if you think "being scared" is all about "jump scares" then you really need to broaden you horizon. Some of the best scary movies do not rely on jump scares, but creating the right kind of atmosphere and a sense of foreboding. Jump scares is the cheap and dirty way of scary movies, you do not need to be a great film maker to make them, but to do a scary movie without them requires craftsmanship.


I could also add "Let the right one in" (original Swedish version - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/) to the list.

Then don't watch The Conjuring (2013) because there are some jump scares in it, definitely!
Believe me, I just saw it ;)

Bram Stoker's Dracula of 1992 directed by Coppola.

And Shadow of the Vampire.

(Both Vampire movies I know just watching these I see the true scary factor of Vampires)

Jacob's Ladder - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/

Great call. Indeed an epic horror movie of weight and splendor. Speaking of epic horror movies, Kubricks The Shinning, one of my favorite movies. And speaking of vampires, Interview with the Vampire.

More thrillers but the Silence of the Lambs and Manhunter. Wouldn't be stretching too far to put them in the horror genre. Or you could go even more nasty with Henry and Last House on the Left, but we won't go there.

Or slightly comical, Return of the Living Dead, The Frighteners and Fright Night. I remember them being more story rather than jump scares. The new Fright Night is not all bad either.

Saw. Se7en (also getting close to horror so, f**k it, definitely watch it). Pan's Labyrinth also getting close to horror. Child's Play probably has less jump scares than you might think, Chucky does pop out sometimes though.

The Blair Witch Project

It doesn't have any jump scares.

or any non jump scares.

It doesn't have any scares.

I want my money back; god knows I'll never get my 80 minutes back.

Rob Zombies Halloween in a terrible evil trashy kind of way, I happen to like being brutalized by horror movies, it's kind of the whole point.

I absolutely hated that version.

I didn't think it was bad. It wasn't great, or really even good, but it wasn't bad. His sequel was unwatchable.

Zombies masterpiece to this point is The Devil's Rejects.

Too much white trash, too much cursing, way too much trash for my liking, especially for a "halloween" movie.

And they felt the need to explain EVERYTHING.

It's a thing of beauty. Completely unwholesome, the very meaning of being evil and repulsed, I love it.

Standards have certainly dropped since '78...

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was '74. You are incorrect. :P

Been years and years since I've seen that, but I don't even think that was as trashy and curse ridden.

As per the director's quote- It was never meant to be a horror movie.

Just a suspense and adventure one.

Its the fans that gave it the tag "horror movie.

Movies without jump scares- The Mummy starring brendan fraser, its sequels.
The exorcist.