The Calories of Horror

Lee Unkrich of Toy Story 3 fame is a big fan of The Shining. The other day he posted a link to a study by The University of Westminster that details how watching horror movies can actually burn some calories. The results were as follows.

Title	Calories
The Shining	184
Jaws	161
The Exorcist	158
Alien	152
Saw	133
A Nightmare on Elm Street	118
Paranormal Activity	111
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	107
The Blair Witch Project	105
[Rec]	101

Being the nerd that I am, I thought it would be fun to see which film burned the most calories per minute. Run times on some of these films is longer than others and I wanted to see which film was most effective at burning calories, not just which one was really long.

Title	Calories	Length(m)	Calories/min
The Exorcist	158	132	1.97
Alien	152	117	1.30
Saw	133	103	1.29
[Rec]	101	78	1.29
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	107	83	1.29
A Nightmare on Elm Street	118	92	1.28
The Shining	184	146	1.26
Jaws	161	130	1.24
Paranormal Activity	111	99	1.12
The Blair Witch Project	105	105	1.00

So if you're looking to burn calories the most efficiently by watching horror films tomorrow, watch The Exorcist. It clocks in at nearly 2 calories a minute, just from watching the movie.