Top 10 scariest horror movies: a study by scientists

How do you know which movie terrifies audiences? Turns out, there’s a really simple, objective way to measure impressions.

For the study, 50 people were selected who watched 100 hours of the highest rated horror movies on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Reddit. During the experiments, each subject’s pulse was monitored. After that, a list of the 35 scariest horror movies was compiled, during which people’s hearts beat the most. Here are some of the top 10.

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The detective writer stumbles across documents in the attic that reveal a terrible secret: someone killed the entire family that lived in that house.

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After moving in, Josh and René encounter mysterious phenomena: strange voices echo through the house, objects move on their own. And soon their son Dalton falls into a coma…

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Ed and Lorraine Warren, who investigate paranormal cases, are approached by a family suffering from the tricks of an evil spirit. Very quickly, the detectives realize that they are facing the most powerful demonic entity of their entire career.

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Annie’s mother dies, and immediately after that, something strange begins to happen in the house. Very soon, Annie will find out: her family has terrible secrets.

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A young couple installs a permanent video camera in the house. Soon the spouses understand: next to them is an evil force that has already chosen its victim.

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No, we’re not talking about the adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel! The top ten was horror about a 19-year-old girl named Jay, who is tormented by strange visions and the feeling that someone or something is watching her.

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Ed and Lorraine Warren face a new case: this time, an evil spirit haunts a single mother and her four children.

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Amelia is raising her son without her husband, who died the day the child was born. One day, she reads a scary story about the Babadook to the boy, and soon the monster appears in their house.

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Six girls are trapped: lovers of extreme entertainment are imprisoned in underground caves due to a collapse. But they weren’t alone in the dark…

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Brother and sister are going to spend a week with their grandparents, whom they had never seen before – after all, their mother had been at odds with their parents for many years. But the old people, who looked so cute at first, start acting very strange…

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