History and Evolution of the Jump Scare

Hey, whats up.. This video is about jumpscares aka jump scares aka screamers... so just FYI, there are jump scares throughout (in case those bother you)
What jump scares affected you the most throughout the years?
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References:
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari:
• The Cabinet Of Dr. Cal...
Nosferatu:
• All The Scary Vampire ...
Cat People Jump Scare:
• Cat People (1942) - St...
Mulholland Drive Jump Scare Analysis:
• David Lynch - How To D...
40 Greatest Jumpscares:
• This Supercut Will Mak...
Scariest Jump Scares:
• Scariest Jump Scares o...
Old School Jump scares:
• Ten Old-School Jump Sc...
Whats wrong with this picture:
• Whats wrong with this ...
Pewdiepie Amnesia Scares:
• [FUNNY] TOP SCARIEST M...
Markiplier FNAF:
• WARNING: SCARIEST GAME...
contents
0:00 intro
0:33 jump scare 101
1:20 Jump scare origins - The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
3:27 Nosferatu
3:50 The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
4:40 Citizen Kane Bird Scene
5:40 Cat People Bus Scene
6:48 Various 1950s Jumpscares
7:35 House on Haunted Hill (1959)
8:10 Psycho
8:50 First Mirror Jump Scare Repulsion
9:24 Carrie and Friday the 13th Jump Scares 1976
10:45 the Exorcist III 1990
11:20 Mulholland Dr Jump Scare
11:38 Signs Jump Scare
11:50 Haunting of Hill House
12:12 Screamers and The Internet Era
12:40 Whats wrong with this photo screamer
13:14 The Scary Maze Game
14:00 Amnesia and Five Nights at Freddys FNAF
14:20 Gmod Nextbots and Obunga
#jumpscare #history #evolution

[@swegz]

Haha so when I first released this video it literally had only 1 view for like 2 weeks.. that 1 view was me btw. I slightly forgot about this channel/put it on hold and literally today I was like, I wonder how that jumpscare video I made is doing and WOW, something happened in the algorithm in the past few weeks and now were sitting at 100k views. Thanks so much for watching! Yeah I totally messed up when I called Jason Voorhees, Freddy, Idk why I did that and never caught it in the editing process. I think I was just laser-focused on getting the video completed. My b my b. Please forgive me. I made a couple other mistakes as well (oops) More videos coming soon! Its currently tornado season so Im doing tornado content on another channel. Hopefully I can get a new video out within the next month. Thanks again for watching!

[@sugarpea4484]

Glad I found this for whatever videos are coming next!

[@JADESGSz130]

bro got blessed by the algorithm fully and im here to see it

[@BoopSnootAndTroubleshoot]

Horror history is amazing, and you delivered a very easy to follow, straight to the point video. What can I say, except well done!

[@southcarolinianentertainment]

You should have included goatse.

[@nikirki25]

Checked out your channel to see more videos and was surprised. Great work for the first upload. Subscribed and waiting for more.

[@josueismad6778]

mans really called Jason "Freddy".

[@MrShowbiz48]

Man's an idiot.

[@L0rdskywarp]

Glad I wasn’t the only the only one to catch that!

[@jpn8959]

oops

[@Mudring76]

What an insult to Jason 😒

[@cactocrotone2645]

Thats just sad

[@revanreborn9658]

The most horrifying jump scare for me is the scene in Jaws when Hooper goes to inspect the damaged boat of Ben Gardner and stumbles upon his corpse. That scene is pure nightmare fuel and I always cover my eyes during that scene

[@Joey7Z7Horror]

Was thinking about commenting that it shoulda been here before I even opened the comment section lmao

[@10DollarProductions]

I legit just watched it and it made me jump even though I knew it was going to happen lol. That was a good one.

[@foro921f4]

That jumpscare from jaws, like the similar one in tremors, are amazing because they're pretty much out of the blue and you would not expect something like this in that kind of movies

[@Yundoraphus004]

It always gets me

[@jenniferbourne1053]

Misdirection really helps that one- the viewer expects the another shark attack. A giant tooth in the boat confirms, that, yes, said shark is really big, Could it be sneaking up on him? NOBODY expects a mangled head popping up like a jack-in-the-box.

[@cragnog]

One of the most startling and iconic jump scares for me is from Fellowship of the Ring, when Bilbo sees Frodo with the ring in Rivendell and goes "ITS MINE" while his face momentarily turns demonic. Saw it for the first time in cinemas when I was about 14 and my friend screamed out "OH MY GOD", much to the amusement of everyone around us. Good times.

[@ReMeDy_TV]

That was a very effective jump scare, namely because the Shire is so peaceful, Bilbo is a good guy, Frodo and Bilbo are just sharing a friendly banter at the start of the movie, and then "OMG!!?! WTF!!!?"

[@insomniico4046]

THAT SCARED ME SO BAD AS A KID im so glad i wasnt the only one🛐

[@professorkeeg9112]

Freaked me out when I first saw it

[@crumbtember]

the jump scare where the lady/witch/elf/idk was in a scene with like a basin/birdbath and she has a scary face hehehehehe

[@ekathe85]

Yeah. Best jumpscares IMO come from non-horror movies, which is where you don't expect them. Another one I can bring up is One Hour Photo.

