People everywhere are feeling the spooky season vibes as they gear up for Halloween later this month. But if you need help getting into the scary mood, there’s officially one horror movie that is guaranteed to get your heart racing.
For years now, the Science of Scare Project has done an annual study to determine what horror film is the scariest of all time. The experiment has viewers watch a compiled list of 250 English-language horror films, with their metrics being the audience’s average heart rate (BPM), the heart rate variability (HRV), and the peak heart rate (BPM), all used to calculate a “Scare Score” out of 100.
The film that earned the title of the “scientifically scariest movie of all time” is getting the honor for the fourth year in a row, and that’s 2012’s Sinister. The film stars Ethan Hawke as a true crime writer struggling for inspiration to write his next big hit.
He moves with his family to a house in Pennsylvania that was was the site of an entire family’s death, which he intends to investigate in the hopes that it’ll spark a story. But as his investigation into the deaths continues, Hawke’s character uncovers a conspiracy much more menacing than anyone could’ve predicted.
Sinister tops the list of horror films with a Scare Score of 96 out of 100. As for the rest of the list, there were some interesting findings when it came to newer horror movies.
For 2026 releases, Resident Evil included “the biggest jump scare we’ve ever recorded,” as the study said, while only five 2026 horror films made it into the top 50 scariest movies, including Obsession and Backrooms.
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In second place behind Sinister was the 2020 movie Host, followed by 2022’s Skinamarink, 2010’s Insidious, and 2013’s The Conjuring. Just shy of the Top 5 was Ari Aster‘s 2018 horror film Hereditary in sixth place.
Unless something new comes out next year to compete with Sinister‘s dark story and unending tension, the movie will likely hold on to its top scare spot when the 2027 study results come out.
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