# movie moments that made you jump (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018 "2006-11-03T21:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/21 "2006-11-04T10:27:39Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] **Two Towers** , when Shelob drops down from the roof (ceiling?) of the cave. [/QUOTE] I think in the movie they didn’t have her until TRORK. But in the books she made her appearance in TTT. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/22 "2006-11-04T10:28:56Z")
That’s what I get for using just letters. :smack: That should have been TROTK. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/23 "2006-11-04T10:38:30Z")
Yeah, you’re right. ROTK is what I call it, BTW. LOLWTFBBQ. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/24 "2006-11-04T11:13:20Z")
[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac] When Wash was killed by the Reavers, [/QUOTE] Not to nitpick, but didn’t he die in the crash at the end rather than be killed by the Reavers? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/25 "2006-11-04T11:18:40Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Not to nitpick, but didn’t he die in the crash at the end rather than be killed by the Reavers? [/QUOTE] Nope; everyone lived through the crash landing, then Wash took a big Reaver harpoon to the chest. ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/26 "2006-11-04T11:20:18Z")
I’m going to try an’ be less obvious and go with the scene in the car during **The Forgotten**. Julianne Moore and Dominic West are driving along having a heated conversation when suddenly – BAM! They get slammed into. I swear I almost shrieked at that part. Pity everything else about the film was crap. [QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] And hey… I just found it on [YouTube](http://youtube.com/watch?v=GbP-12GTq5Y&mode=related&search=). With Japanese subtitles no less. Still makes me want to sit with my back flush against the wall! [/QUOTE] Wow. That’s one one of the most frightening things I’ve ever seen. It makes me think back to when I was a child and that moment between turning off my bedroom light and getting into bed when I was sure that some_thing_ was right behind me in the darkness. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/27 "2006-11-04T14:49:52Z")
Don’t Look Now, at the end, when Donald Sutherland sees the face of the figure in the red coat- creepy as hell. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/28 "2006-11-04T15:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=sneezy5660] . I was going to post that very scene! I knew it was coming, but when it happened, I screamed like a little girl. I was positive I had awakened the entire family, but they slept through it! [/QUOTE] It was the original killer beaten but wont stay dead movie. It was original then ,but cliche now. Hepburn nd Arkin give more pizazz too. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/29 "2006-11-04T15:47:05Z")
For me the two most jump inducing scenes I’ve ever seen were the scene in Pet Sematary when Rachel’s sister Zelda pops up on screen in all her spinal meningitis glory. The second is from the much panned Event Horizon. Right in the beginning there’s a part when they’re exploring the lost ship and a hand comes out of nowhere and grabs the facemask of one of the guys. Turns out just to be a glove floating around in zero gravity, but damn it still makes me jump. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/30 "2006-11-05T01:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] **Carrie** (anyone who’s seen Carrie will know the moment. If you haven’t seen Carrie no way am I going to be the one to spoil it for you.) [/QUOTE] I can think of two: The arm reaching up from the grave, naturally. HUGE jump moment. But there’s another one a few minutes earlier: when Carrie goes into the bathroom to wash the blood off. She turns on the light, and we see her mother standing, still and silent, behind the door, just staring straight ahead. And Carrie doesn’t see her. ACK! My big jump: **Audition**. When he first calls her at her apartment. She, wasted from fatigue and hunger, slowly looks up. And she smiles. AND THEN THE HORRIBLE BAG MOVES!!! ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/31 "2006-11-05T06:01:13Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] **Se7en** , when the “sloth” guy suddenly sits up in his bed, gasping and choking, and people start screaming, “He’s alive!!” :eek: [/QUOTE] Funny you should mention that. Saw it in the theater, and I jumped, sure. But what really made me freak was when, directly after sloth guy sat up, the stranger in the seat in front of me whipped around in his seat and screamed “OHMYFUCKINGGODDIDYOUSEETHAT?!?!?” right at me. It was like the movie was suddenly, unexpectedly, in 3D. Scared the living piss out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/32 "2006-11-05T13:47:41Z")
