10 Horror Movie Jump Scares That You NEVER Forget
3. Friday The 13th - The Lake
Outside of avid horror fans, many people tend to forget what the Friday the 13th series set to be. In fact, the film appeared to set up a supernatural element, alluding to Jason Vorhees, the unfortunate drowning victim that could not be saved due to negligence, as a killer from beyond the grave.
Camp personnel are killed off one-by-one in increasingly gruesome fashion (including an all-timer carried out against a young Kevin Bacon) before final girl Alice comes face-to-face with Pamela Vorhees. Yes, it was Jason's mother who had chosen to carry out a bloody revenge plot against those who had chosen to open the camp where her son had died.
Clashing with the deranged mother, Alice succesfully defends herself by decapitating Pamela with a machete, ending the horror. The sole survivor, she sets out on a canoe onto Crystal Lake. Soft synthesized keyboard tones swell as she awakes the next morning, looking back on the horror she's endured, only to be interrupted by a monstrosity emerging from the lake behind her. Jason Vorhees had returned, disfigured and monstrous, and grappled Alice, dragging her into the lake.
Alice leaps awake with a start, only to realize she's in a hospital suffering from a nightmare. Ultimately, however, it was the audience who was truly in a nightmare, as they had just bore witness to the debut of one of the most notorious movie monsters in horror history.