Do you hate being constantly startled by loud noises, cats jumping out of nowhere, or scary faces popping up on the screen? Horror movies without jump scares can be difficult to find, particularly in the case of modern horror where jump scares are regularly used to deliver cheap thrills.
Luckily the team at Wheres The Jump? are here to help. We have compiled a list of over 100 horror, thriller, and sci-fi movies that contain at most 4 jump scares and therefore should be safe for viewers that are looking to avoid these moments.
| Movie Name | Director | Year | Jump Count | Jump Scare Rating | Netflix (US) | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | Zak Hilditch | 2017 | 2 | 1.0 | Yes | 6.5 |
| 1BR | David Marmor | 2019 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 5.8 |
| 8213: Gacy House | Anthony Fankhauser | 2010 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 3.2 |
| A Ghost Story | David Lowery | 2017 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 7.0 |
| A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Ana Lily Amirpour | 2014 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 7.1 |
| Altered States | Ken Russell | 1980 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.9 |
| Amnesiac | Michael Polish | 2015 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 4.3 |
| Annihilation | Alex Garland | 2018 | 4 | 1.5 | Yes | 6.9 |
| Antrum | David Amito, Michael Laicini | 2018 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 4.7 |
| Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | 2016 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.9 |
| Audition | Takashi Miike | 1999 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.2 |
| Backcountry | Adam MacDonald | 2014 | 4 | 0.5 | Yes | 6.1 |
| Before I Wake | Mike Flanagan | 2016 | 9 | 3.0 | Yes | 6.1 |
| Berberian Sound Studio | Peter Strickland | 2012 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.2 |
| Berlin Syndrome | Cate Shortland | 2017 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.3 |
| Bird Box | Susanne Bier | 2018 | 4 | 0.5 | Yes | 6.8 |
| Black Christmas | Bob Clark | 1974 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 7.2 |
| Blade | Stephen Norrington | 1998 | 1 | 1.0 | No | 7.1 |
| Bone Tomahawk | S. Craig Zahler | 2015 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 7.1 |
| Bram Stoker’s Dracula | Francis Ford Coppola | 1992 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.5 |
| Cam | Daniel Goldhaber | 2018 | 1 | 0.5 | Yes | 6.0 |
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | 1991 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 7.3 |
| Cargo | Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke | 2017 | 2 | 0.5 | Yes | 6.3 |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | 1976 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.4 |
| Carrie | Kimberly Peirce | 2013 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 5.9 |
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 7.4 |
| Color Out of Space | Richard Stanley | 2019 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.2 |
| Cube | Vincenzo Natali | 1997 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.3 |
| Cujo | Lewis Teague | 1983 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.0 |
| Cyberbully | Ben Chanan | 2015 | 1 | 1.0 | No | 7.0 |
| Dark Encounter | Carl Strathie | 2019 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 5.0 |
| Dark Shadows | Tim Burton | 2012 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.2 |
| Dead Alive | Peter Jackson | 1992 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 7.6 |
| Dead Calm | Phillip Noyce | 1989 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 6.8 |
| Deep Dark | Michael Medaglia | 2015 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 5.0 |
| Dementia | Mike Testin | 2015 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 5.0 |
| Devil | John Erick Dowdle | 2010 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 6.3 |
| Dismissed | Benjamin Arfmann | 2017 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 5.8 |
| Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | 2001 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 8.1 |
| Don’t Hang Up | Damien Macé, Alexis Wajsbrot | 2016 | 4 | 4.0 | No | 5.6 |
| Dracula Untold | Gary Shore | 2014 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.3 |
| Dream House | Jim Sheridan | 2011 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.0 |
| Dreamkatcher | Kerry Harris | 2020 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 3.8 |
| Eden Lake | James Watkins | 2008 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 6.8 |
| Emelie | Michael Thelin | 2015 | 3 | 0.5 | Yes | 5.4 |
| Enter the Void | Gaspar Noé | 2009 | 3 | 2.0 | No | 7.3 |
| Escape Room | Adam Robitel | 2019 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 6.3 |
| Europa Report | Sebastián Cordero | 2013 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.5 |
| Eyes Without a Face | Georges Franju | 1960 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.7 |
| Final Destination | James Wong | 2000 | 4 | 2.0 | Yes | 6.7 |
| Final Destination 2 | David R. Ellis | 2003 | 3 | 1.0 | Yes | 6.2 |
| Frailty | Bill Paxton | 2001 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 7.3 |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.6 |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 2007 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.5 |
| Gerald’s Game | Mike Flanagan | 2017 | 3 | 0.5 | Yes | 6.6 |
| Goodnight Mommy | Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | 2014 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.7 |
| Green Room | Jeremy Saulnier | 2015 | 1 | 0.5 | Yes | 7.2 |
| Guns Akimbo | Jason Lei Howden | 2020 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 6.3 |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | 2001 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.8 |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | 2007 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.2 |
| Here Alone | Rod Blackhurst | 2016 | 2 | 0.5 | Yes | 5.6 |
| Hidden | Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer | 2015 | 6 | 1.5 | No | 6.4 |
| Honeymoon | Leigh Janiak | 2014 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 5.6 |
| Horns | Alexandre Aja | 2013 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.5 |
| Horse Girl | Jeff Baena | 2020 | 1 | 0.5 | Yes | 5.9 |
| Hostel | Eli Roth | 2005 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 5.9 |
| Hotel Inferno | Giulio De Santi | 2013 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 4.7 |
| Hounds of Love | Ben Young | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.6 |
| Hour of the Wolf | Ingmar Bergman | 1968 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.7 |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | 1977 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 7.4 |
| I Am Not a Serial Killer | Billy O’Brien | 2016 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 6.2 |
| I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House | Oz Perkins | 2016 | 4 | 0.5 | Yes | 4.7 |
| In the Tall Grass | Vincenzo Natali | 2019 | 4 | 1.0 | Yes | 5.5 |
| Inside | Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | 2007 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.9 |
| Intruders | Adam Schindler | 2015 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 5.7 |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | 1978 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.4 |
| Jacob’s Ladder | Adrian Lyne | 1990 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.5 |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 1975 | 4 | 2.5 | No | 8.1 |
| Joy Ride | John Dahl | 2001 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.6 |
| Kill List | Ben Wheatley | 2011 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.3 |
| Knock Knock | Eli Roth | 2015 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 4.9 |
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | 2009 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 6.2 |
| Lake Mungo | Joel Anderson | 2008 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.1 |
| Let Me In | Matt Reeves | 2010 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.2 |
| Let The Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | 2008 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 8.0 |
| Ma | Tate Taylor | 2019 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 5.7 |
| Maggie | Henry Hobson | 2015 | 4 | 0.5 | No | 5.6 |
| Malice | Harold Becker | 1993 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 6.4 |
| May | Lucky McKee | 2002 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.7 |
| Mayhem | Joe Lynch | 2017 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.5 |
| Megan Is Missing | Michael Goi | 2011 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 4.9 |
| Midsommar | Ari Aster | 2019 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 7.4 |
| Misery | Rob Reiner | 1990 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.8 |
| Morgan | Luke Scott | 2016 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 5.9 |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2001 | 1 | 1.0 | No | 8.0 |
| My Friend Dahmer | Marc Meyers | 2017 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.5 |
| Nerve | Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | 2016 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.7 |
| Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | 2016 | 1 | 1.0 | No | 7.5 |
| Noroi: The Curse | Kôji Shiraishi | 2005 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.0 |
| One Hour Photo | Mark Romanek | 2002 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.8 |
| Only Lovers Left Alive | Jim Jarmusch | 2013 | 0 | 0.0 | Yes | 7.3 |
| Perfect | Eddie Alcazar | 2018 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 5.6 |
| Personal Shopper | Olivier Assayas | 2016 | 4 | 0.5 | No | 6.2 |
| Pet | Carles Torrens | 2016 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 5.7 |
| Pontypool | Bruce McDonald | 2008 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.7 |
| Prevenge | Alice Lowe | 2016 | 0 | 0.5 | No | 6.1 |
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 8.6 |
| Ravenous | Antonia Bird | 1999 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.1 |
| Raw | Julia Ducournau | 2016 | 3 | 1.0 | Yes | 7.1 |
| Re-Animator | Stuart Gordon | 1985 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.3 |
| Regression | Alejandro Amenábar | 2015 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 5.7 |
| Resolution | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | 2012 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.2 |
| Ringu 0: Birthday | Norio Tsuruta | 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.0 |
| Ringu 2 | Hideo Nakata | 1999 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 5.9 |
| Ringu: Kanzenban | Chisui Takigawa | 1995 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.3 |
| Rosemary’s Baby | Roman Polanski | 1968 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 8.0 |
| Sadako | Hideo Nakata | 2019 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 4.1 |
| Saw VI | Kevin Greutert | 2009 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.0 |
| Searching | Aneesh Chaganty | 2018 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 7.7 |
| Session 9 | Brad Anderson | 2001 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.5 |
| Seven | David Fincher | 1995 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 8.6 |
| Sleepy Hollow | Tim Burton | 1999 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.4 |
| Sphere | Barry Levinson | 1998 | 4 | 1.0 | Yes | 6.0 |
| Spiral | George Iida | 1998 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 5.2 |
| Split | M. Night Shyamalan | 2016 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.3 |
| Spring | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | 2014 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.6 |
| Stake Land | Jim Mickle | 2010 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.5 |
| Suspiria | Luca Guadagnino | 2018 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 7.1 |
| The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Alexandre Aja | 2016 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.3 |
| The ABCs of Death | 27 different directors | 2012 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 4.7 |
| The Abyss | James Cameron | 1989 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 7.6 |
| The Blackcoat’s Daughter | Osgood Perkins | 2015 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 5.9 |
| The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez | 1999 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.4 |
