Horror Movies That Made Me Jump
by TwelfthDR | created - 03 Nov 2010 | updated - 19 Sep 2013 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,531 | Gross: $13.78M
Not only did a 'jump' when Kurt was testing the blood, but this movie made me jump a 2nd time when the Doc got his hands cut off by the stomach. I never jump in a movie, let alone twice...
2. Stir of Echoes (1999)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas
Votes: 87,490 | Gross: $21.13M
JESUS CHRIST! The part where Kevin Bacon is on the couch tired and he reaches forward to grab the remote and then leans back on the couch as the dead, ghost girl was sitting next to him. Whoa...
3. Saw (2004)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Ken Leung
Votes: 466,631 | Gross: $56.00M
The 'SAW' franchise has become a huge joke with no suspense or horror, just bloody, disgusting deaths. But the 1st Saw, had the best story, you didn't know what to expect, you didn't know who the killer was and it had genuine 'pop-outs' with the pig costume. Life for example; the part where Adam is in his house with the lights out and he uses his camera flashes to see. Then he opens the closet and flashes as the pig pops-out and grabs him.
4. Scream (1996)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich
Votes: 388,370 | Gross: $103.05M
The movie that saved horror. Well, the part that got me was when Drew Barrymore was on the phone with the killer, crying and stuff, as the chair goes through the back french doors. Made me jump...
5. What Lies Beneath (2000)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto
Votes: 135,697 | Gross: $155.46M
This pop-out is truly the part out that I never saw coming. When Harrison Ford is putting Michelle Pfeiffer, in the bathtub and her head goes back but with the dead girl's face on her, making not only Indiana Jones jump, but my ass as well.
6. Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Director: Tod Williams | Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Molly Ephraim, David Bierend
Votes: 109,859 | Gross: $84.75M
I haven't jumped in years and when I do jump,it's very subtle and no one notices. I don't make a scene about it and yell. But the part where the sister was in the kitchen, just tired, and all the cabinets just pop-out, I jumped like a teenage girl.
7. Signs (2002)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 385,652 | Gross: $227.97M
It is very easy for me to pick this movie; sure the alien walking across the screen gave me goosebumps, then again I was 10 at the time, but the part where Mel Gibson is in the crops and he drops his flashlight, and goes to pick it up and the light shines on the alien's leg for a split second made me jump.
8. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,106,483 | Gross: $44.02M
The part where Danny is riding his little bike down the hallway and he turns the corner and stops at the sight of the little evil twins holding hands in front of him. That was a true old-school pop-out.
9. Halloween (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes
Votes: 306,755 | Gross: $47.00M
The movie that got me into horror movies when I was 10. It was my first DVD and it was just scary the first time when you saw it when you were young. The part part that got me when I was little was when Bob was walking after he had sex with Lynda, and Michael Myers pops-out from the closet and pins Bob to the wall with the knife.
10. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
Votes: 285,475 | Gross: $140.54M
The part where they are all in the tent, scared for their lives, and then BAM! Out of nowhere the 'witch' or whatever started banging on the tent and they all haul ass.
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