I'm a scary chicken and can't handle this at all, so I want to desensitize myself.
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Give me the hardest of hard jumpscare flicks
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Sinister has some good ones
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Here’s a better version with the full scene:
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Thanks that got me
Oh frick
Good I shall watch it now.
I watched the Ring the other day and repeated the picrel scene to take it all in, I remember how I shat my pants the first time I saw this
>Good I shall watch it now.
enjoy anon
Best detail on this one, besides the extremely long buildup, is the lack of telegraphing on the actual jumpscare; it comes out of a part of the frame that's been marked as "safe" by her exiting that door. Compare to the most typical "character turns around into jumpscare" scene and how blatantly telegraphed it is just by the framing.
Exorcist III is a really solid movie. Too bad about the studio meddling and reshoots.
Is this a joke?
No? It’s an example of a very effective scare. Exorcist III is worth a watch.
That shit was the dumbest jumpscare I have seen in my life and makes the buildup ridiculous. 2009 youtube tier.
Okay, well keep in mind that you’re watching it outside the context of the full film.
Dude looked like scream. He just walked after her with a knife covered in fabric. Who gives a shit. Would have been scarier from her perspective.
Okay, post a jumpscare that you like then.
Those were medical shears, blind anon.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The Descent
The Grudge (American version) is the most relentless jumpscare movie that throws all rules about "safe" scenes out the window. The Japanese series is more brutal, but this was a rare case of Hollywood budget actually succeeding in making a film scarier (plus they kept the original director who filmed it back-to-back with the first theatrical Japanese entry).
Also seconding .
>rules about "safe" scenes
elaborate. i have not heard of this before and am interested
Not really any hard and fast guidelines, but when you watch enough horror movies you recognize patterns. Generally it'll be pretty clear whether you're at risk of a jumpscare or not based on what's going on in a scene, like if there are a lot of characters or if the music cuts out or builds up a certain way. On rare occasion a movie will slip in a scare without telegraphing to you that it's about to come up, and The Grudge pulls this off better than just about any other.
Try Banshee Chapter. It's not really good but it hits the jumpscare button so hard you'll cease caring before the end.
I'll second this
Maybe the best jumpscare film I've ever seen
I'm halfway in this, I don't know why but it's not scaring me. Yes there are jumpscares but it's not working on me.
One of the best
prepare yourself
Heart skipped a beat! Flinched so hard I fell out my chair! Primal fear response activated!
>I'm wet.
The Haunting In Connecticut 1 and 2 are basically jumpscare barrages.
Lrge Marge
Here you go
doesn’t get much better than this one
I think it doesn't work because you already know it's to make you scare. Just watching this with the context of a lynch movie you would never have expected this.
The Woman in Black had a few good ones
Source of a somewhat well known webm on Cinemaphile
Lake Mungo has the best jumpscare in history and yes I will die on this hill.
That movie unnerved me but the jumpscare didn't make me jump. I feel like I have missed out on a cultural phenomenon or something
Same with this scene. Did not make me jump at all. The ending of this movie where the old people start attacking the main girl out of nowhere made me jump though
what she sees when you're on top of her
Insidious. It’s not the creepiest, but it intentionally breaks established rules of horror and hits you with the jumpscares when you aren’t expecting them.
I've watched all but the last one by now and while they're generally enjoyable I really miss the 70's throwback flair that the first movie had. The others blend in with any other 2010's horror series, but the first felt like a modern expansion on the groundwork of classic haunted house films not to mention that great trippy lighting and set design behind the red door at the end.
If we're gonna talk about all time great jumpscares even in movies that don't have a lot, I think Evil Dead 2 being grabbed by the reflection in the mirror got me the hardest. Honorable mention to Pulse, not just for the scene with the creepy chick that people like to hype up, but particularly for the girl jumping off the building in the background. That had to be one of the most well executed special effects in horror movie history but I never see it mentioned and I had to buy another edition of the movie just to see the featurette on how they did it.
Mulholland Drive, it’s not really a horror movie but it has the best executed jump scare.
The beginning of The Believers (1987)