Do you love being on the edge of your seat throughout a movie? The following horror and thriller movies have been rated at least 4 out of 5 for jump scare frequency and intensity by the Where’s The Jump? team. If these movies don’t make you jump then nothing will!
| Movie Name | Director | Year | Jump Count | Jump Scare Rating | Netflix (US) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Quiet Place | John Krasinski | 2018 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
| Alone | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom | 2007 | 21 | 4.5 | No |
| Annabelle Comes Home | Gary Dauberman | 2019 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| Annabelle: Creation | David F. Sandberg | 2017 | 23 | 4.5 | No |
| Aterrados (Terrified) | Demian Rugna | 2017 | 13 | 4.0 | No |
| Banshee Chapter | Blair Erickson | 2013 | 22 | 5.0 | No |
| Blair Witch | Adam Wingard | 2016 | 18 | 4.0 | No |
| Candyman | Bernard Rose | 1992 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Countdown | Justin Dec | 2019 | 17 | 4.0 | No |
| Darkness Falls | Jonathan Liebesman | 2003 | 19 | 4.0 | No |
| Dead Silence | James Wan | 2007 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Death of a Vlogger | Graham Hughes | 2019 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
| Deliver Us From Evil | Scott Derrickson | 2014 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Demonic | Will Canon | 2015 | 17 | 4.0 | Yes |
| Don’t Hang Up | Damien Macé, Alexis Wajsbrot | 2016 | 4 | 4.0 | No |
| Don’t Listen (Voces) | Ángel Goméz Hernández | 2020 | 27 | 4.5 | Yes |
| Drag Me To Hell | Sam Raimi | 2009 | 23 | 4.5 | No |
| Evil Dead | Fede Alvarez | 2013 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| Evil Dead II | Sam Raimi | 1987 | 27 | 4.0 | No |
| Exorcist: The Beginning | Renny Harlin | 2004 | 17 | 4.0 | No |
| Extraterrestrial | Colin Minihan | 2014 | 30 | 4.5 | No |
| Flatliners | Niels Arden Oplev | 2017 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| Freddy vs. Jason | Ronny Yu | 2003 | 24 | 4.0 | No |
| Friday the 13th | Marcus Nispel | 2009 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
| Friend Request | Simon Verhoeven | 2016 | 21 | 4.0 | Yes |
| Gehenna: Where Death Lives | Hiroshi Katagiri | 2016 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| Ghost Stories | Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman | 2017 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
| Ghostland | Pascal Laugier | 2018 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
| Grave Encounters | Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz | 2011 | 12 | 4.0 | No |
| Haunt | Scott Beck & Bryan Woods | 2019 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Hell Fest | Gregory Plotkin | 2018 | 28 | 5.0 | No |
| Host | Rob Savage | 2020 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
| House of Wax | Jaume Collet-Serra | 2005 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Insidious | James Wan | 2010 | 24 | 5.0 | No |
| Insidious: Chapter 2 | James Wan | 2013 | 22 | 4.0 | No |
| Insidious: Chapter 3 | Leigh Whannell | 2015 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Insidious: The Last Key | Adam Robitel | 2018 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| It | Andy Muschietti | 2017 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
| It Chapter Two | Andy Muschietti | 2019 | 24 | 4.0 | No |
| Ju On: The Final Curse | Masayuki Ochiai | 2015 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Last Shift | Anthony DiBlasi | 2014 | 17 | 4.0 | No |
| Lights Out | David F. Sandberg | 2016 | 19 | 4.5 | No |
| Lord of Illusions | Clive Barker | 1995 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Mirrors | Alexandre Aja | 2008 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Ouija | Stiles White | 2014 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Ouija: Origin of Evil | Mike Flanagan | 2016 | 18 | 4.0 | No |
| P2 | Franck Khalfoun | 2007 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Pandorum | Christian Alvart | 2009 | 13 | 4.0 | Yes |