[@skonataofawakening]

One of the first internet jumpscares to really get me was the Bongcheon-Dong ghost. Thinking you are in control of reading a comic only to have that control ripped away from you was something I had never experienced before and I feel like was one of the building blocks for some of the more common meta horror these days.

[@mccuish]

The death of flash has killed this one

[@b.morosov1182]

oh god totally forgot that, that scared me shitless

[@HJ-ju4ui]

Oh i HATED THAT in addition the story was scary as hell 😅

[@jeffcobb2734]

I was 15 years old in 1980. I went to see Friday the 13th without knowing anything about it. I cannot tell you how truly startling the Jason canoe jump scare was back then. The entire audience leapt out of their skin in unison. Nothing has ever come close to repeating that experience for me. Probably the next most memorable is the Haunting of Hill House car scene.

[@malxire7084]

both of those scares got me!

[@yume5441]

the haunting of series are SO. GOOD.

[@malxire7084]

@@yume5441 yes

[@aleksandraabrahamowicz9288]

I watched haunting of Hill House recently and my soul left my body in the car scene-

[@gwenschroder4247]

You should watch Smile. The entire theater was screaming at every jump scare!!! I watched people leave the theater!!

[@Evolfurnace]

There is this one korean horror webcomic titled ‘The Bongcheong Dong Ghost,’ about a ghost that attacks a young girl walking home at night, where you’re scrolling down the page thru the comic, and once you get to the point in the story where the character is attacked by the ghost it autoscrolls down a bunch of panels to animate the ghost rushing the point of view like a flipbook. Very original and scary!

[@jonathanrobinson8926]

Thank you so much. I think about this one sometimes and haven't been able to remember the name of it in years. Terrified me when I first saw it, must have been 10 years ago..

[@torquettalk]

I hated my laptop when I scrolled through that before

[@error-try-again-later]

I full-on BOLTED out of the room when I first read that as a kid and my computer started scrolling by itself 😭💀

[@Kwikii1]

There are two more comics by the same artists: Ok-su Station Ghost and Ghost in Masung Tunnel. Never got as popular as Bongcheon-dong, wonder why 😛

[@NickFje]

I never knew what that comic was called but I understood which jumpscare you talked about immediately. That jumpscare was so unexpected.

[@Zakru]

Something I love is that these days, the lack of a jumpscare seems to be getting more powerful as a tool for horror. Opens up a whole new avenue for "unsettling" and "terror".

[@lisapierzyna2073]

The computer jumpscares still get me to this day...I guess they give me PTSD from back when I was a child and encountered them on my journey throw the web 😂

[@user-sf9vz4ym9d]

I didn’t watch horror movies for the longest time till i realized that, unlike the internet, movies will just try to scare you instead of traumatize you

[@NekoUrabe]

My favorite jumpscare is from Mulholland Drive. The way it just sucks out all the sound after the scare itself almost makes it feel like you can't breathe.

[@hypercynic]

The fear you can see in his face as he explains his dream... I've had unbearably intense nightmares like this myself, so when it came to fruition as a true-to-life jumpscare, it was very damn effective. It's always about the psychological stuff for me.

[@dreadlordhg360]

I couldn't take it seriously, the creature is like a cartoon witch. Build up was effective and great sound but visually was completely lacking

[@nexus6100]

​@@dreadlordhg360 i will never understand how that makes people jump. The movie just tells you exactly how it will play out and it plays out exactly like that with someone that looks like a homeless person. It's just not for me i guess

[@dreadlordhg360]

@@nexus6100 Yeah same. Probably just genuinely not to my taste. It's a good movie but it's not a great jumpscare

[@nerdloser9987]

One of my favorite movies and one of my favorite jumpscares

[@Stoopid_Noah]

Personally, I absolutely love the "jump scares" that aren't really jump scares.. The ones you might just miss No shrill- or loud sound, that tells you to be scared. No screaming or daunting music. Just - something - moving or standing in the background, out of focus.. The protagonist doesn't notice and you might not either, but if you do.. Oh boy.. I generally really enjoy when the viewer notices a threat, while the protagonist stays absolutely oblivious. Just fills me with so much dread, I love it! Great Video btw. I subscribed and am exited to see more of your content (hopefully) soon! (Sorry for any grammar or spelling errors, English is not my first language lmao)

[@joebenzz]

Yeah the "When you'll see it, you'll shit bricks" moments 😆

[@Stoopid_Noah]

@@joebenzz exactly!!! xD

[@foro921f4]

I absolutely agree with you

[@DoomSlayer65]

Like in the movie Strangers, when she moves out of frame and one of them is in the house in the background, blurry.

[@florafauna8549]

Hereditary has a great one! Where Toni Colette's character is floating in the corner and the audience sees her move, but not the other character in the scene

[@shiiche]

I’m glad Steve Harrington was able to overcome the horrors of the upside down by teleporting to the 2020’s and starting a KZbin channel to talk about movies! Proud of you Steve!

[@psycless]

omg lmao

[@DaveTexas]

This video popped up in my feed and it looked interesting, so I clicked on it. I was pleasantly surprised to hear a familiar, mellifluous voice speaking calmly about jump scares! I binge-watched a whole bunch of tornado videos a couple of weeks back, which is probably why this video was recommended. Great video with excellent research, by the way. I’d love to see more videos like this!

