Highest-Rated Movies about 'Jump Scare'

Get Out (2017), The Evil Dead (1981), The Conjuring 2 (2016), Doctor Sleep (2019), The Descent (2005), What We Did on Our Holiday (2014), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jump Scare movies.

#17. Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

Storyline: 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.—Warner Bros. Pictures

Plot Keywords: haunted house, crucifix, wedding dress, jump scare, teenage girl, babysitter, music box ...

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#18. The Red Shoes (2005)

Storyline: After finding that her husband is unfaithful and cheats her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a decadent cheap apartment at Goksung Station with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While traveling home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of red shoes and brings them home. Tae-soo becomes fascinated by the shoes, which brings greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, while Sun-jae has visions and nightmares with ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. Meanwhile, the architect decorator Cho-in Choi that is dating Sun-jae, researches and discloses that the mystery is related to a picture of 1944. His further investigation unravels the tragic fate of the original owner of the shoes.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: shoes, curse, 1940s, year 1944, ghost, jealousy, subway ...

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#19. The Purge (2013)

Storyline: In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.

Plot Keywords: violence, mother daughter relationship, survival, knife, class differences, killing spree, one night ...

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#20. Whisper (2007)

Storyline: When the eight-year-old son, David, of a wealthy New England socialite is abducted, his kidnapper Max Harper and his seedy associates assume it will be a routine kidnapping in exchange for a large ransom. Unknown to the kidnappers, the shy and reserved David actually has a hidden agenda of his own, and a mysterious way of tapping into the minds of others. Soon, Max will wish that he had never kidnapped David, much less even heard of him.—Scripts

Plot Keywords: winter, spider, evil child, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, axe, shotgun, child kidnapping ...

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#21. Criminal Law (1988)

Storyline: A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: murder, rain, two word title, reference to friedrich nietzsche, murder of an innocent person, gynecologist, gagged ...

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#23. Annabelle (2014)

Storyline: John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle.

Plot Keywords: murder, prequel, spin off, self sacrifice, suicide, catholic, camera ...

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#24. You Should Have Left (2020)

Storyline: The stressed and jealous middle-aged banker Theo is married with the young actress Susanna and they have a six-year-old daughter, Ella. Theo is a hated man since he was accused of drowning his first wife, but he was considered not guilty by the justice. Out of the blue, they decide to travel on vacation to a huge, isolated house in the Welsh countryside to resolve the problems in their relationship. But soon they have nightmares and Theo believes something evil is hidden in the house.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: escape attempt, village, the devil, purgatory, family vacation, stalker, missing girl ...

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#25. The Nun (2018)

Storyline: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order's unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in 'The Conjuring 2,' as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

Plot Keywords: priest, nun, spin off, romania, buried alive, demonic possession, mysterious death ...

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#26. Cult of Chucky (2017)

Storyline: After accused of murdering her family, Nica is taken to an asylum and thinks that she's the cause of the deaths of her family. However, when grisly deaths start to occur, she then realizes that Chucky, her illusion might not be make believe. She also finds out that the doll is slowly starting to possess anyone or anything to join a huge cult to kill off Chucky's victims, but things don't go to well in the asylum, including for Chucky's long lost friend, Andy, who tries to stop the cult from getting bigger while also trying to get past Chucky's wife, "Tiffany."

Plot Keywords: electroshock therapy, sequel, killer doll, strait jacket, decapitation, wheelchair, throat slitting ...

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#27. The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)

Storyline: A shuddering exorcism spins out of control and claims the life of a young girl. Months later, while working the night shift at the hospital morgue, Megan Reed receives a disfigured corpse. Alone and locked in the corridors of the cold basement, she starts to experience hair-raising visions, which lead her to suspect that the dead body delivered that night is possessed by a ruthless evil entity.—Domingo Alvarez

Plot Keywords: demon, hospital, corpse, demonic possession, morgue, fingerprint, dead body ...

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#28. Don't Knock Twice (2016)

Storyline: The sculptor Jess unsuccessfully tries to retrieve the custody of her teenage daughter Chloe. During the night, Chloe and her boyfriend Danny play a prank challenging an urban legend: and they knock twice on the door of the witch Mary Aminov. Soon Danny is hunted down by a fiend and vanishes. When Chloe is haunted by the evil spirit, she flees to the house of her estranged mother and her husband Ben to stay with her mother. Soon the demon finds her and haunts the house while Ben is traveling. Jess' model Tira sees darkness around Chloe and she researches the Internet about the mystery. Meanwhile Detective Boardman is investigating the disappearance of Danny and suspects Jess is manipulating her troubled daughter.

Plot Keywords: mother daughter relationship, drawing, knocking on a door, door knocker, holding hands, poltergeist, levitation ...

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#29. Like.Share.Follow (2017)

Storyline: Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue...or to stalking, obsession and madness.

Plot Keywords: dream sequence, visit, visitor, writing on a mirror, evil woman, motel, motel room ...

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#30. Tormented (2009)

Storyline: The head girl Justine gives a speech on the funeral of the teenage schoolmate Darren Mullet who has just committed suicide but she does not recall who he was. Then she is invited by Alexis to date him in the celebration party in the house of his friend Bradley. Soon Justine discovers that Darren had a crush on her and was bullied by Bradley and his friends including Alexis. When each one of Bradley's friends is found dead, they discover that Darren has returned from beyond to revenge the humiliations he was submitted to.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: bare butt, revenge, bullying, ghost, bully, secretly observing, hypocrisy ...

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