoughts...mine is leatherface jumping out from the darkness of K-OKLA's record room in texas chainsaw 2...saw it in 35mm at a midnight movie show last year and the audience shit themselves...

[Kim Bruun]

Dead & Buried: When the supposed dead burn victim suddenly screams.

I remember watching it in my mid 20's - I was startled so badly that I screamed an A natural above soprano high C (I checked the piano), which is pretty high considering that I am a dude.

[baggio]

Originally Posted by fart_mike

i was thinking about mine today at work and i'd like to hear your thoughts...mine is leatherface jumping out from the darkness of K-OKLA's record room in texas chainsaw 2...saw it in 35mm at a midnight movie show last year and the audience shit themselves...

No joke, when I first read the title thread, I was thinking the same scene.

It's a very effective scene. That scene in the The Exorcist III is pretty good too. The one with the nurse leaving the room, down the hall shot.

Another one that got me good was during the "blood testing" scene in The Thing (1982)

[King Diamond]

Originally Posted by fart_mike

i was thinking about mine today at work and i'd like to hear your thoughts...mine is leatherface jumping out from the darkness of K-OKLA's record room in texas chainsaw 2...saw it in 35mm at a midnight movie show last year and the audience shit themselves...

I agree with you. Jump scares almost never work on me; one of the only exceptions is the aforementioned scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another jump scare that's anywhere near as effective. I don't know why it works so well, but it was expertly done.

[evildeadfan123]

I have to go with the cat jumping in through the window in Friday the 13th Part 2, right before Alice gets stabbed in the head with a Ice Pick. I screamed, my mother screamed, and so did at least half of the audience when we saw it when it was originally at the movie theater in 1981.

[SaviniFan]

Originally Posted by baggio

That scene in the The Exorcist III is pretty good too. The one with the nurse leaving the room, down the hall shot.

^This. One of the biggest jump scares I have ever seen in a film. It is set up flawlessly to make you need a clean pair of underwear. It helps that the rest of the film is quite excellent too with the exception of the studio forced ending.

[Anthropophagus]

Originally Posted by SaviniFan

^This. One of the biggest jump scares I have ever seen in a film. It is set up flawlessly to make you need a clean pair of underwear. It helps that the rest of the film is quite excellent too with the exception of the studio forced ending.

Exorcist III for me too, as a kid though the severed head in JAWS messed me up pretty good.

[Workshed]

It's an oldie, but the "bus scene" jump scare in Cat People (1942) is still very effective and a great example of how to use the tactic well.

[Mutilated Prey]

Originally Posted by Kim Bruun

I am a dude.

Glad you cleared that up because gotta admit I always assumed you were a chick based on your name and avatar

[Kim Bruun]

Originally Posted by Mutilated Prey

Glad you cleared that up because gotta admit I always assumed you were a chick based on your name and avatar

Well, in Denmark, Kim is a male name. And you've probably already guessed that that avatar isn't me.

[ronnie21]

the one in halloween 2 1981 when myers jumps up at alice in the beginning still works..

[Mutilated Prey]

Originally Posted by Kim Bruun

And you've probably already guessed that that avatar isn't me.

[Kim Bruun]

Originally Posted by ronnie21

the one in halloween 2 1981 when myers jumps up at alice in the beginning still works..

Yeah, that one gets to me too. Good one.

[baggio]

How about the film Carrie. The cemetery scene.

[Workshed]

Originally Posted by Kim Bruun

Well, in Denmark, Kim is a male name. And you've probably already guessed that that avatar isn't me.

Kim Bruun, please ignore all my previous PMs, thanks.