According to the Science of Scare team, Host horrified audiences, increasing their heart rates 'by an average of 24 BPM.' Their full quote can be read below: Runner-ups included Insidious (2010), Hereditary (2018), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) , and more. It narrowly took the crown over Sinister, which found itself in 2nd place. Related: Why Host Worked As A Lockdown Movie But Locked Down FailsĪs reported by Bloody Disgusting, the Science of Scare project announced the winner of scariest horror flick of the year, with 2020's Host taking the title. Medical supervisors examined the audiences as they watched the horror flicks over several weeks in special screening rooms, seeing which movies caused viewers' heart rates to rise above the average resting BPM of 64. The team complied a shortlist of the top 30 scariest films selected from Reddit, critic’s best of lists, and the 2020 Science of Scare Project. According to the team, their research included monitoring the heart rates of 250 participants as they watched iconic horror movies like Friday the 13th (1980), Alien (1979), and The Conjuring (2013). And believe it or not, there's actually plenty of science behind the study. Just in time for the Halloween season, the “Science of Scare” project from Broadband Choices once again set out to find the scariest horror flick of all time.

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