These are the top 5 scenes that any Jurassic World fan would rewatch without any guilt 

Jurassic World is arguably one of the most iconic cinematic franchises in Hollywood. That's why fans often come back to the franchise with claws out, teeth bared. This isn’t just nostalgia, it’s a muscle memory wrapped in thunder, sweat, and some of the most exciting beasts in the world. And the scenes we keep coming back to? They’re guilty pleasures. They’re some of the scariest, wildest depictions of dinosaurs in the franchise, and that's exactly why we love them.

Although it's difficult to pick favorites when it comes to Jurassic World, here's a curated list of the five best scenes in the franchise that we keep coming back to, without any guilt.

5) Claire Hiding From the Therizinosaurus- Jurassic World Dominion

Claire Dearing’s plunge into the mist-soaked jungle in Jurassic World: Dominion quickly turns from descent to dread. The air is heavy, the forest deathly still, until something ancient and monstrous begins to move. Enter the Therizinosaurus, a towering nightmare of feathers, fog, and claws as long as scythes. It doesn’t roar. It doesn’t chase. It listens. It waits. And Claire? She doesn’t run, she sinks, inch by inch, into a shallow pool, barely breathing as the creature’s razor talons sweep just inches from her skull. The Therizinosaurus, blind but hypersensitive, becomes less a dinosaur and more a creeping force of nature.

Talking about her experience filming, the actress who played Claire, Bryce Dallas Howard, has told the Irish Independent,

“When you’re working with an animatronic it’s a completely different experience than when you’re, say, responding based off of a tennis ball that’s like totally inert in space, and you’re needing to pretend that it’s chasing you. An animatronic is basically a giant robot that’s puppeteered by dozens of people. It’s extraordinary to be in the midst of one of these creatures because you’re looking at it and your brain is like ‘that’s a real dinosaur’ – you can’t help but be terrified.”

4) Maisie's little adventure with the Raptor- Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

That scene where Maisie is stalked by the Indoraptor is a straight-up nightmare fueling in a slow, creeping dread that settles in your bones. Claire and Owen may have dealt with chaos before, but this? This was personal. At Lockwood Manor, Maisie is being hunted. That shot where it reaches its claw out to her in bed? Pure gothic horror. It's one of the darkest scenes in the franchise. It’s a child trying to shut the door on a monster, and knowing it might not be enough.

Talking about the scene, writer J.A. Bayona told Collider,

"Well, it's very important when you sit down and read the script, and then you find that there is a very specific tone. I mean, you have volcanoes and dinosaurs, and then you have a big auction in a Gothic mansion, so you really need to find the tone to make that work. Talking about the ending, it feels like the classic ending of a fairy tale, of a Gothic story, like finishing at the top of the castle with the princess in the tower and the dragon chasing the little girl. It had this kind of tone that I really like. It felt fun. It felt like something I wanted to see, and this is your instinct telling you, "Yes, I want to see that.""

3) Zara And a Pterosaur Being Eaten By the Mosasaurus - Jurassic World

The moment Zara is yanked into the sky by a pterosaur and then devoured mid-air by the Mosasaurus in Jurassic World is no polished VFX show, it’s pure, primal panic. One second she’s walking through the park, maybe a little overwhelmed, definitely not prepared for a prehistoric ambush. Then suddenly: wings, screeches, chaos. A shriek cuts the air as a pterosaur rips her upward, feet dangling, her body weightless against the blur of wings and wind. And before you can even wonder if she'll be saved by the beast, a Mosasaurus emerges and gobbles up both of them. She’s tossed like confetti between monsters that were never meant to fly over humans.

Talking about her death, Colin Trevorro told Empire,

"We felt, 'Alright, let's make it the most spectacular death we can possibly imagine - let's involve multiple animals from sea and air...' I love this moment so much. We're playing on the audience's expectation and jadedness. You drop her in the water and immediately everyone goes, 'Oooh, I know what's going to happen.' But you don't. Then the 'birds' start coming in and you get distracted by that and suddenly [it] happens."

2) Mosasaurus Vs Helicopter: Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

The opening scene of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom kicks the door down with a storm, a scream, and a splash the size of a building. It’s night, rain’s pouring like the sky’s in meltdown, and a crew of mercenaries are dangling over the Mosasaurus lagoon like bait on a string. Their mission? Retrieve a bone from the Indominus rex. Simple. Clean. Except the ocean still has teeth. And then it happens. The Mosasaurus comes out of that inky black water like the ocean itself is coughing up a monster. It’s massive, mythic, a shadow with teeth.

One second, the guy on the rope ladder is yelling into the storm. The next, he’s gone. One man hangs from a rope ladder beneath the helicopter, thinking he’s seconds from safety. Instead, he becomes an appetizer. The Mosasaurus explodes out of the black water, snatching him midair in a single, merciless bite. It’s not just a scare, it’s a power play. The Mosasaurus doesn’t return as a leftover from the last movie. It returns as the ocean’s apex. The scene isn’t here to warm you up, it’s here to say: the rules are gone, the cages are broken, and the monsters are rewriting the food chain. Welcome back.

1) The ultimate battle between the beasts - Jurassic World

The Indominus rex wasn’t just built to kill, it was built to rule. A Frankenstein fusion of the fiercest traits in the fossil record, this lab-spawned monster came equipped with infrared vision, chameleon skin, and arms that looked like they could bench-press a bus. Early in the chaos of Jurassic World, it tore through everything in its path, including a full-grown ankylosaurus and a helpless security system. But it truly flexed when it took on Rexy, the park’s original queen.

Just when Rexy looked down for the count, Blue the Raptor entered springing from the ruins to remind the Indominus that smarts beat size. Together, raptor agility and tyrannosaur rage pushed the hybrid back, right to the edge of the lagoon. And then? The Mosasaurus rose like a sea monster summoned by nature itself. One bone-crunching splash, and the Indominus was yanked under, silenced mid-roar.

The scene was more than just a brawl, it was a spectacle of balance being restored. No human creation could survive against the raw, primal force of the real ancient rulers. Brains, brawn, and waterlogged terror united in what remains the most pulse-pounding, crowd-cheering finale in the franchise.

All the Jurassic World movies are available to watch on Prime Video.