[@10DollarProductions]

Oh my God I fell for so many of these screamers during the ebaums era of the internet. That "what's wrong with this picture" screamer was the first one I ever saw. My two friends and I basically all grabbed onto each other and screamed at the top of our lungs lol. I was legit scared of my basement and computer after that for a little bit.

[@cassiopeia36]

I still remember the first time I saw the "ghost car" jumpscare, back when I was 10-11 years old: When that thing popped up, I wasn't just scared, I was screaming bloody murder. Guess you never forget your very first screamer.

[@navecamnedia]

the scary maze game was popular when me and my friends were 9-10

[@10DollarProductions]

@@navecamnedia Yeah I was probably around 12 or so at the time and I still fell for so many screamers after that first one. I had trust issues with the internet at that point.

[@TheGuzeinbuick]

The big one I remember was the listening to Jingle Bells backwards one. Those sons of bitches even made the rest of the video quiet as hell so you'd turn your volume up. And making you listen extra carefully so that you could decipher the supposed hidden backwards message? In retrospect, it was genius.

[@marianasobrenome3316]

@@cassiopeia36 ok, but The chair one

[@whosethebruce]

The lawnmower scene in Sinister is one of the scariest jump scares in the entire world

[@evilpeti]

Aaaaaah, the good old mowing day tape

[@RobinBoyBlunder]

That movie did scaring right. I liked how they used reflections so you couldn’t really see what he was watching directly but could see it happening in his glasses. I was house sitting alone when I saw that movie in theaters. I’ll never forget when I turned off the lights to the staircase to not look back. I was afraid what might have been looking up at me from the bottom of the stairs. 😂 I was in my first semester of college too, so not like k was a little kid lol.

[@error-try-again-later]

@@RobinBoyBlunder tbf, fear of the stair monster is eternal 💀 I think part of it is bc the thing at the bottom would be blocking the front door.

[@RobinBoyBlunder]

@@error-try-again-later I Guess im jumping out the 2nd story window 😂. That movie really did get imagination going when alone in a big house.

[@ricardoavacado3901]

Nigga this is the real jumpscare

[@TheGingerHeadMann]

The insidious jump scare was delivered sooooooo well. It has eerie music to build up to it, but theres a flashback going on aswell, leading the viewer to think that he music is for the flashback. Also the bright lighting and empty space really subverts the expectations of the viewers. First jump scare that actually made me jump.

[@joepho5148]

For me, the literal "jump scare" from Wait Until Dark with Alan Arkin leaping out of the darkness is always going to be my favorite, mostly because, up until that point, the film leans into a different type of psychological horror, where you become super emotionally invested in Audrey Hepburn's vulnerability as a blind woman in long, tense, drawn out sequences that keep you on the edge of your seat. And then in the final act of the film, we get the iconic jump scare which is a magnificent change of tempo from the rest of the "horror" in the movie!

[@bugoftheleaves]

the first "i just sh*t myself" jump scare.

[@flibber123]

The Thing, when the blood jumps out of the vial. I admire that one because the audience is told what is going to happen and what to expect and yet it still works extremely well.

[@scouseofhorror104]

I think it's the conversation that's going on just before briefly throws you off guard!

[@flibber123]

@@scouseofhorror104 Yeah especially since it's Kurt Russell, who is the lead, and what he's saying is so serious. It's like a magic trick where the magician misdirects the audience's attention so he can pull off the illusion.

[@racso6702]

was just about comment this one

[@sjames304]

That's a good one!

[@itallbeginstoday]

I just rewatched this movie last weekend! I knew it was coming and I still jumped (friend I was watching it with screamed)

[@DanJ94]

The climactic jump scare from “Wait Until Dark” that you briefly showed is my favorite of all time - just because the build up is so good. And, when the movie was originally released in 1967, the theaters would lower all their lights to the legal limit, ideally as Audrey Hepburn’s character takes out lightbulbs one by one in the film. I would’ve loved to be alive to experience that event - and that film itself is one I wish I could experience for the first time again.

[@lazerkeyboard]

The jump scare from Signs permanently altered my brain chemistry how much it scared me. It single handedly turned me away from all horror movies for years. It wasn't until I started playing scary games that not only punish you for not being able to keep calm and make rational decisions throughout but at the same time would make you feel powerful once you learned to strategize or upgraded enough to actually defend you. The game that truly broke my fear of watching scary movies was Alien Isolation. Perfect, terrifying atmosphere with an unstoppable enemy that you either hide or trick and hide until it goes away or you rack up the nerve to push forward. Adding on the androids that speak to you as if they were trying to help you made the segment where you had to follow a blank android, waiting and hoping that it wouldn't turn on you was also a terrifying moment for me. Since then I think Resident Evil 7 has been the last one to satisfy that itch of being stuck in an odds against you situation where you're not truly powerful, especially if you spend your resources carelessly. Plenty of jump scares of ultra intimidating moments.

[@lunareldritch3145]

The one jumpscare that still sticks in my mind is the darth maul lookin mf from insidious, its still my favorite jumpscare bc as a kid it terrified me and now as an adult i've grown to appreciate it bc of how effective it is even though theres no musical sting, loud noise, or instant close up. Its genuinely beautifully excecuted, i love it. I was so sad when i saw it on your timeline but then you didn't talk about it 😂

[@truk23100]

me too. I think the movie has so much terrifying jumpscares that still haunt me as an adult.

