This jump scare sent heart rates to a whopping 133 beats per minute.
One of the most criticized tropes of horror films is the jump scare. It's become a lazy tool in modern horror, a way to make the audience react against their will by causing a physical reaction that isn't true fear but natural instinct. We've all seen it done to death. A character turns a corner and, BAM, suddenly there's a loud beat of music and something is standing in or running across the frame.
"Our test subjects are invited to special screenings of our movies in our ‘screaming rooms’, where they are fitted with special heart rate monitors and their heart rate is tracked throughout the movies, under researcher supervision. From here we measure the average impact our shortlisted movies had on the heart rate of our subjects, compared to the average resting BPM of the total sample size, which each year has been 64 BPM.
Written by Leigh Whannel, the writer behind Saw and the eventual director of The Invisible Man, and helmed by James Wan, who at the time was most known for directing Saw and Dead Silence , Insidious was one of the most surprising horror films of 2011. On just a $1.5 million budget it went on to gross nearly $100 million worldwide, creating a franchise with an even more successful follow-up, followed by two more well-received films to round out the quadrilogy.
There are several jump scares in Insidious that could cause one heart's rate to jump to 133 beats per minute. The study doesn't say what the exact scene is that triggered this response in its subjects, but it's obvious that it's one specific scene. Early in the film, Josh's concerned mother, Lorraine , shows up at the family home. Young Dalton has fallen into a coma ever since seeing something in the attic and the family has been seeing paranormal apparitions.
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