Scene that made you jump out of your seat

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putnis

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I was watching the video of Fatal Attraction last night. Watching the scene near the end where Glenn Close sprang out of the bath tub after playing dead still gave be a start but i remember watching it at the cinema when it was released and most of the audience went in the air.
What is everybodies most frightening scene in a film.
 
Startling: Jaws, head in boat. Poltergeist, clown doll.

Scary: Ring, Sadako out of tv. The Haunting, phantom handholding sequence.

Revolting: Poltergeist, rotting face. Bad Taste, most of it. :)
 
The grudge, where she jumps into bed and the thing is in there with her - gives me shivers just thinking about it!! Also same film, SMG on the bus with Boyfriend and sees the creepy womans reflection - did not see that coming!!

Jaws, Friday 13th - I did actually leap out of my seat and screamed the place down!
 
Final Destination - When the girl got hit by the bus - very fast and unexpected - and made everyone in the cinema jump - I actually got covered in popcorn cos of the audiences reaction behind me.

Scream - where the killer is taunting Drew Barrymore on the phone at the beginning and she looks up and a chair comes smashing through the patio doors lol - made me jump a mile first time!
 
Quite a few years ago now I was seeing this girl and took her to the `Pictures` We went to see a double bill, Mad Max and Mad Max 2 (I told you it was some years ago)
Mad Max..OK.
Mad Max 2..at the end when Max is driving the truck and the young boy goes out onto the bonnett of the truck to get some bullets(?) When Vernon Wells reaches over and grabs the boys arm, I screamed my head off. The girl wasn`t impressed.
 
alien

the first time the adult alien attacks on the spaceship

jeez the whole film made me jump...the suspence killed me
 
If you think that was revolting you should try watching 'The Isle' :)

I'm annoyingly good at predicting the "shock moments" so they don't really bother me.

The first one I remember was Jurassic Park, which was the first non cartoon film I remember seeing.

The bit that got me was when the fat guy was being chased by the ones with the frilly neck that spat acid.
 
Definitely the severed head in Jaws, and I was quite young at the time when I saw that in the cinema. The whole audience jumped.

The Grudge and Ring, both the Japanese and US versions are pretty jumpy in places.

And although it wasn't a jump-out-of-your-seat moment, the scariest thing I ever saw on the big screen was The Thing, where the dog they rescued turns into the thing and starts devouring the other dogs in the kennel. That was a real shocker for me.
 
it has to be the scene in se7en where they go into the room and the guy is on the bed and they think he's dead, then he makes a noise.....the whole cinema jumped out their seats!
 
Nobody's mentioned that hospital scene in The Exorcist 3 which I saw at the UK premier at some all-night horror festival in north London years ago.

It's one of the most effective scares in cinema.
 
The BBC's "Whistle and I'll Come To You" when Hordern is dreaming about the sheet chasing him across the beach. The dream enRAB with what can only be described as a sort of elephant honk - jumped out of my skin.

S.
 
The head in Jaws and the hand from the grave in Carrie, both mentioned above, are hard to beat for shock value.

The final Fatal Attraction scene was quite good but very silly.
 
Gets my vote! Scared the life out of me that did...

That said, I think a lot of the stuff from FD 2 worked quite well, too - the ladder-to-the-eye, even though I could see it coming, made me jump as well... but maybe I'm just naturally jumpy :P
 
something that really made me jump out of my skin was in gothika where halle berry is in the cellar or somthing and something happens, my mind has gone blank and i cant remember the scene if i remember i will edit. or if anyone remembers please tell.

it was near the end?
 
I was going to mention that one. The first time I watched it on video, I was kinda drowsy. What got me was, there was no build up to the scene, no tension or any giveaway that something was going to happen, just a nurse doing her rounRAB. They even had the "fake" scare just before it.

I just remember shouting "Jesus Christ" and I was wide awake for the rest of the movie.

A highly underrated movie.
 
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