**The Shining** , when the kid pedals his Big Wheel around the corner and - BAM - the two creepy girls are standing there. **Friday The 13th** - the lake scene. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/33 "2006-11-05T14:12:15Z")
There are a lot of scary scenes in the movie **The Changeling.** Some are hokey, some are truly spooky. The one that made me jump: George C. Scott is standing in front of his future home. Up the third floor, there is a sudden \>pop\< as a small window bursts into pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/34 "2006-11-05T14:13:19Z")
Two of the top of my head: The previously mentioned **se7en** sloth guy. Then in **We Were Soldiers** , where one guy’s horribly burned legs were degloved when someone tried to pull him to safety. Totally made me scream, that one. I had to pause the dvd to calm down & quit sobbing. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/35 "2006-11-05T15:26:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] The second is from the much panned Event Horizon. Right in the beginning there’s a part when they’re exploring the lost ship and a hand comes out of nowhere and grabs the facemask of one of the guys. Turns out just to be a glove floating around in zero gravity, but damn it still makes me jump. [/QUOTE] I jumped a mile during _Event Horizon_, when the two female crew members are exploring the bridge in near-dark. A sudden flash lights the room, revealing blood and gore dripping from every surface, and _they still don’t see it_! Ack! ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/36 "2006-11-05T23:38:52Z")
Most of the moments cited in the horror films here and when the locksmith’s daughter in Crash jumps into her father’s arms just as the angry shopkeeper shoots. I was lying down on my couch and jumped to my feet! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/37 "2006-11-05T23:42:10Z")
The scene from **Sixth Sense** that makes me jump is when Haley is standing there peeing - and the girl walks by. I know it’s coming. I know about when it’s coming. But it scares the CRAP out of me each time. To those who voted for the \*\*Exorcist III \*\* scene - right there with you. I clicked on the youtube link … but then clicked it off. I can’t watch it. The **Butterfly Effect** had a number of scenes that made me jump. I only watched it once, though. OK, I’m by myself in a dark house. I can’t think of any more creepy movie scenes :eek: ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/38 "2006-11-06T02:42:06Z")
[QUOTE=Clockwork And Candy] I’m going to try an’ be less obvious and go with the scene in the car during **The Forgotten**. [/QUOTE] _Any_ scenes like this make me cringe and jump. I think the first one I noticed, so therefore the most prominent in my mind, was in the beginning as Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton were driving along. :eek: That poor kid! Now, anytime I know one is coming up, I just try to look away. Unfortunately, my imagination makes it almost just as bad. I just hate, hate, hate folks getting hit by cars. Ugh. As to something different from what’s been mentioned thus far (and because I have a really shitty memory for much past this last week), the new **Omen** , although incredibly pathetic, had me about pee myself. It probably wasn’t that inherently scary, but you know how it is when a movie’s so awful that you spend your entire time critiquing it with thoughts of how much better they could have made if they’d only done \> this \<. Anyway, when Thewlis and Schreiber were in the cemetery and some dog comes rushing at them from out of the left side of the frame. I was so bored at this point that when it happened I threw my arms out side wide and hard that I bonked my poor puppy straight on the nose. Needless to say, I had to bribe him off with Milkbones a lot to make up for it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/39 "2006-11-06T03:42:48Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] In the 1953 version of THE THING, there’s a scene where they have learned that two men were killed by the Thing, hung upside down and drained of blood. They’re going to the room where the bodies are, and when they open the door, the Thing is standing right in the doorway. I’ve seen the movie several times, I know what’s coming, and I still jump out of my skin. And there’s no camera trickery, no fancy fast-cut, it’s the overall set-up. [/QUOTE] That made me jump, but I liked the exchange immediately afterward. “Did you get your picture?” “No, I jumped too much.” “Wanna try again?” “No.” And another vote for **Carrie**. I was in the very back of the theatre and when That Scene happened, the whole theatre (me included) levitated six inches. ---
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[QUOTE=Freudian\_Slip] The scene from **Sixth Sense** that makes me jump is when Haley is standing there peeing - and the girl walks by. I know it’s coming. I know about when it’s coming. But it scares the CRAP out of me each time. … [/QUOTE] I have the same problem. In the original _Jurassic Park_, the very first time I saw it was in a huge 70mm theater, when the archaeologists and children are in the ceiling, and the Raptor jumps up with terrifying speed, I jumped the same as the entire rest of the theater. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018.md?page=3)