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"Poltergeist" (1982).
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HunchBluntley: The Others was a really good old-fashioned supernatural thriller. I think it has a couple of what could be considered jump scares, but mostly it's just a mysterious and tense build-up until the end.
I second The Others.
"Morozko" 1964
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Stooner: Braindead
To be fair, I'm not quite sure I'd call that a horror movie

At least up until the end that is
The Sixth Sense

Carnival of Souls

The Exorcist (while the backward spider crawl, the 360 head spin, and the spewing of pea soup are creepy, I don't think they classify as jump scares).

The Haunting from 1963 (not the horrid 1993 remake)

The Uninvited

The Innocents (and people wonder why I dislike children)
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Devspar: Cause I hate jump scares... so much...
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timppu: Ok then, have you considered.... BOOOOO!

Just checking.

Jacob's Ladder is pretty good, horror drama. Well, I guess it has a couple of surprising moments, but they are more like haunting than someone screaming at your ear all of a sudden.

Also, it has Macaulay Culkin in it. Scary, huh?
I'm another one who was going to recommend this one.

It isn't scary though, if that's a problem. I do find the bathtub sequence horrifying, but that's more empathy towards a desperate person, rather than the scary type of horrifying.
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toothsaber: Movies without jump scares- The Mummy starring brendan fraser, its sequels.
If we're gonna list all the non-horror movies that don't have jump scares, this will become a very long thread. :P
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DaCostaBR: It isn't scary though, if that's a problem.
I consider it "horror drama" and maybe its main point is not to make you scared (but also to make you feel sad or blue), but I think it has several scary parts. Starting from the first train scene, "anybody home???", the trip to the operation room on a barrow etc.
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). For me it's the greatest horror movie ever made. Has one or two jump scares in it, but if anyone thinks it's a jump scare movie isn't paying attention. That movie goes deep, boys and girls. To just label it as 'gore porn' is to totally skip all of the wonderful depth to the material and performance.

Roger Ebert hated it, so it has that to recommend it as well.
Described as a Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller but:

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

Trailer (but some find the trailer tells too much): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7KHbJTmoo
I can kill the horror thingies in games... can't do so in movies...

Anyway, Jacob's Ladder, The Shining and Let The Right One In seems to be highly recommended. I think I'll start with those...
Did What Lies Beneath have jump scares? It's been a while. I just remember that I liked it.
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tinyE: 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.
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toothsaber: 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.
Problem is it doesn't have suspense or adventure as well. It's completely uninteresting and boring and only lived from the hype.
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seppelfred: I recommend It Follows (2014)
It's great movie, but if I remember correctly it had some jump scares.
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Devspar: Anyway, Jacob's Ladder, The Shining and Let The Right One In seems to be highly recommended. I think I'll start with those...
Great choices!
Post edited April 14, 2016 by PaterAlf
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HunchBluntley: The Others was a really good old-fashioned supernatural thriller. I think it has a couple of what could be considered jump scares, but mostly it's just a mysterious and tense build-up until the end.
That one is one the few that actually surprised me and also didn't told me everything about the movie in 10 minutes.

Freaks Of Nature (2015): More funny than "horror" really.

Devil: 5 people in an elevator - who's the devil? (highly recommended!)

Ghostship

As above so below

Trollhunter

Below (2002)

Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

Dolls (1987), Bad Taste (1987), Meet the Feebles (1989), Puppetmasters, House (1986) and The Gate

Insidious 1-3


Apollo 18 (2011), Europa Report (2013), Critters, Gremlins, Cargo (2009), Cube and Infini.(2015): Sci - fi horror

The Mangler, Trucks (Maximum Overdrive?), Christine: Steven King

The ABC's of Death 1 and 2: Directors from every corner of the world are given one letter of the alphabet to make a word and a short movie about it. Some hit and miss, but some of them are quite good actually. Some are rather nasty also.

Constantine

Pan's Labyrinth and Coraline: Not exactly horror, but very dark and creepy.

The Phantom of the Opera

"Abrupt change in image/sound/music"? That's like describing most movies since 1930's :-)

EDIT:
The Wraith (1986)

There's also one that I can't remember - it was an old car, black, that terrorized the roads. It's not the Car (1977) I think...
Post edited April 14, 2016 by sanscript
Split Second (1992)

Rutger Hauer nailed it in this one. One of my fav horror movies. Recommended.