Shocking moments on film (that still make you jump)

[Jordacar]

I'll start things off with my favorite movie; the scene in Pulp Fiction where Marvin loses his head. What I wouldn't give to watch that scene with an audience.

 

[CFE]

"Halloween" -- Not really the scene, but Laurie's scream when Bob falls from the ceiling and dangles; it's deafening and quite nerve wracking.

"Alien" -- Dallas' Death

"Full Metal Jacket" -- Pyle's Suicide

"The Dark Knight" -- Brian's Noose-hung Body slamming into the Mayor's window (I'm over it now, but it took a few veiwings)

 

[Mister H.]

The mother's flashback in The Ring, when she recalls her daughter's face, and we see the girl's corpse in a closet....uggh. I don't scare easily, but I had to sleep with the light on the night I saw that film at the AMC (can't believe I just admitted that).

 

[KenK]

The mother's flashback in The Ring, when she recalls her daughter's face, and we see the girl's corpse in a closet....uggh. I don't scare easily, but I had to sleep with the light on the night I saw that film at the AMC (can't believe I just admitted that).

Still freaks the hell outta me!

 

[Jordacar]

In Aliens, when they find the lab with the facehuggers in the tanks, and one of them lurches at Burke.

 

[Max J Power]

I'll start things off with my favorite movie; the scene in Pulp Fiction where Marvin loses his head. What I wouldn't give to watch that scene with an audience.

This.

Alien. The chestbuster.

 

[Deaths Head II]

Exorcist III. The scene with the nurse in the hospital at night.

I was like "Wow, this scene is really bor--HOLY ****."

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

A scene that always makes me jump is in Drag Me To Hell, were just after the garage fight scene and Christine is cursed, she gets her fortune read, the fortune-tellers face turns and we see the Lamia's face jump towards the screen, NEVER fails to make me jump.

And I reall dont scare easy.

 

[Rick Random]

Exorcist III. The scene with the nurse in the hospital at night.

I was like "Wow, this scene is really bor--HOLY ****."

That scene is a mini masterpiece in terms of pure shock and horror.

There is another scene in the same movie where another asylum patient just appears in the background...crawling along the ceiling. Nightmarish.

The Exorcist III is definetly one of the most forboding, doom-ridden and downright disturbing horror movies you'll come across.

 

[Jordacar]

In No Country for Old Men, when Chigurh comes for Llewellyn at the hotel. The lights are off, Llewellyn has his shotgun at the ready, it's dead quiet except for Chigurh's footsteps, then BAM! the door lock shoots off and hits him in the chest.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Half -bodied terminator grabbing Sarah's leg.

 

[Vengeance]

Event Horizon, some shutter slams down I think, can't remember but another 1 or 2 in that film.http://film.gl

 

[danoyse]

Exorcist III. The scene with the nurse in the hospital at night.

I was like "Wow, this scene is really bor--HOLY ****."

I saw it in the movie theater, and it was sold out - I have never heard an audience shriek so loudly before or since.

Another scene that still makes me jump: the shark cage getting attacked in Jaws. I've only seen that on TV and I still jump when that thing rams the cage.

 

[That-Guy]

The scene in Monster where she gets raped. One of the most awful things I've ever seen.

 

[Kargo Warrior]

The throat slash in Cache.

I've never been speechless during a movie...this was the exception.

 

[[A]]

A recent one. I watched The Descent for the 2nd time last night and in one of the dream scenes, the main character stands in front of a window -- nothing happens -- then crash! A metal tube comes right into her head. I said f**k! (actually, some spanish equivalent)

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Meet Joe Black. If you've seen it, you know.

 

[Denny67]

The closet scene in Burn After Reading.

Not really a “jumping” moment but it sure surprised me and it still has a “dayuuuuum” effect.

 

[[A]]

^ yeah, I don't jump either

 

[Denny67]

^ yeah, I don't jump either

Oh I can jump but that did not do it and I can’t remember the last time a movie did it to me. I will say that my wife and I both looked at each other with jaws dropped like “no %#@&ing way!” when we first saw it though.

Any time you can evoke a response of that magnitude, it is the mark of a good movie.

 

[Doctor Jones]

"Do you remember that name? That name they had for me at MCU. What was it, Gordon?"

"Harvey... I don't --

"Say it."




"SAY IT!!!"


Man, I practically jumped out of my seat the first time I heard that. t: Eckhart sure can shout.

"You wouldn't."

"I WOULDN'T?!"

 

[[A]]

I did *jump* last night while watching the movie -- I didn't remember the scene -- it's good when that happens. You're rewatching a movie you like but don't remember everything about it, so there are still a few surprises to get..

Anyway, how about Billy Costigan, Jr..? That was a DAMN! moment in The Departed.

 

[Bim]

Exorcist III. The scene with the nurse in the hospital at night.

I was like "Wow, this scene is really bor--HOLY ****."

That's a good one, to this day my sister cant re-watch this movie cause of this scene

I have to say, the scene from the first Exorcist when Megan uses the crucifix and stabs it where the sun doesnt shine. That scene just hurts me every single time

 

[[A]]

I have to say, the scene from the first Exorcist when Megan uses the crucifix and stabs it where the sun doesnt shine. That scene just hurts me every single time

It does in a nudist beach..

 

[Doctor Jones]

I did *jump* last night while watching the movie -- I didn't remember the scene -- it's good when that happens. You're rewatching a movie you like but don't remember everything about it, so there are still a few surprises to get..

Anyway, how about Billy Costigan, Jr..? That was a DAMN! moment in The Departed.

Haha, yup. Although

Spoiler

I gasped the first time it happened. I didn't say "DAMN!" but it was definitely one of those moments where you didn't see coming. Just how Scorsese presnted it made it even more shocking. I mean no slo mo, no drama, just to the point. t: