For everyone who doesn’t like jumping from fear, the experts at FindMyCasino.com decided to find out the least scary horror movies, by utilising a seed list of the 100 popular all-time best horrors and collecting the number of jump scares for each.
Here are the top 20 least scary horror movies, ranked…
| Rank | Horror Movie | Release Year | Number of Jump Scares |
| 1= | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | 0 |
| 1= | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | 0 |
| 1= | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | 0 |
| 1= | Bone Tomahawk | 2015 | 0 |
| 5= | Carrie | 1976 | 1 |
| 5= | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | 1 |
| 5= | Coherence | 2013 | 1 |
| 8= | Psycho | 1960 | 2 |
| 8= | The Fly | 1986 | 2 |
| 8= | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | 2 |
| 8= | Let the Right One In | 2008 | 2 |
| 8= | I Saw the Devil | 2010 | 2 |
| 8= | Hostel | 2005 | 2 |
| 14= | Midsommar | 2019 | 3 |
| 14= | The Shining | 1980 | 3 |
| 14= | Gerald’s Game | 2017 | 3 |
| 14= | Raw | 2016 | 3 |
| 18= | The Others | 2001 | 4 |
| 18= | Bird Box | 2018 | 4 |
| 18= | The Last House on the Left | 2009 | 4 |
Please find the complete data sheet with all 100 horror movies ranked in this folder.
First place for the least scary horror movie goes to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Bone Tomahawk (2015) with 0 jump scares throughout their runtime. Therefore, they also received a jump scare rating of 0 stars. This makes them ideal for anyone who would like to watch a spooky movie this Halloween, but doesn’t want to be absolutely terrified.
With a total of 1 jump scare, fifth place is shared by Carrie (1976), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Coherence (2013). All three had a jump scare percentage of 1%. And in terms of jump scare rating, they managed to get only 0.5 stars.
Following closely behind, a whopping six movies share eighth place, having generated 2 jump scares. These are Psycho (1960), The Fly (1986), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Let the Right One In (2008), I Saw the Devil (2010) and Hostel (2005). However, they did not get the same jump scare rating – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and I Saw the Devil got 1 star, while the rest got 0.5.
Lilly Sabir, a psychologist at Oxford Spires Practice, comments on what being scared does to a person’s psyche and why people like watching horror movies, and therefore, feeling scared:
“This is to do with human beings feeling the need to be stimulated. Fear responses can produce anxiety-like symptoms but we are prepared for them when watching a horror movie so the effect is stimulation within our control. We produce chemical responses in the body and mind, and that stimulation process can lead to heightened arousal. If you like, we sometimes refer to it as getting a bit of a kick from our environmental stimuli, getting spooked and quite literally feeling ‘alive’.”
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