movie moments that made you jump (open spoilers)

I think in the movie they didn’t have her until TRORK. But in the books she made her appearance in TTT.

That’s what I get for using just letters. :smack:

That should have been TROTK.

Yeah, you’re right. ROTK is what I call it, BTW. LOLWTFBBQ.

Not to nitpick, but didn’t he die in the crash at the end rather than be killed by the Reavers?

Nope; everyone lived through the crash landing, then Wash took a big Reaver harpoon to the chest.

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.

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 something was right behind me in the darkness.

Don’t Look Now, at the end, when Donald Sutherland sees the face of the figure in the red coat- creepy as hell.

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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:

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. :cool:

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.

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.