8 Crazy Horror Movie Truths We’ve Just Learned

8. Oddity Is Now One Of The Scariest Movies Ever Made, According To Science

Creeping its way into the world a few months ago, Irish horror Oddity quickly became one of the most talked about scary pictures of the year - many even called it the very best of 2024.

Focusing on a blind psychic, who is also a curio shopkeeper, dealing with the death of her twin and a wooden mannequin from her collection that helps her figure out what happened to her sister, Oddity was described by WhatCulture's very own James Egan as "legitimately frightening."

Those claims are certainly supported by a recent experiment.

The Science of Scare project is something that occurs every year, and it involves asking 250 people to watch a collection of the scariest English-language movies. Said viewers are fitted with heart rate monitors, with their hearts then being monitored throughout the movies.

This helps the team figure out a Science of Scare Score for the films out of 100. Just so you know, Shrek apparently got a three.

Of the 10 new films that were shown to this bunch, Oddity was the only one that made its way into the top 20 scariest movies of all time list created from these scores - it got a decent 69.

2012's Sinister is currently the scariest movie ever (in this list, at least) after briefly losing the top spot to 2020's Host.

So, there you go, according to actual science, Damian McCarthy's Oddity is now one of the scariest movies ever made.