[@tripaloski_6971]

Same, at the end of insidious 2 I believe when the thing was just standing behind the character

[@hyperball01]

It has been YEARS since I've seen that jumpscare! It still freaks me out😂

[@sketchycat6223]

And now a new insidious movie is coming out this year. Time flies

[@_SunscreenQueen_]

That one is good. Got me the first time

[@deadpan80]

I know we could spend all day listing jump scares, but I think you are missing one significant one: the girl in the closet from The Ring (2002). That scene works so well because you do not see it coming - its not even telegraphed like most jump scares. It jolts you immediately, and its so effective that it keeps you on edge for the rest of the movie because you simply cant trust that it wont happen again. The ending of the movie is also effective.

[@CindyBear55]

That one scared the shit out of me in the theatre!

[@rrico168]

Super creepy - Saw it in the theater with a friend of mine and when it happened we turned to each other in stunned silence with the same “oh shit man WTF have we gotten ourselves into watching this fckin movie?” look on our faces LOL. Good times

[@TheGuzeinbuick]

And if I remember right, that's actually the only jump scare in the whole movie. Such a good film.

[@hadara69]

Good call! What’s MOST effective (I say this as an FX Artist) is how SUPER fucking realistic the bloated corpse was, and that her head dropped like that. Tbh, most Horror flicks don’t render their ‘dead’ very realistically. It’s almost a cartoon of what death really looks like. Samara’s victims in the flick were all beyond disturbingly DEAD looking. It’s what made it MOST effective, imho. (btw, the Japanese “Ringu” it’s a remake of had comical “scared to death” victims, though it’s still excellent)

[@deadpan80]

@@hadara69 oh yeah, the slight movement of the head adds a lot.

[@GeorgeWeeman]

The one that really got me as a kid was the ending scene of Sleepaway Camp! Anyone who has seen it, knows how terrifying it is the first time seeing it. Also, what about the clapping game scene in The Conjuring? I was watching that movie with headphones on, by myself, at like 3 o'clock in the morning! That got me so bad, it made me yelp out loud lol!

[@zrkch]

Definitely wasn’t sure what to expect with this not being a tornado video, but, I was pleasantly surprised! I love learning about early film making and media. This was incredibly well done & very interesting! Hope to see you reach more viewers and subscribers on both channels 😊

[@ThatBritishGuy7]

Lake Mungo to me has the perfect jump scare not just for its effectiveness and build up but the fact it recontextualises so much of the film that instilled a terrifying sense of existential dread.

[@error-try-again-later]

The build-up before it is perfect. All you can see is this small, pale thing coming out of the darkness towards the camera, and then out of nowhere it suddenly starts to look human. When it finally comes out, the low camera quality makes it look uncanny as shit.

[@alfredolineroslimon1729]

Man everytime I remember that jumpscare I have goosebumps. So freaking good

[@Froschvampir]

Agree. Generally one of the best horror movies I've ever watched, up there with the classics. That movie landed on my 10/10 list immediately, and I did not expect anything from it at first.

[@KilledByKangaroo]

First jumpscare in a video game for me was Resident Evil in 1996 with the dog through the window.

[@olegslapins8156]

Yea same here. I played it when I was 12 and my cousins whe were younger watched me playing it. The moment those dogs went through the windows made the youngest cousin cry and run out the room. He was scared to watch me playing after that.

[@dablika2524]

Damn, we have really close first jumpscares. My first one was me watching my grandfather playing RE4 on the wii, on the castle garden section, during the moment when the colmillos come out of the bushes. Their noises are like 50% of the whole horror they hold

[@ReMeDy_TV]

Another RE jumpscare worth mentioning is the mirror in the interrogation room. We all know about it nowadays, but it can be easy to forget that the interrogation room mirror has a room on the opposite side of it, so the licker jumps thru and you're basically trapped in this claustrophobic room with it, nevermind the fact a licker probably killed the player at least once earlier, like in the hallway scene when it's first introduced.

[@fishboyFishyFins]

Really cool video, looking forward to more!

[@ollow_is_sad5373]

The Walten Files is a notable mention, the tension, the actual scares, the fact that you have to WAIT for the scare in this unbelievably long amount of building tension. It's made amazingly, and is so worth it. Sometimes the sacred is just. Staring at you. Sometimes it is the big jump with loud sounds, but the loud sounds are actually really disturbing. The jumpscare actually scares you, and it's almost rewarding after all that creepy tension. Not to mention the visuals are bloody terrifying.

[@INCBlackbird]

I think what makes the jump scare in the exorcist iii extra effective is the fact that the build up already includes a fake out jump scare. So you've felt the build up, are convinced it's over and was nothing, and right when you feel this release and safety, while still being on high alert, the actual jump scare happens. It's genius!

[@sjames304]

Yep. Works so well. It's my favorite one.

[@SilicateOverlord]

what makes it stick for me is that the nurse is so oblivious, she clearly lockes the door, and that snap zoom, BAM! It perfectly conveys the exact feeling of what it's like to have your blood pressure skyrocket

[@DeltaOracle257]

Is nobody going to mention that he called Jason “Freddy”?😂 10:18

[@ChiefCodee]

That’s Why He’s Getting A Dislike From Me 😂

[@jazzistaats843]

I noticed it too say day In horror

[@thejabberwalker]

I wondered about that - everything else is very well done, thoughtful and researched... I think it was a troll.

