Today in History: The movie "Sinister" was released on DVD on this day in 2012. According to science, Sinister is the scariest movie of all time. A study was made where each member of the test audience was fitted with a heart rate monitor to see how much (on average) their heart rates rose during a film. All data was averaged for each film, and one film came out on top as the undeniably scariest movie of the bunch, and that was Sinister. "The average resting heart rate of the participants was 65 BPM (beats per minute). But during Sinister, that average heart rate rose to 86 BPM—a 32% increase. That was the highest rise in BPM of any movie watched by the study participants." Forbes
The movie stars Ethan Hawke who plays a washed-up true crime writer who moves his family into a house where a horrific crime took place, but his family doesn't know. He begins researching the crime in hopes of writing a book about it. Oswalt examines video footage that he finds in the house to help him in his research, but he soon discovers more than he bargained for.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 scariest movies: Insidious was second, The Conjuring came in third, Hereditary in fourth, Paranormal Activity in fifth, and It Follows in sixth. The Conjuring 2 took home seventh place while The Babadook, The Descent, and The Visit were crowned eight, ninth, and tenth.
James Wan was behind three of these movies which makes him the king of the modern horror movie.
Lights Out should have been on that list as well.
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