Horror With the Most Jump Scares

Jump scares

20

Fear

6.0

Gore

8.5

Atmosphere

6.5

Intensity

7.8

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

Jump scares

20

Fear

4.0

Gore

5.0

Atmosphere

6.0

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

Jump scares

20

Fear

6.9

Gore

6.0

Atmosphere

8.0

Intensity

7.0

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

Jump scares

20

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

Jump scares

20

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

Jump scares

19

The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.

Jump scares

19

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

Jump scares

19

Fear

7.0

Gore

1.0

Atmosphere

7.0

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Jump scares

19

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

Jump scares

19

Fear

4.0

Gore

5.0

Atmosphere

5.0

Intensity

5.0

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Jump scares

19

Fear

5.7

Gore

6.0

Atmosphere

6.7

Intensity

6.0

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.

Jump scares

18

Fear

4.0

Gore

3.0

Atmosphere

6.0

Intensity

4.0

Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.

Jump scares

18

Fear

6.0

Gore

4.0

Atmosphere

7.4

Intensity

7.8

Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.

Jump scares

18

When a deep-sea research mission inadvertently breaches an unexplored thermal layer beneath the Pacific Ocean, it releases something that was never supposed to resurface: a Megalodon, a sixty-foot prehistoric shark long thought extinct. With the creature now hunting in open waters, a reluctant rescue diver and a team of scientists must stop it before it reaches a crowded shoreline. Equal parts summer blockbuster and creature feature, The Meg leans hard into spectacle over scares.

Jump scares

18

Fear

6.7

Gore

3.7

Atmosphere

6.8

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

Jump scares

18

Fear

6.5

Gore

8.0

Atmosphere

7.5

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

Jump scares

18

Fear

4.0

Gore

5.0

Atmosphere

5.0

Intensity

5.0

Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

Jump scares

17

Fear

2.0

Gore

2.0

Atmosphere

5.0

Intensity

3.0

A group of college friends' Thailand adventure turns deadly when they become trapped in submerged caves with a dangerous predator. As oxygen runs low, past conflicts emerge in their desperate fight for survival.

Jump scares

17

Fear

5.0

Gore

6.5

Atmosphere

8.0

Intensity

6.0

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

Jump scares

17

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

Jump scares

17

Fear

2.5

Gore

4.0

Atmosphere

6.0

Intensity

6.0

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one...only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Jump scares

17

Fear

6.0

Gore

5.0

Atmosphere

7.9

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Jump scares

17

Fear

5.5

Gore

4.5

Atmosphere

7.0

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Jump scares

17

Fear

9.5

Gore

4.0

Atmosphere

9.5

Intensity

10.0

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

Jump scares

16

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

Jump scares

16

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

Jump scares

16

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

Jump scares

16

Fear

6.0

Gore

1.0

Atmosphere

7.9

Intensity

5.7

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

Jump scares

16

Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.

Jump scares

16

After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his small hometown in Illinois, intent on killing his niece, Jamie, who has been confined to a mental institution since his last attempt to slay her.

Jump scares

16

Fear

1.0

Gore

6.0

Atmosphere

5.0

Intensity

3.0

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.

Jump scares

16

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Jump scares

16

Fear

1.0

Gore

5.6

Atmosphere

7.0

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

Jump scares

16

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

Jump scares

16

Fear

3.9

Gore

1.0

Atmosphere

5.2

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Jump scares

16

Fear

2.0

Gore

4.0

Atmosphere

7.0

Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.

Jump scares

16

Fear

5.0

Gore

7.6

Atmosphere

7.5

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Jump scares

16

Fear

2.0

Gore

10.0

Atmosphere

7.0

Intensity

10.0

Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Jump scares

16

Fear

6.0

Gore

7.0

Atmosphere

8.0

Intensity

5.5

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

Jump scares

16

Fear

7.0

Gore

7.0

Atmosphere

7.0

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.

Jump scares

16

Fear

8.5

Gore

8.0

Atmosphere

8.0

Intensity

7.5

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

Jump scares

15

Fear

4.0

Gore

6.0

Atmosphere

7.0

Intensity

6.0

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Jump scares

15

Fear

3.0

Gore

10.0

Atmosphere

5.0

Intensity

10.0

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Jump scares

15

Fear

6.0

Gore

2.0

Atmosphere

8.0

Intensity

5.0

A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

Jump scares

15

Fear

6.0

Gore

2.0

Atmosphere

8.0

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

Jump scares

15

Fear

7.7

Gore

8.1

Atmosphere

8.9

Intensity

8.3

About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

Jump scares

15

Fear

6.7

Gore

7.7

Atmosphere

8.6

Intensity

6.4

Between the events of Alien and Aliens, young miners on a far-off colony board a derelict Weyland-Yutani space station to scavenge the cryopods they need to escape. They don't know what the company was experimenting on there.

Jump scares

15

Fear

3.0

Gore

2.0

Atmosphere

6.1

Intensity

6.0

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

Jump scares

15

Fear

7.2

Gore

2.5

Atmosphere

7.5

A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm, 'The Further'.

Jump scares

15

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.