Most Scary Movie of All Time Named
From: Compuserve News
The most scary movie of all time is Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. This distinction is not based on a survey of film critics or a poll of moviegoers. It is based on a newly devised mathematical formula to discern the secret of making a scary movie.
The BBC News Online reports that a team from King's College in London, England was commissioned by Sky Movies and spent two weeks watching horror films, including "Psycho," "The Blair Witch Project," "The Exorcist," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Silence of the Lambs." When the screaming died down, they focused their mathematical model on suspense, realism, and gore, as well as such factors as the use of escalating music, the balance between true life and fantasy, and how much blood and guts are involved. To be truly frightening, the film has to be realistic.
Don't be frightened by this, but here's the scary movie formula:
(es+u+cs+t) squared +s+ (tl+f)/2 + (a+dr+fs)/n+ sin x-1
Where:
es = escalating music
u = the unknown
cs = chase scenes
t = sense of being trapped
s = shock
tl = true life
f = fantasy
a = character is alone
dr = in the dark
fs = film setting
n = number of people
sin = blood and guts
1 = stereotypes
Based on this formula, "The Shining," the 1980 film based on the Stephen King book, made the perfect horror film. "Jaws" is the perfect example of the right amount of gore. "Steven Spielberg reached the optimum level perfectly, allowing the viewer to see just enough blood to be scared of the Great White Shark, but not so much that it repulsed us," the experts wrote.
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