50 Scariest Movies of All Time - Updated From Science of Scare Project (Men's Journal) - Page 2

"The ranking is the fourth annual report from broadbandchoices Science of Scare Project. Researchers equipped 250 participants with heart monitors which recorded their reactions as they watched hundreds of hours of spooky movies. The scores are determined based on heart rate, as well as heart rate variance, and then are assigned a "Scare Score" out of a possible 100. As a point of comparison, the animated movie 'Shrek' has a Scare Score of three out of 100, Science of Scare shared via Daily Mail. With a Scare Score of 96 out of 100, Sinister was determined to be the scariest movie of all time. It was previously voted the scariest movie of all time in 2020, before being unseated two years in a row by trendy Zoom-horror 'Host' (which fell to No. 2 this year). 'Our audience experienced a 34% uplift in heart rate when watching [Sinister], from 64 BPM up to 86 BPM across the movie, with the film's scariest moment sending hearts pounding to 131 BPM." - mensjournal.com