Rating vs. number of jump scares for the 100 highest-rated horror films
**Sources:** IMDb, Letterboxd, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes for ratings, whenjumpscare.com for jump-scare counts ( wheresthejump.com as fallback), Wikidata for linking film IDs across sites. Retrieved Oct 8, 2026.
**Tools:** `Python (polars, requests, scipy)` for scraping and analysis, `D3.js` for the chart, rendered with `Playwright`.
**Rating:** mean of IMDb (×10), Letterboxd (×20), Metascore, and Rotten Tomatoes \*critics' average score\* (×10). All four are on a 0–100 scale. A film needs at least 3 of the 4 and 25k+ IMDb votes.
**Horror:** at least one genre tag containing "horror" on IMDb, TMDB or Letterboxd. #education source