[@xXluluchanelXx]

@@thejabberwalker it's not that serious you guys

[@imageword5576]

Too late. a comment was made 3 days before yours about it.

[@jesusranch34]

This was so interesting and well researched. Great work!

[@stevenmyles1956]

Great video! The Goldeneye background music was a great touch👌

[@LornaEGL]

Jacob's Ladder had some awesome jump scares. I almost tore my left ear off watching a screamer prank whist wearing headphones that wrapped around your ears when I was about 13.

[@VeggieBrah]

The entire ending of the 2007 film REC had some of the scariest and tense jumpscares I've ever seen. And I usually can't stand how cheap jumpscares are. The game PT also had some truly great jumpscares.

[@bruh-gn5kc]

Mannn P.T, haven't heard that in while R.I.P Silent Hills 🙏

[@rightchordleadership]

The last 10 minutes of REC is terrifying.

[@edgelord121]

@@rightchordleadership But also bad. They don't have lasting effect on the viewer. The movie strayed too far. I honestly love the vibe and atmosphere of the first half of the film, but the second half just lost its direction. While the last bit with that attic monster or something is scary at face value, it doesn't mean much when I think of the movie. Good horror is the kind which makes you fear watching it again, even after years have passed.

[@rightchordleadership]

@@edgelord121 the entire film is great. Probably the best found footage movie ever. But for me, those final minutes are the most viscerally terrifying. That creature is hideous and imagining myself helpless in the dark with that thing scares the hell out of me.

[@error-try-again-later]

The final monster in REC is easily one of the creepiest zombies put to screen.

[@mariofoxx26]

Great video! i remember back in 2008-2010 athe jumpscare pranks were THE THING on the internet and i will never forget that video with the chair in a green room and the exorcist jumping on camera, it made me cry everynight for like one month and also Obey The Walrus, omg, i traumatize me for yeeaaars hehe greetings from mexico city

[@markusalma1507]

I'm a little late to see this video. But as a guy who wants to work in the movie industry and especially horror I really enjoyed watching this video and learned alot from it. My goal now is to see every movie you talked about to learn more. Keep up the great work

[@jordanhurd1988]

The Grudge (2004) had a lot of great jump scares. Plus it had a website where it had you do errands in the house. That was a terrifying website.

[@f82k]

my own mother introduced me to the “ghost car” jumpscare when i was like 7. very vivid memory of it. i was deathly scared of the office room & the computer itself for a few months at least after that, thinking it would just pop up whenever at anytime. when i would get in trouble she’d make me spend time in the office or sit in front of the computer. kinda messed up now that i think about it lmfao

[@guavasalt]

MY MOM DID THE SAME THING 😭she would show me jumpscare videos and then got mad at me when she wanted to show me other things and i was too scared to even look at her phone. she made it go on to the point i abandoned all forms of internet media for like 5 whole years. got me very socially alienated and i had to catch up on a LOT of internet culture once i was brave enough to turn on the family computer again

[@ijiwario4715]

My brothers got me with the car one as a kid. I was scared of the computer for years lol

[@mamoelgome]

My dad showed me the car one at that age. I remember criyng so hard while my mum tried to calm me down giving me water in an orange plastic cup. Lol i can't even remember the face, when I was young i tried to picture it but in my head, the face was replaced with the scream mask. My 7 y/o brain found it so scary it banished it from memory😂😂

[@eterniturtle]

I got hit with the maze game as a kid, and had the same trauma as a result. Couldn't be around a blank screen or a screen with an image on it or something for a while after that

[@emychen6609]

The worst Jumpscare that ever got me was in the game called one late night. It's about you being alone at nightshift in an office and there's this old lady who randomly appears and haunts you. I watched it in a lets play and it scared me so much I threw my phone away the moment the jump scare came. I never got my blood preasure that high again.

[@melisscholten5047]

In a office? nightshift? FNAF reference? (JK)

[@bobthebuilder243]

I got jump scared when I found out this is your only video! , bravo , just sub

[@tmamone83]

The two best jump scares are "The Indian in the Cupboard" when the cat suddenly jumps up and the scene in "The Haunting of Hill House" when Shirley and Theo are arguing in the car and Nell's ghost suddenly pops out from the back seat. Basically if you really want a great jump scare, make it unexpected.

[@furrybogard9724]

Jaws with Ben Gardner popping out of the hole. Watched it when in the theater back in '75. I swear EVERYONE leapt out of their seats. Best jump scare ever

[@aidanyelsma7762]

That was the first movie we studied in a film class I took in high school. I knew it was coming but most of the class didn't. When everyone jumped, I just started laughing.

[@meanghoul]

It upsets me greatly that you don't have more videos out, your voice is so pleasant 🖤

[@vlstaples]

Love this. Keep it up. You're my new niche nostalgia channel. And I just got hooked on Aquatic Ambiance randomly the other day when I watched one of your vids

[@TokyoXtreme]

My favorite modern jump-scare genre is the Batman Arkham streamer reaction compilations. I watched all of them and was still caught off-guard in the game itself.

[@furripupau]

Night of the Demon has a few scenes that could be considered jump scares. The end scene was reworked for the ending of Straight to Hell, which turns it into a straight up jump scare (in Night of the Demon the suspense is built up over a longer period of time, and I don't know that it could rightly be called a jump scare, but there are earlier scenes in the movie that are traditional jump scares).

