Has there been a horror movie scene where the killer jams an electronic meat thermometer into somebody and the camera zooms in on the readout and it's 98.6? Because I think this would be a natural.
Fun fact: 98.6 comes from an early study of human body temperatures, almost entirely about sick people. The "normal" body temperature only appears in a footnote. And it was never measured to a precision of a tenth of a degree; the actual reported number was 37°C. Actual human body temperatures vary by a lot more than 0.1°F over time and between individuals.
It has also been suggested that the average temperature has actually lowered over time due to the average person harboring fewer parasites at any given time.
That, of course, is due to better standards of hygiene, food, and sanitation.
I noticed during the pandemic that when healthy my body temperature is usually from about 95-97 degrees. So all those times before when I felt like shit and measured myself at a “normal” 98-99 I was probably not fine actually.
There’s actually some theories that say it’s probably pretty accurate, but that our bodies have changed over the years and that’s why 98.6 isn’t average now.
That would be silly. The only reason that the average body temperature is said to be 98.6°F is because that is what 37°C converts to. Notice how that is a nice round number? It's actually about 97.9°F or 36.6°C.
There's one where a guy sticks his arm in a blood pressure monitor and then zombies rip his arm off his body while it's still in there and it reads 0 over 0.
Emily answers in the kitchen and is attacked by a masked assailant, but stabs him in the neck with a meat thermometer. Steven returns expecting Emily to be dead, but finds the assailant's body.
From A Perfect Murder, so it’s been used, but the close up? Who knows, and yeah not horror though.
Trying to research it is just coming up with a bunch of people being stabbed in movie theaters by meat thermometers… why is there so many…
There's a number of meat thermometer murderers - The Summer of Massacre holds the Guinness Book of records for most on-screen kills and so they get a little creative.
A man was also once stabbed with meat thermometer while watching a horror movie.
Not a thermometer, but there’s something similar in the movie Sleepaway Camp… but I think it’s a curling iron iirc…. And you don’t want that inside you