Top 3 Restaged Jump Scares in Horror History

With the new version of It hitting theatres later this year and its ultra-intense trailer already giving us nightmares, we thought it was high time to revisit one of our favourite topics here at Krakit Vancouver Escape Game: the jump scare.

Some horror films and thrillers get away without featuring a jump scare, but where’s the fun in that? Being on the edge of your seat and literally jumping out of it is part of what makes scary movies so addictive.

So, without further ado, here are our top three favourite jump scares that you already know are coming. Yet, whether it's from a remake that restages a jump scare from the original or a sequel that leans heavily on the original, these jump scares still do the trick.

3. The Thing (1982/2011)

Maybe it’s John Carpenter’s original 1982 version starring Kurt Russell or maybe it’s the CGI-heavy 2011 remake that does it for you. In any case, when it comes to The Thing, the alien creature’s habit of popping out of where you least expect—whether an ice block or a human chest—is sure to get your heart racing.

2. The Blair Witch Project (1999) / Blair Witch (2016)

Sure, the new Blair Witch film is basically like a shot-for-shot remake of the original, but that also includes repeating its best jump scare. Fancy staring into a corner in a super creepy house for all eternity, anyone?

1. It (1990/2017)

Right, we know we’ve only seen the trailer for the 2017 film, but Pennywise has already managed to do it again. Whether it’s Tim Curry in the original 1990 TV version or Bill Skarsgård in the forthcoming movie, the anticipation of seeing Pennywise’s horrible painted face appear in that sewer grate is almost too much to bear.



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Deep Freeze!! Top 3 Wintry Escape Scenes From The Cinema

Vancouver has been thrown into the deep freeze!

A cold front has swooped down from the Arctic, crippling the city. Traditional zen lotus-eaters are losing their minds in traffic, lineups for winter tires are two-blocks long and yoga classes across the lower mainland have been suspended; it is pure chaos in the rainy city!

With more snow on its way, the Krakit team are preparing for a full-out winter assault. And what better way to prepare for snowmageddon then a light-hearted review of our favourite snow-bound escape movie scenes?

Here are our top three wintery escape scenes from the cinema:

3. The Spy Who Loved Me

Roger Moore, as James Bond, is up to no-good in an Austrian chalet when Queen and Country calls. Leaving a fair maiden (double-agent) wanting Moore, Bond dons a Ronald McDonald ski suit and heads out the door. The fair maiden shows her true hair-colour and calls in a ski attack.

With four armed agents in pursuit, Bond does some epic glacier skiing. His path takes him through a narrow ice shoot, he fires a ski pole rocket at one of his enemies and he pulls off a backflip half twist before skiing off a mountainside.

Of course Roger Moore was never on skis in Austria, but neither were the stuntmen. The entire sequence was filmed in Nunavut, Canada on Asgard Peak on Baffin Island.

The final cherry on the escape is the parachute design - a giant Union Jack flag. Well-done James.

2. The Empire Strikes Back

By far the best film of the Star Wars series (fingers-crossed for Rogue One), Empire starts on the icy planet of Hoth. After investigating a meteor (probe droid), Luc is sucker-punched by a snow beast. The young Jedi is taken back to the Wampa's layer where he is imprisoned in ice foot shackles.

Upon waking, Luc tries desperately to free himself before remembering that he has this wonderful gift called the force. Using Yoda's lessons, Luc is able to summon his light sabre from across the ice cave, cut off his shackles and slice the arm off his captor.

I guess with the force any Vancouver Escape Room might seem like a kids ballroom. But then again, maybe not...

1. The Thing

John Carpenter's The Thing is a sci-fi classic. The film includes aliens, a wintery locale on Antarctica and the always-entertaining action star, Kurt Russel. More of a mystery (who-done-it) tale then the other two films, The Thing has a group of scientists and remote technicians wondering who is the assimilated alien in the group. The snow flies, the crew accepts their fate and one-by-one the infected are killed off.

The final scene has MacCready and Childs share a drink, while the research station burns in the snowy background. Both men suspect the other of being infected, but with nothing left to fight for, a thin possibility of survival and the doomed fate of mankind looming off-screen, the two choose to let the time run out, leaving the audience guessing as to who was human.

And If you brave enough to stand the cold, come out to our Vancouver Escape Room! You might be shivering, but it won't be from the cold!