[@zaynes5094]

House on Haunted Hill and the Haunting of Hill House both scared the crap out of me. I love old-school horror and suspense, and I love specifically Japanese horror and suspense, but one of my favorite different jump scare is from the anime Another. Actually it's from the OVa. Although the show itself has a lot of jumpscares and creepy moments, with an overall gloomy feel to it. That gloomy feeling allows for the viewer to be suspended by the fear of death from the anime. There is a scene in the OVA of Another. The OVA has to do with the show, or at least the pre-semester, the anime has to do with an often-sick high school boy who starts living with his aunt and grandparents and who has to learn, along with a girl named Mei Misaki who we assume he has deep feelings for (as he constantly goes out of his way to learn more about her and what her deal is), and things go very badly for his class. One by one, kids, teachers, and former students from that same Class 2-C start dying. In horrible ways. This one scene in the OVA, in the first OVA, has to do with Mei and her twin sister (that she never knew she had before meeting her), and they're at a fair ground having a good time and playing games, riding some rides, while talking about their individual lives. Mei is the social outcast of the school and class, nobody really likes her except for the new kid who she encountered in the hospital before the semester started, and her sister Minari is the social butterfly who is loved by her classmates. There's a scene in that where they're on a Ferris wheel and the sister Minari slips and falls out of it, she's holding on for dear life, we can see the true fear (even in animation) in her eyes as Mei tries holding onto her for dear life, yet she slips and loses her grip. She, we assume, is going to fall to her death, however, she ends up only falling 2 feet to the ground below her. Where she lands safely. But it is in those moments, with the fear of death, along with the intense strings in the background, that further make the scene unnerving and wondering what's going to happen.

[@randy25rhoads]

Nice! Glad you also have non-tornado content!

[@anuman99ful]

Great video, man. Amazing quality.

[@user-kk4zw5jo4t]

I dont know if it's a true jump scare, but along with the figure behind the dumpster in Mulholland Drive my all time shocking and unexpected scene is frozen Jack Nicholson in The Shining... creeps me out to no end 😱

[@melantaly]

I'm excited to see where this channel is going, I sense lots of potential.

[@kelechi_77]

I remember being into this very topic a few weeks ago, glad someone made a video about it, very interesting seeing the evolution of jumpscares in film like this, I searched up the Cat People jumpscare a while ago looking for the first jumpscare in history, and thought this movie is so old there's no way this is going to get me, and it did, it's amazing haha

[@GPoh_99]

Wow, you really made a superbly soothing video here, considering the subject matter.

[@JayDonagh]

I don't why, but the one picture of the pale person with black eyes screaming with their hands on their face has always terrified me, even just looking at it makes me jump for some reason. Ever since I was a kid I've had some sort of apprehension toward that picture. Yet I have no problem with any others.

[@FalcoMoment]

That pic creeped me out years ago as a kid but it doesn't bug me anymore, especially because I now know it's just a old edit of a poster for some strange movie I remember a basic rom hack of Super Mario 64 I saw years ago had a painting and the Toad faces replaced with that image lol

[@caflagel]

@@FalcoMoment “Maniacts” is the name of the film. Not gonna lie, the Screamer version of that face still sends chills all through my body when I see it. Nothing else does that.

[@FalcoMoment]

@@caflagel Yeah that's it, thanks for the reminder The screamer edit is definitely better then the original image for the movie

[@spooderman3308]

They used that screamer image for a jumpscare on AFV a long time ago for a Halloween episode and ever since I got jumpscared from that as a kid that image always has bothered me literally no other screamer even makes me flinch anymore except that one

[@caflagel]

@@spooderman3308 I saw that episode when it first aired. Thankfully I had already seen “What’s Wrong with this Picture” a few years prior, so I knew to avert my eyes from the TV. That picture is uniquely terrifying to me, but it could be because it was the first Screamer I ever saw, so that face is forever burned into my subconscious.

[@dr.loomis4317]

10:22 he really called Jason freddy

[@user-bd7mb4oy9w]

man I can't believe that the first video of a language that is not mine entertains me so much it is also the first or one of the first that you do. I really hope you keep making videos because you are very talented, a hug from Argentina

[@HiRedacted]

Happy to see a small creator get boosted from the algorithm. Shout out to you bro cant wait to see more content from you!

[@DaRealDeeJayJD]

I Saw Her Face scene from The Ring is a classic

[@jwt999]

Bro this just got put in my recommended and I went to sub to ur channel getting ready to binge ur content when I realized u only got 1 video up

[@VandelayH]

Love the way this guy has a really soft voice and is describing these jumpscares like “heck! gosh! Spooky!” Great video

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

And then crap like "Oh mah werd".

[@nattykubdruncle]

My all time favourite jumpscare is from Alien. The sound effect when Kane got attacked by the Facehugger was super startling when I first watched it and I believe it still holds up to this day. But to be fair, a lot of scares in that movie are fantastic. I consider it to be the greatest horror movie ever made

[@scotsmith2391]

Aliens has a great jump scare too in the lab when Ripley and Newt take a nap under the cot.

[@divinuminfernum]

i still find Lon Chaney's face in Phantom of the Opera pretty terrifying, - it has a really look of contorted death, like one of those cadavers you might see in the capuchin catacombs

[@cullenmacgillivary6669]

Great work brother, love this!

