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The Best Horror Movie Jump Scares. Every week in Answers, we attempt to answer a new pop culture related question. Tying in with the upcoming release of Annabelle Creation, this weeks edition asks What is your favorite horror movie jump scare As always, we have submissions from the Film writing crew and podcast team. Chris Evangelista The Exorcist IIIA sequel to The Exorcist seems like a bad idea, and Exorcist II The Heretic was just that bad. Exorcist II: The Heretic Full Movie' title='Exorcist II: The Heretic Full Movie' />Yet there was still some fire left in the franchise, as evident by the surprisingly great The Exorcist III. Original Exorcist author William Peter Blatty stepped in to direct the third film in the franchise, an adaptation of his novel Legion. The film follows Lt. Watch Puppet Master X: Axis Rising HD 1080P more. Kinderman George C. Scott, the cop from the first film, as he deals with a serial killer who has the power to jump out of his body and possess others to do his evil bidding. It sounds kind of silly, but its actually one of the most effective horror sequels ever made. And it also contains perhaps the best jump scare of all time. Jump scares can be cheap things quick, pointless moments that shock but then quickly fade from memory. The jump scare in Exorcist III is different. Blatty keeps the camera at a fixed position, far away from the action. A nurse Tracy Thorne is going about her rounds late one night at a mostly empty hospital. She moves from one room to the next then back to the nurses station. Modern horror films would keep building this moment up with dramatic, spooky music, but Blatty keeps it silent, which somehow makes it all the more unnerving. We know something bad is going to happen, but were not sure what. Watch Hot Rod Horror Online. The nurse checks another room, shuts the door, turns her back and begins to move. In a flash, a figure dressed as a nun in flowing robes comes flying out of the room the nurse just looked in, brandishing a huge pair of surgical shears aimed right at the back of the nurses neck. Tying in with the release of Annabelle Creation, the Film crew has compiled a list of the best horror movie jump scares. Now, at last, Blatty moves the camera in for a zoom as a musical sting blasts out, and the shot quickly cuts to a decapitated statue of Jesus. Without seeing a single drop of blood spilled on screen, we know the terrible fate that befell the poor nurse. Through this subtle editing, the scare has burned itself into our brains it wont be fading away any time soon. Ethan Anderton Signs. Directed by Paul Schrader. With Stellan Skarsgrd, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford. Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeils soul. While thinking about the more startling moments that Ive witnessed during movies, I couldnt get this scene from M. Night Shyamalans Signs out of my head. It might not be the scare that youd think of when Signs is brought up, since the moment when the alien is first revealed by way of a home video on the news is nothing short of iconic, but the above scene made me jump out of my seat when I saw it in theaters. Whats great about this jump scare is first theres so much tension leading up to it. Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix are moving their flashlights from two different sides of the basement towards a draft that they feel coming from the coal chute in the old farmhouse they live in. Exorcist II: The Heretic Full Movie' title='Exorcist II: The Heretic Full Movie' />They need to close it up to ensure the aliens that are descending upon the house cant get in. As the lights move towards the same area, you think that there will be some kind of big reveal once they reach the coal chute. But that tension is relieved as the flashlights land on Rory Culkin, waiting calmly by the coal chute, and everything seems fine. But its not. Suddenly, a pitch black alien arm reaches from the coal chute grate and grabs Rory Culkin. Since the alien skin has a camouflage ability, it blends right in with the black metal on the coal chute, making it even more shocking when the arm moves. Even more impressive is the fact that no digital effects are used to hide the arm whatsoever. Its a practical effect, and your eyes dont notice it because your attention is on Rory Culkin and youre relieved that an alien wasnt down there. Its such a great jump scare. Jack Giroux The Innocents. If Im ever by myself at a house during the night and walking by an oversized window, this scene comes to mind. Every time. Its a perfect jump scare that leaves a mark. Its also a jump scare that earns shock and terror without a loud noise or a blaring piece of music or sound FX. The buildup to the ghostly Peter Quints big hello is masterful. The young actors Martin Stephens and Pamela Franklin were perfectly cast, and their laughs, demeanor, and everything about them and that music creates unease. Theres something sinister and mischievous about the music that readies you for something awful. When Miss Giddens enters the large room, the abrupt silence creates instant tension. Director Jack Clayton gives this big scare an equally unnerving buildup and pay off. Theres so much I love about this scare Kerrs genuine reaction of terror, Quints chilling stillness, the close up of Kerr when he arrives in the background, the deep shadow of darkness the ghost casts, the reflection of Mrs. Ii6hBQ/Uv_ZVVOrt9I/AAAAAAAAB3Q/j9J7WIpx5Fo/s1600/POSTER.png' alt='Exorcist II: The Heretic Full Movie' title='Exorcist II: The