The Best Movie Jump-Scares of All Time — IndieWire Critics Survey

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.

(The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)Last weekend saw the release of “A Quiet Place,” the premise of which is a fiendishly clever mechanism for celebrating the time-honored art of the jump-scare.

Some of us love them, some of us don’t, but there’s no denying that they get the job done.In that light, we ask: What’s the greatest jump-scare of them all?Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko), Pajiba / Riot Material“Jaws.” There’s no jump scare as thrilling and iconic as when the shark pops out of the water while Brody is grousing and shoveling chum.

Spielberg abandons that chilling theme that played as warning that the beast was coming.

He breaks the

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