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October 28, 2025 1 min

According to real-life data, these are officially the scariest Halloween movies! A study was conducted by The Science of Scare Project who had participants wear heart monitors to track their heartbeat throughout each movie screening and here's where they landed:

5. The Conjuring (2013): Based on a true story, two paranormal investigators help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their new farmhouse.

4. Insidious (2010): A family tries to save their son after he falls into a coma and becomes trapped in a dark spirit realm called the Further.

3. Skinamarink (2022): Two kids wake up in the middle of the night to find their dad missing and all the doors and windows in their house gone.

2. Host (2020): Six friends host a séance over Zoom during lockdown—and accidentally invite something terrifying into their homes.

1. Sinister (2012): A true-crime writer moves his family into a house with a dark past and finds home movies that reveal a string of gruesome murders.

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So these are the scariest movies according to Science A
few weeks ago. Science Science, Science, a few weeks ago,
we give you the scariest horror movies ever, like a list.
But the Science of Scare Project has participants where heart monitors.
So this is an organization that tests scare. You wear
the heart monitor and see what it does to your heart,
jumps it up and down, and that's.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
How they come up with so the conjuring.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
For example, these are some of the scariest movies based
on a true story, which also is scary. True paranormal
investigators help a family terrorized by a dark presence in
their new farmhouse.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's at number five. All of those are the heart
rate meter. I'm out.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I love a true story story if it's a thriller,
but not a horror movie.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Okay, now insidious this is hours ago.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
This was number four on your heart rate monitor when
they test the people's heart rate.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
But do you see what number one is? Let's see
skin them a rink. I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Skin mark was number three on your heart goes race
the fastest scary movie charts.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
What's it about kids?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Says here? They wake up in the middle of the
night and find their dad missing. No, yes, and all
the doors in the windows in their house are gone.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Why would they want to put your body through the
Watch the news? How did I miss skin a Marinki
dinky ink? Watch the current Events? You know you don't
need this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Our host is number two and number one on the
When you look at the heart monitor rate when they
tested everybody, I'm Scary movies, Sinister was the one that
got the heart race in the most. A true crime
writer right moves his family into a house with a
dark past and finds home movies that reveal a string
of gruesome murders.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Those last three I have not seen it. I am excited.
You're on air with Ryan Seacrest.

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