Your favorite "jump scenes"

[Dark Jezter]

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.

Yep, I jumped during that scene too. In fact, I'll bet that at least half the theater jumped at that scene.

Another scene that made me jump was from the Spider-Man movie, when Mary Jane wakes up on top of the bridge and almost steps off. Well, I don't know if it made me jump so much as it made my stomach lurch, like when an elevator starts moving.

 

[Hypersmurf]

There's a quote from Timothy Zahn's novel Blackcollar: The Backlash Mission: "Most people, Mordecai had learned long ago, didn't expect to be attacked while they were still talking..."

And I found that to be true in Deep Blue Sea, when Samuel L Jackson gets chomped in mid-sentence...

-Hyp.

 

[diaglo]

JAWS...the head scene.

 

[Qlippoth]

One Halloween, a group of my friends and I went to a screening of the then-just-released director's cut of The Exorcist. I'd seen the movie multiple times before, but my friend Toby hadn't.

During the "exorcism" scenes, there's one point where the possessed girl rears up behind the two priests and wallops one in the back of the head.

Toby jumped from a sitting position to standing with his arms ready for incoming attack.

 

[Datt]

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

Most recent movie I can recall is the scene where the alien's fingers shoot out from under the door in Signs.

Those are two of mine. Sings was a really good movie. It had a few good jump parts as did Sixth Sense.

 

[Elemental]

'The Others', in the children's bedroom, when the little girl is scaring her brother with talk of ghosts and monsters....and then we hear these footsteps suddenly running across the floor. That gave me a very nasty flashback to when I was seven.

 

[Taelorn76]

Almost the entire theater I was at, including some rather large and manly men jumped WAY in the air for that scene. One guy even let out a panicked and squeaky, "damn."

That might have been me.

I was totally expecting something like to happen, and understanding what the actors were actually saying confirmed my suspicions, I think I even leaned over to my date and said something is going to happen, then proceeded to jump higher than her.

 

[Chain Lightning]

The older I get, the more immune I get to these 'jump' scenes. Its too bad, I love a good scare.

The only scene that seemed to make me jump a bit was a movie I only saw once. Wasn't even that good of a movie either ... if I recall. Actually I can't seem to recall much of it. I just remember that one scene was kinda cool and creepy. It was from Exorcist III, when a Nun with scissors (I think) attacks out of no where. You guys know what scene I'm talking about? Its been so long since I saw it. It was just once and back when it was first in theatres.

Some good ones that didnt' make me jump but still gave me chills, and that were recent, were:

-"Signs" : watching the reveal of the alien in the birthday video
-"The Eye" : Hong Kong movie, not very scary, but there's this scene in an elevator that is real creepy.
-"Ringu" : the original "The Ring", the original reveal of the girl in the TV was much creepier I thought....

Those were pretty creepy.

 

[KenM]

Not really a jump scene, but in Fight Club when they tell you whats really going on, its llike: WHOA HOLY CRAP.

 

[milotha]

Some other movies with good jump scenes.

The Shining- The scene where Danny encounters the twins.
The Silence of the Lambs- There's a scene with Hannibal Lector that startled me.
The Thing- The scene where the dog explodes really got me when I was a kid