[@barbaraschisa7486]

Dude this is a really great video, great job

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

One very notable jumpscare that you didn't mention was the lawnmower scene from the movie Sinister. I've seen many people rank it as one of the scariest.

[@spiritsandsuch]

do you mind explaining the scene for this jumpscare? i don't know if i'll ever end up watching the movie, but i've heard a lot of praise for that specific scene and i'd love to know why everyone likes it so much

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

@@spiritsandsuch The main character of the movie moves into a new house and finds a bunch of old film reels in the attic. Each reel is essentially a mini snuff film that depicts a different family being killed by an unknown murderer. One of the reels depicts the murderer spying on a family from outside their house, then it cuts to the perspective of someone pushing a lawnmower. All you see is the lawn mower being pushed through a yard of grass for a good twenty seconds until suddenly, a person appears tied up on the ground just before the mower rolls over their face.

[@spiritsandsuch]

@@Soooooooooooonicable oh that actually sounds insane lmao, thanks! definitely have more of a push to watch the movie now.

[@switchblade6]

​@@Soooooooooooonicable I knew basically what it was going to be yet I kept reading and now I have unlocked a new fear

[@unsunghero6303]

Omfg. Yes! This is the worst scene ever. I’m so happy some else agrees!

[@vantablack8468]

12:55 god I actually remember running into this jumpscare as a kid. I was on a site for optical illusions when I ran into a similar one of a couch. And me trying to see the “trick/illusion” in this one-BAM. I actually fell out of my chair, headphones unjacking from my computer as I went on the floor. I never visited that site again

[@davidlowe6960]

Blacksheep?

[@vantablack8468]

@@davidlowe6960 what the fuck, how do you know me? Who dis? Do I know u from the madeon arg days? Sorry my memory is trash

[@ghostpictures]

Really good work buddy!

[@YesOkayButWhy]

Signs, Mulholland Drive were my two most memorable and you included them. Also a good cat jump scare in Clock Tower on SNES and curse the person who made the gif (we didn't know what a gif was at the time) that scared me and my cousin when we were 10.

[@herbcraven7146]

The best jump scares ever in my opinion occurred during The Twilight Zone episode # 16, "The Hitch-Hiker". Twice during the show, we are set up on a long shot of protagonist Nan Adams driving down the road when suddenly, the hitchhiker (Leonard Strong) enters the screen in extreme close-up, staring right back at the camera, a simultaneous jump scare and fourth wall break that scares the hell out of you. By the end, you feel Nan's dread when she pulls down the vanity mirror to find him sitting in her back seat. Just masterful direction.

[@scotsmith2391]

Is that the one where he says over and over "Thanks for the ride, lady?"

[@herbcraven7146]

@scotsmith2391 As I recall, he only spoke at the end. "I believe you're going my way."

[@scotsmith2391]

@@herbcraven7146 Okay then I'm thinking of a different show. Woman accidentally hits and kills a hitchiker and drives off. Then he keeps showing up saying "Thanks for the ride, lady"

[@lucy-qh5uw]

it gets me every time

[@crippledcrusader1321]

11:33 fun fact, the person who plays this random woman is the same woman who plays The Nun in the conjuring 2

[@imnobodybye236]

I think the jumpscare where the monster's face zoomed in instead of seeing the characters's reaction, for me is undoubtedly underrated and way way ahead of it's time

[@BillyFusco]

15:00 I thought I was watching a very popular KZbin channel and that caught me so off guard lol. Great video

[@dannybonsai7102]

The handheld cam jumpscare from "The Descent". The timing was so good, the sound comes in right at the moment your brain realises its looking at something scary, not a moment before.

[@jacobbrown3479]

That final reveal from the first sleepaway camp movie has always been the most terrifying scare for me. Never even seen the movie but I’ve seen that clip enough times where it’s just burned into my mind. Her face and the noises and, just all of it. Ugh.

[@ATR1830]

Easily my favorite jumpscare is from The Thing, with the blood testing scene. I absolutely adore it. The buildup is intense with closeups on the blood as the wire goes in, and you wonder if MacReady’s is even correct by the third test, when finally the scare happens and the blood reacts, setting off a bloody gory scene. It’s intense and I love it

[@FriendshipandPonies]

Love this content bro, I love old movies, especially old horror movies. Great work!

[@thomasgeorggoenitzer]

You haven't actually seen Cat People, have you? Anyways, great video

[@James-zj3pm]

Why do you say that?

[@zlch4021]

Why do you say that?

[@ironikmortal9014]

why do you say that?

[@badname8501]

Why do you say that?

[@ToadsMcScroads]

Why do you say that?

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

I think Carrie has such a great jump scare! I’ve watched the movie with friends through the years just to watch them all leap out of their seats! 😹

[@mambushki]

I don't know if anyone mentioned it but, a picture of dorian grey has a very good classic use of a jumpscare using a colored scene inside a black and white movie, totally worth checking out! Great video, i couldn't help bopping my head along the 007 tune

[@Phentem2]

The editing alone made me sub, nice work dude

[@HailAnts]

You left out what I consider to be the first jump scare of the modern era, namely Tom Skerritt shining the light on the alien in the vent in, well, _Alien_ ! Saw _The House on Haunted Hill_ as a kid in the early 70s. That shot of the old woman definitely freaked me out.

