At high current density during the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) process, the active layer for most of MoS2-based electrocatalysts suffers from pulverizations and easily drops-off due to a high rate of bubble formation and strong stirring. Herein, a facile pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method is used to fabricate amorphous molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) films on gold-coated carbon cloth (Au/CC) for HER test. Because of the strong anchoring interaction between MoS2 catalysts and the Au/CC substrate during the underlying laser ablation process, remarkable stability with 5000 continuous HER cycles has been achieved in the acid media. Furthermore, the as-obtained MoS2 catalyst shows a small Tafel slope of 48 mV decade(-1), an onset overpotential of 132 mV and the overpotential of 180 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm(-2). These results demonstrate that PLD is a very promising technique for making the film electrodes for application in electrocatalytic process. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.