8 Crazy Horror Movie Truths We’ve Just Learned

It's never been easier to learn something new, exciting, or even quite crazy about either your favourite horror movie or one that's about to land in theatres. Those who love getting the crap scared out of them can likely discover something interesting about a scary film every time they pick up their phones.

Directors and actors constantly find themselves sitting in press junkets and being asked questions about their incoming or past projects, and this often leads to quite fascinating chunks of information and secrets making their way online.

Away from those revealing interviews, fright fans have also been treated to rather unexpected truths from studio bosses and a pretty intriguing horror experiment recently.

Each and every one of the following horror facts will either alter the way you look at a movie forever, leave you feeling a little uneasy, or possibly just provide you with a cool fact to throw at your mates during your next watch of the movie in question.

So, from a film you probably didn't realise was officially one of the scariest of all time, to the scene that almost ruined Nutella for one actor, here are eight mad horror truths that have only just been revealed...

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.