Your favorite "jump scenes"

[Dark Jezter]

What is your favorite "jump scene" in a movie that you've seen?

For me, it was the scene in Seven when the man who was apparantly dead suddenly begins coughing loudly as a police officer is examining him.

I just about jumped out of my skin the first time I saw that scene.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Alien - gut buster

 

[Kai Lord]

The only time I've ever really jumped in a movie theater seat was toward the end of Jurassic Park when the girl is hanging out of the vent and the velociraptor leaps up from the floor and almost catches her. Totally caught me off guard.

 

[Hand of Evil]

There were a number from JAWS.

 

[Ghostwind]

Hmmm... Several movies have a claim on making me jump, but probably the most memorable was the eyeless head popping out in Jaws. Most recent movie I can recall is the scene where the alien's fingers shoot out from under the door in Signs. Even though I knew it was coming, I still reacted.

 

[WayneLigon]

Hmmm... Several movies have a claim on making me jump, but probably the most memorable was the eyeless head popping out in Jaws.

That's the only scene that's ever 'got' me. I'm sitting there, popcorn at the side and a huge giant Coke held between my knees. The eyeless head pops out, I jerk back.. and my knees meet. I sit breathless in a puddle of Coke for the rest of the film. Apparently I didn't splatter anyone else

There have been several several other scenes that have made me jump, cringe, whatever, but nothing else ever 'got' me like that one.

 

[Klaus]

Signs, when Joaquin Phoenix is watching the news on an alien sighting during a birthday party in Brazil!

Sixth Sense, when Haley Osment walks up to a lady he thinks is his mom, and it isn't!

 

[G.A. Donis]

There were a number from JAWS.

"Bruce" popping up out of the water while Chief Brody was chumming the water. I jumped and swallowed my gum! I was 8yrs old and couldn't go into a swimming pool for months without looking for sharks

 

[Ghostwind]

Another scene that deeply affected my sister was from Poltergeist. It involves the scene where the scientist has just watched the steak crawl across the counter and then drops the leg of chicken he had in his mouth so it hits the floor. When he looks down at it, you see it is covered in maggots.

It was four years before my sister was willing to eat chicken again after she saw the movie at the theaters...

 

[NiTessine]

Sixth Sense, when Haley Osment walks up to a lady he thinks is his mom, and it isn't!

That one got me, too. So did the eyeless head in Jaws.

Interesting. I just realised it's been four years since I've watched a horror film.