Study ranks the scariest movies
Study ranks horror films' scariness by viewers' average heart rate:
🥇 Sinister
🥈 Insidious
🥉 The Conjuring
4️⃣ Hereditary
5⃣ Paranormal Activity
6⃣ It Follows
7⃣ The Conjuring 2
8⃣ The Babadook
9⃣ The Descent
🔟 The Visit
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The scientific study tracked heart rates throughout some of the world's most iconic horror films, to study the science of scary, and find the undisputed scariest horror film of all time.
The team studied critic's lists and Reddit recommendations to curate 50 of the best horror films ever made, before subjecting them to test subjects.
Watching each movie in 5.1 surround sound, the panel of 50 people consumed over 120 hours of horror movies, each fitted with a heart rate monitor to measure which movies got their blood pumping the most to find the ultimate horror movie.
The winner ended up being sinister, from 2012. The subjects average heart rate while resting was 65 BPM, 86 BPM while watching the movie and the highest spike was of 131 BPM during the scariest parts.
Other movies in the ranking include insidious (#2), hereditary (#4), it follows (#6) and the ring (#11).
With the movies with the highest spikes of BPM being insidious, sinister, the exorcist 3, the conjuring and the descent.
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