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A number of social networks are still pulsating about a medical study of 2012 purportedly showing that most of the adults burn many calories during watching horror & scary movies and those burned calories are equal to a walk of 30-minutes. Some have predicted that watching scary movies can reduce the risk of fatness. Is there any kind of truth in these claims? Is there a perfect weight-loss technique of watching scary movies? A report of The Telegraph on 28^th October 2012 indicated that the mentioned study was settled by the UK movie rental service “Love Film” and it was presented just before the spooky holiday with a clear objective of boosting video sales.

Point to be noted that the purported study wasn’t reviewed or published or planned to be publish. The research study was presented by a medical institution the University of Westminster in London. This research study was supervised by Dr. Richard Mackenzie, a specialist of cell metabolism & physiology. The Telegraph explained his methodology and indicated that two things to be considered, first one is a small size of sample size with just 10 people and second is the narrow scope of the study because the study just measured the metabolism of participants in a real time, but they didn’t track their original weight loss over an extended period of time to compare the perfectness of weight-loss methods. It is important that total amount of calories purportedly burned during watching scary movies was not large or impressive amount of size.