According to reports, This Is The Scariest Horror Film Ever

Just in time for Halloween, science has revealed the scariest horror movie of all time: Sinister. 

It’s the question on everyone’s lips during the spooky season: what’s the most frightening film we can watch? Which movie will petrify us, make us jump out of our skin and huddle behind a pillow or under the sheets?

According a new study, 2012’s snuff nightmare is the answer, directed by Doctor Strange’s Scott Derrickson and starring Ethan Hawke.

The research comes from broadbandchoices’ ‘Science of Scare’ experiment, putting 50 people through 120 hours of horror movies in surround sound, ‘each fitted with a heart rate monitor to measure which movies got their blood pumping the most to find the ultimate horror movie and crown the king of fright night’.

Sinister produced the best results, with an average heart rate of 86bpm during the movie, a 32% increase from a resting rate of 65bpm. Its fiendish jump scares also produced a spike of 131bpm.