10 Most Shocking Jump Cuts In Horror Movie History

10. The Ring (2002) - "I Saw Her Face"

When it comes to horror remakes, especially of foreign cinema, you don’t get any better than Gore Verbinski’s English-language version of The Ring. By staying true to the original’s subdued and uneasy atmosphere, whilst sprinkling in some new ideas of his own, Verbinski crafted a chilling ghost story that was vastly different from American horror films at the time.

The film opens with two teenagers talking about a video rumoured to kill whoever watches in after seven days. While it’s assumed to be just an urban legend at first, we soon realise the stories are true when one of them is murdered by an unseen presence.

Skip to the teenager’s funeral and we meet the victim’s aunt, an investigative journalist named Rachel (Naomi Watts). We learn in a sombre conversation between her and the teenager’s mother that nobody can determine exactly how the 16-year-old died. The mother asks Rachel to uncover the truth, explaining that she “saw her face”.

It’s at this point the film deploys two swift jump cuts that reveal the teenager’s face distorted in frozen agony.

Catching viewers completely by surprise, this sudden scare only raises more questions about the lingering mysteries surrounding the ominous tape and its supernatural killer.