Heretic Full Movie' />Grose, and so much more. He was staring past me into the house as if he was hunting someone, Giddens says. Even the characters description of the jump scare and Qunt is fantastic. Lindsey Romain House on Haunted Hill 1. The Exorcist Bluray 40th Anniversary Edition Extended Directors Cut and Original Theatrical Version 1973 Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb. John Boormans Exorcist II The Heretic was released in 1977, and revisited Regan four years after her initial ordeal. The plot dealt with an investigation into the. The Exorcist is a 1971 novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of twelveyearold Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a. Here is an alphabetical listing of all the movies so far that have been certified as among the 366 weirdest ever made, along with links to films reviewed in capsule. A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girls exorcist. Dark Country Movie Watch Online. The sheer and out of nowhere surprise of this moment from the original, Vincent Price starring House on Haunted Hill still chills me to the bone, even though I know its coming, and even though its nestled in the middle of an otherwise scare free camp fest. The movie is fun a definite horror classic but this moment, where a woman is raddled by the specter of an old woman, is pure terror. The total silence just before her appearance, which arrives with a shrill burst of music, is bone chilling, but simple. The ghosts distorted face and eerie movement are basic in methodology, but utilized to genius effect. I wish more modern films went for such practical scares the mundanity feels textural, like something thatd really happen, which is always more terrifying than bloated CGI monsters or laboriously telegraphed spooks. Horror, for me, is best when its recognizable, the elements of our world manipulated into something familiarly off. I think of this scene when I move through the dark in the night, waiting for the woman to emerge. Thats a good jump scare one that lingers long after ignition. Pages 1 2. 3Next page. Cool Posts From Around the Web. The Exorcist III 1. A number of brutal and ritualistic type murders that have taken place in Georgetown has police Let. Bill Kinderman, George C. Scott, deeply concerned. Lt. Kindeman was in charge of the Gemini Killer serial murder case that happened fifteen years ago and the MO of these killings are identical to that of that long ago killer. The fact that the murder victims now, a 1. Catholic priests, were killed exactly the same way as those victims of the Gemini Killer were back then. The method of his savage actions was never reviled to the newspapers and the public yet these killings could not have possibly been done by him since the Gemini Killer was executed back in 1. Worthy follow up to the original movie The Exorcist if you throw out the awful The Exorcist Part II The Heretic made some thirteen years earlier. William Peter Blattys Exorcist III starts where The Exorcist left off when the heroic Father Karras, Jason Miller,fell down a long flight of stairs outside the Mac. Neil residents taking the demon who was in possession of young Regan Mac. Neils body with him to his death. At that very moment the convicted Gemini Killer James Venamun, Brad Dourif was executed for his crimes. The Devil took advantage of this moment in time by transferring the soul of Venamun into the dead Father Karras body and at the same time bring Karras back to life. Wondering around the streets of Georgetown the now unrecognizable and comatose Father Karras was taken into a local mental institution where he spent the last fifteen years, strapped down in a padded cell, and known to those in charge only as patient X. As time went by Karras mental facilities slowly came back to him and with Venamun in control of his body and, this is hard to take, soul has been using the mental patients to do his bloody work. Manipulating their, crippled and very impressionable, minds the patients go out in the neighborhood as well as in the hospital and commit this latest string of Gemini killings. Exorcist III has a lot of dream like and surrealistic scenes in it which at times confuses you. As it moves to it final conclusion, in the graphic battle between Good and Evil, it becomes very clear to what its been telling you for the first 9. The Devil through the helpless Father Karras, whom he brought back from the dead, is waging his war against Good with one of those saintly men who stood fought and died for it. George C. Scott gives his usual top rate performance as the troubled and gilt ridden, he felt that he should have saved Father Karras back in 1. Lt. Kinderman. At first Lt. Kinderman didnt really understand what he was up against, the Devil. When he finally did, at the end of the movie, he not only cast the Devils demons out of the tragic priest but put Karras tortured soul to rest and peace forever, in a truly shocking and memorable final sequence. Both Brad Dourif Jason Miller were just as good as Scott as the Gemini Killer James Venamun and Father Karras who both occupied the same, Karras, body. Like in a titanic tug of war Venamun and Father Karras were in conflict with each other throughout the entire movie. Until the evil, that was engineered by the Devil, on the people of Georgetown and the Catholic Church was finally put to an end. This is a film that I wish we could get a directors cut. Theyre was a different opening and ending along with other scenes taken out by the studio. It seems this footage is lost now but hopefully it will surface one day.