# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/41 "2006-11-06T07:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] 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. [/QUOTE] Same thing happened to me with \Jurassic Park: The Lost World\. That damn raptor shoving his head under the wall of the shack scared the bejesus out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/42 "2006-11-06T07:27:01Z")
Damn you non-html forum! ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/43 "2006-11-06T08:45:09Z")
oh, god. so many. the most recent one was in **The Descent**. I jumped about 5 million times throughout the course of that movie and was in the fetal position by the end, but the one that sent me (and everyone else in that theater) out of my seat was the first time you see one of those fucking THINGS up close. they’re panning the camera around, slowly, slowly, HOLYFUCKWHATTHESHITISTHATAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! fucking TERRIFYING. probably the worst shock I’ve had in my adult life came from **The Eye**. A quiet little calligraphy school, checking out some calligraphy, cool, cool, and BAM some fucking dead schoolgirl thing is roaring and screaming what the fuck are you doing in my chair and I literally screamed out loud. I had to pause it for my breathing and heart rate to slow down enough to where I could even concentrate on the movie again. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/44 "2006-11-06T16:29:22Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] 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. [/QUOTE] Yeah, the first time I saw **Alien** was in a big ol’ 70mm theater. My friend and I got there late and the only two seats left together were in the second or third row, so we spent most of the movie craning our necks up and constantly looking back and forth because the screen was so wide. When the alien jumped out of the egg onto John Hurt’s face, I just about crapped my pants. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/45 "2006-11-06T18:53:18Z")
I always jump when the alien walks out from behind the shrubs in _Signs_ (in the birthday party videotape). I know it is going to happen, but it still gets me all the time. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/46 "2006-11-06T21:12:24Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash] I always jump when the alien walks out from behind the shrubs in _Signs_ (in the birthday party videotape). I know it is going to happen, but it still gets me all the time. [/QUOTE] Seconded on the videotape. Scared me far more than the alien in the living room at the end (when I knew a confrontation would occur). ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/47 "2006-11-06T21:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] 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. [/QUOTE] Agggh. I’d completely blocked this from memory. “Zelda” made it impossible for me to ever watch the movie again. I think there’s a place in the movie where she scurries across the floor too, but the shooting up in bed was Too. Much. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/48 "2006-11-06T21:55:06Z")
Most recently: I rented [**Mindhunters**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297284/) last weekend, and I totally fell for the setup in the scene where Christian Slater’s character is in the shower: the camera is behind him, and slowly advances, then we see him spin around suddenly as if he hears someone else there. There are a few seconds of that kind of tension, and then he goes back to showering – right as Patricia Velasquez’s character sneaks up on him. I totally jumped right off the couch, but I blame the fact that I was distracted by Slater’s hot nakedness. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/49 "2006-11-07T00:17:25Z")
Totally with The Descent… The girls are trapped in a cave, absolutley no light, so one girl gets the brightspark idea of using her camcorders nightvision to check the party. We look through the camera’s eerie green viewfinder. Ok, ok, ok, we all seem to be here, hey, you arent in our group ARRRARRAGAGGGHHHHHH!!! the bus splat in Final Destination; everybody in the theatre went about eight inches off their chairs, then began high fiving each other, laughing. What Lies Beneath… Harrison tries to take off Michelles locket, leaning her forward. When she leans back… Thats not Michelle… The thing with all these is that they only give you that JUMP once, its the law of diminishing Jumps. Each time you see it after that, you jump less. Except… In Apocalypse Now, the chef guy and Willard go into the jungle to look for magos. Chef looks into the jungle, it seems to move; A tiger roars and bounds out at him. You can never judge the timing of the tigers leap, there’s no soundtrack to signpost when somethings gonna jump, plus most of the time, given what has happened in the movie so far, I forget that there’s a Tiger in the movie at all. Gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/50 "2006-11-07T00:59:38Z")
[QUOTE=bubastis] In Apocalypse Now, the chef guy and Willard go into the jungle to look for magos. Chef looks into the jungle, it seems to move; A tiger roars and bounds out at him. You can never judge the timing of the tigers leap, there’s no soundtrack to signpost when somethings gonna jump, plus most of the time, given what has happened in the movie so far, I forget that there’s a Tiger in the movie at all. Gets me every time. [/QUOTE] Hee hee hee… never get out of the boat! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/51 "2006-11-07T02:27:30Z")
_The Attic_. If you’ve seen it, you know when. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/52 "2006-11-07T07:17:26Z")
Most of my others have already been mentioned. For some reason, one scene in the [Mothman Prophesies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/) got me good. Richard Gere is in alone, lies down in bed, and his dead wife says something to him. No one else in the theater seemed to react though, which was embarrassing as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/53 "2006-11-07T19:53:16Z")
The banshee swooping up to the cottage door in _Darby O’Gill and the Little People_. One of the only movies that ever REALLY scared me. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/54 "2006-11-07T20:58:26Z")
The 1972 Tales from the Crypt movie. There’s a segment with Joan Collins and a “Santa”. When Santa surprises Joan, the entire theatre jumped as one and screamed (myself included). First time I’d ever seen something like that. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/55 "2006-11-08T00:05:49Z")
The first ghost they encounter in _Ghostbusters_. Y’know, the old lady reading the book in the library and shushing Bill Murray? ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/56 "2006-11-08T04:27:11Z")
[QUOTE=Clockwork And Candy] 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. [/QUOTE] I almost messed my pants over this scene! Scared the hell outta me–I jumped three feet!! Two others: _Deep Blue Sea_, when Samuel L. Jackson gets killed. Nothing telegraphed this at all, at least not to me. No tense music, no “famous last words.” Just a sharp speech to everyone that they needed to stop bickering and work together and then a sudden splash and a huge GULP! and old Samuel gets turned into shark shit. And, of course, _Final Destination_, when the girl gets kersplatted by the bus. It was a little while before my nerves untangled themselves from around my heart and lungs so that I could breathe normally again! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/57 "2006-11-08T14:45:21Z")
PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE… "and when they pulled her … out of the twisted… mangled… wreckage… she looked just… like… THIS!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/58 "2006-11-08T15:04:41Z")
OK, it’s not a movie, but did anyone see _Veronica Mars_ last night? I think my husband’s leg still has claw marks from when I grabbed it really hard when Keith’s car got creamed by that truck. Just 'cause it came out of NOWHERE! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018/59 "2006-11-09T20:42:21Z")
_American Werewolf in London_, when the dead friend shows up in the mirror, looking progressively more decayed. I _knew_ he was going to show up. I was absolutely certain of it, but when he finally did, I still screamed like a, well, a girl. That’s the only movie I’ve ever walked out of - it was just getting to me too badly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-made-you-jump-open-spoilers/379018.md?page=2)