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I did a super scientific study once where I monitored my heart rate while watching movies that were listed as being the scariest. The highest my heart rate went was during a scene in the movie Hereditary, where it went up to a whopping 85 bpm!
Yeah, I don't get scared easily LMAO but the answer is Hereditary!
Scientific proof!
I'm not sure that's a very good measure of fear, though.
If you showed me an average jump-scare-infused "horror" flick of the variety that gets tossed out by the film-making industry every five minutes or so, you'd see my blood pressure and heart rate spike each time, but five minutes after the end I'd likely not even be able to identify that film it was I'd watched.
On the other hand, The Thing (the John Carpenter version) keeps me feeling unsettled each time I think of it (and has the occasional starring role in my rare nightmares). During the movie, though? Maybe a blood pressure increase, and a slight increase in heart rate. But nothing compared to the jump-scare fodder.