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MANILA, Philippines – A luminescent full moon hangs in the dark sky. A howling wind blowing through the rustle of leaves in a forgotten garden on a cold and sad night. The sound of heavy footsteps shuffling down a dark hallway in the middle of the night. Moans and groans muffled behind a wall.
These are just a few spooky settings that can set the mood for a perfect night of horror. Yes folks, it’s Halloween and it’s time to see a horror movie, or two, three or more!
We all have fears (too many to mention here), no matter what age or courage we are. Believe it or not, some people enjoy being a little scared. This is why they love watching horror movies!
Different types of horror movies scare different types of people (and we have different thresholds of fear). But is there a movie that can be considered the scariest of all?
That’s what broadbandchoices.com (your “mobile, TV, internet experts”) was looking to find out through its Science of Scare project. Through a heart rate monitor, the study tracked the heart rates of 50 participants of different ages watching more than 100 hours of horror movies. So the faster the heart beat, the scarier the movie will be.
Choices were limited to the top 50 rated horror movies, according to IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Reddit (sorry, our own horror thrillers / chillers didn’t make the list), which were then narrowed down to what the studio scientifically believed. to be “the 35 scariest movies ever made”.
The studio’s creator, Daniel Clifford, said it was designed to help people find “the most scientifically terrifying movies ever made” to save them the time and hassle of searching through tons of titles on Amazon, Netflix and Shudder.
So what is the scariest movie of all? And the award for scariest movie goes to Sinister, a 2012 horror thriller starring Ethan Hawke, who plays a crime writer caught up in a network of gruesome family murders.
Note that before watching the movie, the participants’ average resting heart rate was 65 bpm (beats per minute), but it increased to 86 bpm while watching Sinister.
The story goes that crime writer Ellison Oswald (Ethan) stumbles upon a snuff movie that shows the mysterious death of a family. Seeking to solve this mystery, he moves his family to the home of the victims. He discovers a box in the attic containing a projector and several Super 8mm images, each of which is harmlessly labeled as home movies.
To Ellison’s horror, the footage shows the murder of different families in various ways (too gruesome to mention) and the presence of a strange, supernatural figure named Mr. Boogie, standing next to his victims. After each murder, one child from each family goes missing (which is why there was Sinister 2, which failed horribly at the box office because, according to one review, it was more cheesy than creepy). Soon, Ellison learns that living in this house could spell death for his family.
Low-budget Sinister (just $ 3 million) raised a whopping $ 87.7 million, making producers literally laugh at the bank. Quite a happy ending for such a gory movie!
The horror list goes on.
Second, just a shout out from Sinister, is Insidious, a 2010 American-Canadian supernatural horror film that revolves around a couple whose child falls into a coma and becomes a medium for a variety of astral entities. In one scene from the movie, the participants’ heart rate shot up to 133 bpm.
Completing magic, or tragic, 35 (based on your horror location, er, honor) are: The Conjuring (I started seeing this at my nephew’s condo in Canada but was too upset to finish it), Hereditary Activity, Paranormal, Follow , The Conjuring 2, The Babadook, The Descent, The Visit, The Ring, A Quiet Place, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 28 Days Later, The Exorcist, Hush, IT, Scream, The Grudge, The Witch, The Blair Witch Project, Alien, The Thing, Poltergeist (I couldn’t even look at the TV screen after that), Annabelle, Friday the 13th, The Orphanage, Dark Skies, Wolf Creek, The Omen, The Shining, Sal , Hearing.
It seems that classics like The Exorcist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre didn’t scare study participants as much as modern horror thrillers.
I remember seeing The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty’s 1973 supernatural horror film based on his novel. I was holding a rosary the whole time and I thought I should have brought a bottle of holy water to sprinkle inside the movie theater as well. The controversial film (surely for the faint of heart) was reported to have caused some viewers to pass out or vomit. Worse still, it even induced heart attacks inside theaters.
As for the infamous Freddy Krueger who spread terror on Elm Street, the study participants thought that this child killer with his razor-sharp gloves just couldn’t go on.
Immediately after The Exorcist, which was a huge success, was The Omen, which is said to be “the most cursed movie.” First, the plane for aerial filming crashed after takeoff, killing everyone on board. Then the animal trainer, who was brought to the zoo scene, was killed by a tiger. And then, too, John Richardson, the special events genius who executed the gruesome beheading scene, was in a horrible car accident. He survived, but sadly, his assistant Liz Moore was beheaded. The accident occurred in an area where a sign indicated the distance to the nearby town: Ommen, 66.6 km. The film was initially released on June 6, 1976.
Have a great Halloween everyone!
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