01
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
- Jump scares
- 47
- Fear
- 5.5
- Gore
- 3.0
- Atmosphere
- 6.5
- Overall
- 6.8
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
Jump Scares
Haunted House Movies With the Most Jump Scares
Ranked by counted jump scares, the most first
By Alan Willey
Haunted House Movies ranked by how many jump scares they contain, the most first. Every film here has at least eight counted jolts, which measures how often the film goes for the startle and not whether the film is any good.
02
Voces (2020)
- Jump scares
- 27
- Fear
- 8.0
- Gore
- 4.0
- Atmosphere
- 8.0
- Overall
- 7.8
After a tragic turn of events at the new home he's fixing up, Daniel hears a ghostly plea for help, spurring him to seek out a famous paranormal expert.
03
Insidious (2010)
- Jump scares
- 24
- Fear
- 8.0
- Gore
- 2.5
- Atmosphere
- 8.2
- Overall
- 7.8
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
04
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
- Jump scares
- 23
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.
05
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
- Jump scares
- 22
- Fear
- 8.0
- Gore
- 5.0
- Atmosphere
- 8.5
- Overall
- 7.3
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
06
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Jump scares
- 22
- Fear
- 7.7
- Gore
- 2.8
- Atmosphere
- 8.1
- Overall
- 7.7
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
07
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
- Jump scares
- 20
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
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.
08
Lights Out (2016)
- Jump scares
- 19
- Fear
- 7.0
- Gore
- 1.0
- Atmosphere
- 7.0
- Overall
- 7.3
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.
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09
Housebound (2014)
- Jump scares
- 19
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
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.
10
The Amityville Horror (2005)
- Jump scares
- 17
- Fear
- 6.0
- Gore
- 5.0
- Atmosphere
- 7.9
- Overall
- 6.8
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.
11
The Woman in Black (2012)
- Jump scares
- 16
- Fear
- 6.0
- Gore
- 1.0
- Atmosphere
- 7.9
- Overall
- 7.5
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.
12
Ouija (2014)
- Jump scares
- 16
- Fear
- 3.9
- Gore
- 1.0
- Atmosphere
- 5.2
- Overall
- 5.6
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
13
Haunt (2019)
- Jump scares
- 16
- Fear
- 7.0
- Gore
- 7.0
- Atmosphere
- 7.0
- Overall
- 6.5
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.
14
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
- Jump scares
- 14
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.
15
Oculus (2013)
- Jump scares
- 14
- Fear
- 7.0
- Gore
- 6.0
- Atmosphere
- 7.5
- Overall
- 7.1
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
16
곤지암 (2018)
- Jump scares
- 12
- Fear
- 8.7
- Gore
- 1.0
- Atmosphere
- 8.7
- Overall
- 7.7
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
17
The Conjuring (2013)
- Jump scares
- 12
- Fear
- 9.0
- Gore
- 2.0
- Atmosphere
- 9.0
- Overall
- 8.3
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
18
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
- Jump scares
- 11
- Fear
- 7.0
- Gore
- 1.0
- Atmosphere
- 7.3
- Overall
- 7.9
In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
19
Annabelle (2014)
- Jump scares
- 11
- Fear
- 4.0
- Gore
- 3.0
- Atmosphere
- 6.0
- Overall
- 5.5
A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
20
The Babadook (2014)
- Jump scares
- 11
- Fear
- 7.0
- Gore
- 4.0
- Atmosphere
- 8.0
- Overall
- 7.3
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
21
Paranormal Activity (2007)
- Jump scares
- 10
- Fear
- 6.5
- Gore
- 1.0
- Atmosphere
- 6.0
- Overall
- 6.5
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.
22
Crimson Peak (2015)
- Jump scares
- 9
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
23
Under the Shadow (2016)
- Jump scares
- 9
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
24
Poltergeist (1982)
- Jump scares
- 9
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
25
The Amityville Horror (1979)
- Jump scares
- 8
- Fear
- —
- Gore
- —
- Atmosphere
- —
- Overall
- —
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian 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.
Common questions about haunted house movies with the most jump scares
- Which haunted house movies have the most jump scares?
- This list ranks haunted house movies by their counted jump-scare total, highest first. Every film on it has at least eight counted jolts.
- How are jump scares counted?
- Counts come from editorial curation cross-referenced with jump-scare timestamp catalogs, not an algorithm. A film we have not counted yet is left off rather than estimated.