Jump out of your seat moments

MooseJam

So just back from seeing drag me to hell, enjoyable enough quite funny but it had at least 5 of those jump out of your seat moments, you know the ones it's all quiet and then out of nowhere a screaming monster shoots out at you, those kind of things, does this still work on people as in make you jump because they have absolutely zero effect on me, maybe the first film I ever saw with the effect yeah it was a surprise and made you jump but with horror films these days you just expect it at any minute so it's lost any effect, or has it ? are there still people out there going to see these type films and actually jumping ?

niallon

Too many films rely on jump scares now, The Grudge comes to mind. Jump scares and fine but only work during the viewing, they don't follow you home! Gone are the truly scary films, now there's just poppy scare flicks. As regards good jumps though, Ben Gardner's head in Jaws, works every time and it's the only one that does!

CyberWaste

I much prefer films that are done where its silent and you cant see anything but noises, leaves the rest to your imagination, much more scary I think, that being said, I haven't been genuinely scared by a film since probably 28 days later.

leeroybrown

For me it has to be the chestburster scene with John Hurt in Alien. It was shot in a single take where the actors weren't 100% sure of what was going to happen - even they got a genuine fright. I can still remember when I first saw it many years ago. It's probably my favourite single cinematic scene.

mike65

There was a moment in a rubbish enough flick called Silent Scream (1980) where a camera tracks through a crawlspace towards a wooden grill you just knew something was going to happen and the obvious did happen but I still jumped!

Fringe

Psycho! 2 scenes come to mind. Firstly, the shower scene. Then the dead body scene. That was freaky.

tvnutz

Some scenes like the ones you explained just use sound to get people to jump. For example in the new star trek movie where he is one the ice planet and the bear thing appears,it lets out a growl that i jumped. Only because the sound was so loud. You make it that loud and anyone will jump,it doesn't mean it was scary or shocking,just loud.

One movie i nearly jumped out of my seat was Serenity

when wash gets impaled out of nowhere,it was just so shocking and for a main character to be just gone like that was amazing. That is how it should be done.

tommyboy2222

The head popping out of the hole in the boat in Jaws!!

flanree

yer woman at the start of Ghostbusters

BopNiblets

Feckin raptors in Jurassic Park got me.

Also the guy slamming into the window in TDK.
"BAH! Jesus!"

Richard Dower

Nothing scares me anymore.

sxt

MooseJam wrote: »

So just back from seeing drag me to hell, enjoyable enough quite funny but it had at least 5 of those jump out of your seat moments, you know the ones it's all quiet and then out of nowhere a screaming monster shoots out at you, those kind of things, does this still work on people as in make you jump because they have absolutely zero effect on me, maybe the first film I ever saw with the effect yeah it was a surprise and made you jump but with horror films these days you just expect it at any minute so it's lost any effect, or has it ? are there still people out there going to see these type films and actually jumping ?

Jumped out of my seat 5 times even though i knew something was building up to happen , If the cinema you see it in has the audio up loud ,plus those shocking "coming at you" visuals ,don't make you jump i don't know what will lol. This is only film i have ever seen that made me jump by the way!

krudler

Exorcist III still has one of the best jumpy moments ever, view it here, out of context but still fantastic, and its a really underrated movie too, one of the best horror sequels ever after the dire 2nd one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY

Crank up the sound and enjoy

ryoishin

In the remake of the omen in the grave yard where the dog jumps out. But i had just finished snogging and was turning back around to face the screen and BAM I screamed like a little girl!

Ann22

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

The head popping out of the hole in the boat in Jaws!!

Niallon just said the same thing:). I jump every time I see that.. I love Jaws, best film ever. I also love the 'we're gonna need a bigger boat' bit.

tferg20

Event horizon, the full movie.

eagle eye

The hand from the grave in Carrie. And Freddy got me once or twice the first time I seen Nightmare in Elm Street.

seanybiker

Richard Dower wrote: »

Nothing scares me anymore.

Boo




Did it work?

Boo . Just incase.

Professey Chin

MooseJam wrote: »

So just back from seeing drag me to hell, enjoyable enough quite funny but it had at least 5 of those jump out of your seat moments, you know the ones it's all quiet and then out of nowhere a screaming monster shoots out at you, those kind of things, does this still work on people as in make you jump because they have absolutely zero effect on me, maybe the first film I ever saw with the effect yeah it was a surprise and made you jump but with horror films these days you just expect it at any minute so it's lost any effect, or has it ? are there still people out there going to see these type films and actually jumping ?

I love my horrors but ive always been a pretty jumpy person when it comes to films so I hit the fcukin ceiling repeatedly watching it

foxyboxer

From Alien;
Jump out of your seat moments
The facehugger lurching at Kane from the egg.
In the air shafts, Dallas turns his flashlight to reveal the Alien.
In the shuttle when the Aliens hand springs out.