15 Best Jump Scares In Movie History

10. The Painting - The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring movies are packed with plenty of well-placed jump scares, though there's an especially terrific one in last year's sequel, as paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) follows a vision of the demon nun Valak into her home office.

There, she finds her husband Ed's (Patrick Wilson) painting of Valak that he made earlier in the movie, and a tape player starts blaring out music all by itself.

Valak then plays a series of tricks on an increasingly unsettled Lorraine, before a shadow of Valak walks across the walls of the office and appears to "inhabit" the Valak painting, before bursting out of the wall and running face first at Lorraine, growling, with the painting still in hand.

Though just about anyone who's seen a horror movie before knows that this scene would culminate in a huge scare, Wan managed to get an inventive jolt out of it, slow-bleeding the scene for maximum suspense before letting loose with all the loud noise and CGI-assisted effects.