| The Boy | Craig Macneill | 2015 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 5.4 |
| The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | 2004 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.7 |
| The Canal | Ivan Kavanagh | 2014 | 4 | 2.0 | No | 5.9 |
| The Collector | Marcus Dunstan | 2009 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 6.4 |
| The Conspiracy | Christopher MacBride | 2012 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.4 |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.9 |
| The Craft | Andrew Fleming | 1996 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.3 |
| The Cropsey Incident | Julian Grant | 2017 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 3.4 |
| The Dead Don’t Die | Jim Jarmusch | 2019 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 5.6 |
| The Devil’s Backbone | Guillermo del Toro | 2001 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 7.5 |
| The Devil’s Rejects | Rob Zombie | 2005 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.9 |
| The Eyes of My Mother | Nicolas Pesce | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | Yes | 6.3 |
| The Final Destination | David R. Ellis | 2009 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 5.2 |
| The Fly | David Cronenberg | 1986 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 7.5 |
| The Fourth Kind | Olatunde Osunsanmi | 2009 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 5.9 |
| The Girl with All the Gifts | Colm McCarthy | 2016 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 6.8 |
| The Green Inferno | Eli Roth | 2013 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 5.3 |
| The Happening | M. Night Shyamalan | 2008 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 5.0 |
| The Harvest | John McNaughton | 2013 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 5.9 |
| The Haunting | Robert Wise | 1963 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 7.6 |
| The Heretics | Chad Archibald | 2017 | 4 | 1.5 | Yes | 4.7 |
| The Hole | Nick Hamm | 2001 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.2 |
| The House of the Devil | Ti West | 2009 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.4 |
| The Human Centipede – First Sequence | Tom Six | 2009 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 4.4 |
| The Hunt | Craig Zobel | 2020 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.4 |
| The Innocents | Jack Clayton | 1961 | 4 | 0.5 | No | 7.9 |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2017 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.0 |
| The Last House on the Left | Dennis Iliadis | 2009 | 4 | 0.5 | No | 6.6 |
| The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | 2019 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 7.7 |
| The Limehouse Golem | Juan Carlos Medina | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.4 |
| The Little Stranger | Lenny Abrahamson | 2018 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 5.6 |
| The Lodge | Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz | 2020 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 6.2 |
| The Love Witch | Anna Biller | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.2 |
| The Midnight Meat Train | Ryûhei Kitamura | 2008 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 6.2 |
| The Mothman Prophecies | Mark Pellington | 2002 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.5 |
| The Neighbor | Marcus Dunstan | 2016 | 3 | 1.0 | No | 5.3 |
| The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2016 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.2 |
| The Ninth Gate | Roman Polanski | 1999 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.7 |
| The Number 23 | Joel Schumacher | 2007 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.4 |
| The Omen | Richard Donner | 1976 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.6 |
| The Ones Below | David Farr | 2015 | 0 | 0.0 | Yes | 6.1 |
| The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | 2001 | 4 | 2.0 | No | 7.6 |
| The Perfection | Richard Shepard | 2019 | 1 | 0.5 | Yes | 6.1 |
| The Poughkeepsie Tapes | John Erick Dowdle | 2007 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.1 |
| The Return of the Living Dead | Dan O’Bannon | 1985 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.3 |
| The Ring Virus | Kim Dong-bin | 1999 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.1 |
| The Sacrament | Ti West | 2013 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.1 |
| The Sand | Isaac Gabaeff | 2015 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 3.8 |
| The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | 2017 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 7.3 |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 | 3 | 0.5 | Yes | 8.5 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 8.6 |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | 1974 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 7.5 |
| The Transfiguration | Michael O’Shea | 2016 | 2 | 1.0 | No | 5.9 |
| The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | 2004 | 4 | 1.0 | No | 6.5 |
| The Voices | Marjane Satrapi | 2014 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.3 |
| The Wailing | Na Hong-jin | 2016 | 4 | 1.0 | Yes | 7.5 |
| The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | 1973 | 4 | 0.5 | No | 7.6 |
| The Witch | Robert Eggers | 2015 | 4 | 1.5 | Yes | 6.8 |
| Thesis | Alejandro Amenábar | 1996 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.5 |
| They Look Like People | Perry Blackshear | 2015 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.1 |
| Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | 2007 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.2 |
| Train to Busan | Sang-ho Yeon | 2016 | 4 | 1.0 | Yes | 7.5 |
| Trash Fire | Richard Bates Jr. | 2016 | 0 | 0.0 | Yes | 5.8 |
| Tusk | Kevin Smith | 2014 | 0 | 0.0 | Yes | 5.4 |
| Unsane | Steven Soderbergh | 2018 | 2 | 0.5 | No | 6.7 |
| Van Helsing | Stephen Sommers | 2004 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 6.1 |
| Wait Until Dark | Terence Young | 1967 | 1 | 0.5 | No | 7.9 |
| Wildling | Fritz Böhm | 2018 | 4 | 1.5 | No | 5.5 |
| Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | 2005 | 0 | 0.0 | No | 6.3 |
| Would You Rather | David Guy Levy | 2012 | 3 | 1.0 | Yes | 5.8 |
| Zodiac | David Fincher | 2007 | 3 | 0.5 | No | 7.7 |