| Paranormal Activity 3 | Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | 2011 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| Paranormal Activity 4 | Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost | 2012 | 21 | 3.5 | No |
| Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension | Gregory Plotkin | 2015 | 29 | 4.0 | No |
| Poltergeist – Extended Cut | Gil Kenan | 2015 | 22 | 4.0 | No |
| Poltergeist – Theatrical Cut | Gil Kenan | 2015 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
| Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2016 | 29 | 4.5 | No |
| Sadako 3D | Tsutomu Hanabusa | 2012 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Sadako 3D 2 | Tsutomu Hanabusa | 2013 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Scream 2 | Wes Craven | 1997 | 19 | 4.0 | No |
| Scream 3 | Wes Craven | 2000 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
| Shutter | Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom | 2004 | 11 | 4.0 | Yes |
| Silent Hill: Revelation | Michael J. Bassett | 2012 | 22 | 4.0 | No |
| Sinister | Scott Derrickson | 2012 | 17 | 5.0 | No |
| Sinister 2 | Ciarán Foy | 2015 | 19 | 4.0 | No |
| Summer of 84 | Anouk Whissell, François Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell | 2018 | 19 | 4.0 | No |
| The Amityville Horror | Andrew Douglas | 2005 | 17 | 4.0 | No |
| The Burning | Tony Maylam | 1981 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
| The Cleansing Hour | Damien LeVeck | 2019 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
| The Conjuring | James Wan | 2013 | 12 | 4.0 | Yes |
| The Conjuring 2 | James Wan | 2016 | 22 | 5.0 | No |
| The Crazies | Breck Eisner | 2010 | 18 | 4.0 | No |
| The Crucifixion | Xavier Gens | 2017 | 19 | 4.5 | No |
| The Curse of La Llorona | Michael Chaves | 2019 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| The Den | Zachary Donohue | 2013 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
| The Descent | Neil Marshall | 2005 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| The Descent: Part 2 | Jon Harris | 2009 | 20 | 5.0 | No |
| The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | 1981 | 22 | 4.0 | No |
| The Gallows | Travis Cluff & Chris Lofing | 2015 | 21 | 4.0 | No |
| The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu | 2004 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
| The Grudge | Nicholas Pesce | 2020 | 19 | 4.0 | No |
| The Haunting in Connecticut | Peter Cornwell | 2009 | 26 | 4.5 | No |
| The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia | Tom Elkins | 2013 | 32 | 5.0 | No |
| The Lazarus Effect | David Gelb | 2015 | 18 | 4.5 | No |
| The Messengers | Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | 2007 | 27 | 4.5 | No |
| The Nun | Corin Hardy | 2018 | 21 | 4.5 | No |
| The Possession of Michael King | David Jung | 2014 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| The Prowler | Joseph Zito | 1981 | 23 | 4.5 | No |
| The Pyramid | Grégory Levasseur | 2014 | 14 | 4.0 | Yes |
| The Quiet Ones | John Pogue | 2014 | 23 | 4.0 | No |
| The Shed | Frank Sabatella | 2019 | 16 | 4.5 | No |
| The Strangers | Bryan Bertino | 2008 | 16 | 4.5 | No |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Tobe Hooper | 1986 | 6 | 4.0 | No |
| The Ward | John Carpenter | 2010 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| The Wolfman | Joe Johnston | 2010 | 18 | 4.0 | No |
| The Woman in Black | James Watkins | 2012 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | Tom Harper | 2014 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
| Them | David Moreau, Xavier Palud | 2006 | 16 | 4.0 | No |
| Underwater | William Eubank | 2020 | 15 | 4.0 | No |
| Urban Legend | Jamie Blanks | 1998 | 17 | 4.0 | No |
| V/H/S/2 | Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard | 2013 | 14 | 4.0 | No |
| Viral | Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | 2016 | 20 | 4.0 | No |
| White Noise 2: The Light | Patrick Lussier | 2007 | 24 | 4.5 | No |
| Winchester | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | 2018 | 17 | 4.0 | No |
| Z (2019) | Brandon Christensen | 2019 | 9 | 4.0 | No |