Sinister is a stone-cold classic ghost film.
It’s fantastically chilling no matter how many times I watch. A child runs towards the protagonist and viewers, and as they get close they dip out of frame due to their height, but just as they leave our view a full-grown man/monster rises into the frame in front of us. It’s an in-camera gag-one crafted without the use of outside effects-and it is as simple as it is effective. Shock is a mixed bag on the whole, but in addition to a few other highlights, it also manages one hell of a scare. And perhaps I like The Descent more than I lead on? (Chris Coffel) At this point in the film, we’re already trapped in a dark, claustrophobia-inducing cave, unable to see a thing, and then we have this thrown in our face out of nowhere? Naturally, it causes me to let out a high pitched scream that lands somewhere between Ned Flanders and the Blood Brothers. Of course, I’m referring to the creature reveal through the night vision setting on the handheld camera. With that said, there is one scene that makes me clam up with fear faster than Mike Pence seated next to a woman that isn’t his mother-wife. Many horror fans would place it amongst the century’s best and I’m sure a number of my comrades in #TheBooCrew would rank it highly as well, but for me, it’s just ok. Neil Marshall’s story about cave exploration that goes woefully wrong isn’t a favorite of mine. Defend the good, deplore the bad, and keep reading for the top ten jump scares that don’t feel cheap as voted on by Anna Swanson, Brad Gullickson, Chris Coffel, Jacob Trussell, Kieran Fisher, Rob Hunter, Valerie Ettenhofer, and myself.ġ0. We’ve had better and won’t settle for less!Īnd so, friends, hold your brows high and demand more from your screamers. We’ve had enough “gotcha” moments thank you very much. Maybe the scare subverts expectations, raises the stakes or reveals something new about a space or a character. In this way, perhaps jumpscares are the truffle oil of the horror pantry putrid in excess, but marvelous in moderation. In fact, when deployed carefully they can result in some of the genre’s most memorable and traumatizing scares.
Jummp scares movie#
Probably be a lot cheaper than a movie ticket, I’ll tell you what.īut we of discerning taste know that jump scares aren’t necessarily a bad thing. If blasts of noise are all it takes for an effective spine-tingling spook I’ll go down to a marina and stick my head in a foghorn. And it’s true: many a horror flick has confused startling its audience with scaring them, ruining a fair share of inner eardrums in the process. This article is part of our ongoing series, 31 Days of Horror Lists.Ī good jump scare is hard to find, or so the saying goes.
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