[@scouseofhorror104]

Yes! Alien in the vent scene! 🥶😱

[@petrilampela]

Depends on how you define modern era? Halloween had plenty of jump scares and it came a year before.

[@CommonSenseless1993]

I saw the old Phantom of the Opera when I was in middle school like 20 years ago and it scared the hell out of me back then and it still kinda scares me today. I could only imagine what it did to theater goers back in the 1920s.

[@hectormontes7056]

What a great first video, honestly, looking forward to more content

[@mramogus1032]

Swegz, always keeps us entertained! ❤

[@finslaw]

The Monster that Challenged the World has maybe the best jump scare of the 50's. What makes it so effective is the 2 minutes of a guy quietly searching for a noise, and then the attack happens while the camera is slowly panning to the left, completely unexpected.

[@slowdownnn11]

I'm a fan of your tornado channel, and I randomly clicked on this (I'm a horror fan) and was like, "huh?" I'm subscribed to this channel now haha cause I love your tornado content so if you wanna talk about other stuff I'll listen to that too (especially horror movies)

[@waruibeats]

great video!!! keep them coming

[@nickwilliams3688]

The alien on the roof in signs was also a jump scare that got me

[@loganchitty]

One of my favorites comes from the first Saw movie. It’s a flashback to when Adam, the photographer dude, got kidnapped. He wakes up in his apartment, and the power is out. He has to use the flash of his camera to see. And there’s a twofer Jumpscare: when the creepy puppet laughs out of nowhere, and when the person wearing the pig masks leaps at him from the closet.

[@CindyBear55]

YES! Love that movie and that scene is so effective, you know what’s gonna happen just not when!

[@loganchitty]

@@CindyBear55 my favorite part is it isn’t done in a cliched way. You’re expecting him to flash his camera in the closet, and it’ll be empty. Then he’ll have a sigh of relief, turn around, and BOO! But no, it just jumps out when he does it. No time for the audience to calm down. It’s really well made. It’s like a nightmare

[@CindyBear55]

@@loganchitty you know which part really bothered me? When Dr Gordon is trying to call into the building from the parking lot and the shot from the security mirror shows the car door opening and the pig man coming out. The slowness, the crawling, creeped me out to my core.

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Watched that clouds vid and instantly subscribed to your non-tornado channel because of your supreme narrating voice and style. Having watched this I gotta say, even though I've seen other people do it, I'd really like you to break down the history of the Wilhelm scream.

[@yanceypratt6411]

Conrad Veidt is underrated and his contributions to cinema should be appreciated more. Love the vid

[@RedAmerican-qq6cc]

Slight problem, you called Jason “Freddy” at 10:18 . Good video still.

[@petar4onachev]

The maze game shook me so hard as a kid that it changed me as a person I never ever trust any links for anything from anyone online anymore.

[@svby]

Thank you so much for this video! Now I fully understand why Community added that cat flying from left to right in their Halloween episode 😂

[@manglarstudio8496]

awesome video! subscribed, you killed it

[@xXluluchanelXx]

I think the scene towards the end of the Others (2001) where the children are hiding in the closet just about killed me when I saw it in the theater. a lot of thoughtful jump scares in that one

[@xXluluchanelXx]

also the German car commercial zombie was the first screamer that got me, and since I was into stupidly morbid content during that period I was around a lot of stuff that tended to sneak them in, so there was a period of time where I was the most paranoid mfer imaginable while looking at stuff late at night online lol omg remember the ghost girl GIF

[@brunobailly7013]

To me, the classic "jump scare scene" is in Jaws when the oceanographer goes to investigate this boat that's been bitten off by the shark... He sees this big hole in the side of the boat, and all of a sudden... This face appears in the hole. To me, it's the only really "scary" scene in Jaws... because even though there are a lot of potentially scary scenes in Jaws, once you've seen it once, most of the scenes don't scare you anymore because you think more about the special effects behind them than what's being shown. BUT that boat scene is the only one in the movie that STILL manages to scare me even after having seen this movie a dozen times.

[@TeacherPauloPontes]

I loved all the examples you mentioned here, but not mentioning Hitchcok's Vertigo ending scene... damn that one got me shitting myself.

[@purekosu]

i was watching this then i got jumpscared by u saying u had 0 subscribers i was likE WOAHH cus the quality is so good, and i've never seen someone talk about such a unique topic on YT

[@sudasatoshi9769]

New Channel let's get it

[@lettucepersonguy6868]

One jumpscare that I think is impressive is the alien scene in “Nope”. It’s done in complete silence. No loud noises. Nothing even jumps out at you. It starts when you see the alien. It’s dark so you can’t see all of it. And it’s also really far away. You’re just watching it slowly and quietly creep towards the character. And you’re just waiting for it to get into some better lighting so you can see what it actually looks like. And while your brain is still trying to process what it is another one just pops out from behind a doorway. I think what makes it so effective is that at this point in the story we don’t know that it’s just a couple of teenagers in costumes. We already saw a UFO so it would make sense that we would see aliens next. We didn’t know anything about this creature. So when we saw there was a second it went from a “what is that” to a “OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT” moment. Because if there was two who knows how many more there could be. It might also be due to the fact that it shows up directly in front of the original alien. Even though it’s far away, you’re already focusing so hard on the first alien that when another one pops up even closer it really startles you. The movie itself is meh but that part and the digestion scene were both really well done.