LOS ANGELES - What’s the scariest movie of all time? That answer might be subjective. However, entertainment company Broadband Choices recently decided to use science to find the answer.
In a recent study funded by the company called "The Science of Scare," published earlier this month and updated every year, researchers found 50 daring participants and subjected them to a torturous 120 hours of nail-biting horror in order to find which horror flicks pushed audiences to the edge.
In order to achieve this, researchers monitored viewers’ heart rates while watching popular scary movies. They wanted to know which films were the most successful at triggering the audience’s fight or flight mechanisms.
Each of the 50 films chosen for the study was picked based on critics’ reviews and presented in 5.1 surround sound to replicate the most immersive and blood-curdling experience a horror film can offer.