Jake Gyllenhaal might have suspected that when Ellen DeGeneres invited him on her show to talk about Nightcrawler and the other dark films he has been attracted to in recent years, that she was going to pull a scare on him, but it sure didn’t seem like it.

Watch Jake get a pre-Halloween fright, AFTER THE JUMP….

They also had a less shock-inducing discussion about his weight loss for Nightcrawler: