Three of his movies made in onto the list: Insidious, The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring 2 (2016). In first place stands James Wan, who has gained a lot of fame during the past decade among horror lovers. The Science of Scare Project has also picked the “Devilish Directors” – directors with more than one entry on their list. Insidious was also determined to be the film with the biggest jump scare, having spiked to 133 BPM during the scene – if you’ve seen it, you probably know which one I’m speaking of.

The second place has been taken by Scott Derrickson’s Sinister (2012) with 86 BPM, followed by Insidious (dir. “Until someone makes a film about a haunted sourdough starter, this ingenious horror movie will remain the zeitgeistiest thing to emerge from lockdown,” wrote Philip De Semlyen, Top Critic on Rotten Tomatoes. It is rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 72% audience score. Host is a pandemic-style feature taking place during a Zoom meeting between friends. Rob Savage, 2020), the average heart rate throughout the film went up to 88 BPM, which was the highest recorded rise in all the films included in the experiment. The test subjects’ resting average heart rate was 64 beats per minute (BPM), but when watching Host (dir. The data was collected by measuring the heart rates of 250 people subjected to watching over 100 hours of horror films, chosen from the most popular and the most critically-acclaimed movies.

The project was first created in 2020 by Broadband Choices to determine the scariest movie of all time, based on science. The Science of Scare 2022 update has been published on October 5 with a new list of top 30 most terrifying films ever made.

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