Sign Us Right Up! Watch 13 Horror Movies In October & This Company Will Pay You $1,300 For It

Get your popcorn ready. Setting the mood for Halloween well ahead of time, a finance company called FinanceBuzz will pay you $1,300 (Rs 95,700, approximately) to watch 13 horror movies in October.

In a quest to find a 'Horror Movie Heart Rate Analyst,' FinanceBuzz wants volunteers to sit through 13 super scary movies while wearing a Fitbit device. The idea is to monitor your heart rate and establish whether a movie's budget decides its effectiveness.

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Calling it a 'good side hustle,' the company's press release read: 'You¡¯ll help us discover whether or not a movie¡¯s budget impacts just how dread-inducing it can be by wearing a Fitbit to monitor your heart rate while you work your way through the list of 13 movies below.'

'You¡¯ll also rank the movies based on your prediction of the size of their production budgets,' it further read.

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All applications are to be sent in by midnight of September 26, 2021. October 1 will be the day the chosen winner will be notified via email. Side note: this one's only for peeps based in the United States, and those above 18 years of age.

The list, a 'mix of high- and low-budget horror films,' includes Saw, Amityville Horror, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part 2, Candyman, Insidious, The Blair Witch Project, Sinister, Get Out, The Purge, Halloween (2018), Paranormal Activity, and Annabelle.

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In case you or a friend want to apply, start here.

(h/t: CNN)