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Common
09-14-2016, 07:28 AM
Toronto: Multiple Moviegoers Pass Out During Screening of Cannibal Movie 'Raw'
"The film became too much for a couple patrons," said Ryan Werner, who is handling the film's marketing on the ground at TIFF. A Midnight Madness screening of the cannibal film Raw (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/raw-grave-cannes-review-894039) turned into a medical scene early Tuesday morning as paramedics were called to treat multiple audience members who had passed out.
"An ambulance had to be called to the scene as the film became too much for a couple patrons," said Ryan Werner, who is handling the film's marketing on the ground at the Toronto Film Festival and was at the screening.
The graphic film has become a must-see for horror fans after taking the FIPRESCI Critics' Prize in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where it made its world premiere without incident.
The mobbed screening also had top agents and managers on hand jockeying for the attention of director Julia Ducournau, who is currently unsigned.
The French-language film about a vegetarian college student who slowly becomes a cannibal became one of the most buzzed-about European films out of Cannes for its potential to cross over with U.S. audiences (Focus World bought the film out of Cannes).
Raw will next screen at Fantastic Fest, followed by Mayhem Film Festival, Celluloid Screams, Beyond Fest and the Sitges Film Festival.
Werner said he had only seen this type of physical reaction to a movie before with Lars von Trier's Antichrist.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-multiple-moviegoers-pass-screening-928431

waltky
09-14-2016, 07:38 AM
Yea...

... Canucks are kinda squeamish...

... `bout such things.

Common Sense
09-14-2016, 07:45 AM
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is on right now. We have people from all over the world here. Many Americans.

This is probably more of a publicity stunt than anything else.

exploited
09-14-2016, 07:47 AM
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is on right now. We have people from all over the world here. Many Americans.

This is probably more of a publicity stunt than anything else.

There is one of these stories every year from TIFF.

Standing Wolf
09-14-2016, 07:52 AM
This is probably more of a publicity stunt than anything else.

Oh, so you don't think that the fact that the story came from the guy who is "handling the film's marketing" is a coincidence? :grin:

My first thought was of those horror films back in the '50s and '60s - considered to be very tame now, of course - that would advertise that medical personnel were standing by for folks who were overcome with fear or hysteria.

exotix
09-14-2016, 10:41 AM
Canadians pass out watching cannibal movie
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-multiple-moviegoers-pass-screening-928431Doesn't say anything about Canadians only ... care to revise your statement ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1DGc_074M

sachem
09-14-2016, 10:49 AM
Not my cup of tea, but to each her own. Sounds like publicity incident.

Ethereal
09-14-2016, 10:54 AM
I have no idea why anyone would want to watch movies which basically amount to nothing more than gory torture porn. There is something sick about a person who finds pleasure in human suffering and misery.

exotix
09-14-2016, 11:01 AM
I have no idea why anyone would want to watch movies which basically amount to nothing more than gory torture porn.

There is something sick about a person who finds pleasure in human suffering and misery.Having to watch Wayne Lapierre laughing and scoffing at the congressional hearing after Sandy Hook comes to mind.

AZ Jim
09-14-2016, 11:30 AM
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is on right now. We have people from all over the world here. Many Americans.

This is probably more of a publicity stunt than anything else.When Hitchcock's "Psycho" first opened the theaters had nurses in each theater to handle the "fainting" customers. Strictly publicity.

Common Sense
09-14-2016, 11:58 AM
The interesting difference between Canadian sensibilities and those of Americans is violence vs. sexuality. Canadian film and television tends to put more warnings on violent content rather than sexual content. The opposite seems to be true in the US. Prime time TV in the US can show graphic violence, but heaven forbid you see a woman's nipple. The opposite is sort of true here.

Cletus
09-14-2016, 12:03 PM
Having to watch Wayne Lapierre laughing and scoffing at the congressional hearing after Sandy Hook comes to mind.

Forcing a PW to read your posts and look at your stupid avatar every day would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Subdermal
09-14-2016, 12:12 PM
Having to watch Wayne Lapierre laughing and scoffing at the congressional hearing after Sandy Hook comes to mind.

Making you miserable doesn't count.

silvereyes
09-14-2016, 12:25 PM
Forcing a PW to read your posts and look at your stupid avatar every day would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Awwww. You mad bro?

Easy fix....pay attention:

Go to your profile and hit edit ignore list...add him there.

Voila!!! Ta-da!!!

See how easy that is?

exotix
09-14-2016, 12:28 PM
Forcing a PW to read your posts and look at your stupid avatar every day would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
Awwww. You mad bro?

Easy fix....pay attention:

Go to your profile and hit edit ignore list...add him there.

Voila!!! Ta-da!!!

See how easy that is?Cletus wouldn't have a reason to live without having to listen to the exotixs' shit like this ... http://i66.tinypic.com/14xm47.gif

silvereyes
09-14-2016, 12:33 PM
Oops. Crackhead phone. Dupe.

silvereyes
09-14-2016, 12:43 PM
Sooooo, is there a point to this? What is the take-away from exposing this? Why isnt this in the Pub or movies section?

Mini Me
09-14-2016, 12:55 PM
Even as a fan of horror movies all my life, the one I cannot watch is "SAWS"! Way too gory!

Mini Me
09-14-2016, 01:01 PM
Took my GF to see "Invasion of the Body Snacthers" with Donald Sutherland at the drive in movie.

She totally freaked out during the scene where the dog is running around with a human head!

She left my car screaming, and I didn't find her until about an hour later! She wouldn't speak to me all the way home, or for weeks after that!

AZ Jim
09-14-2016, 01:07 PM
I spent almost 8 years as a police photo journalist in SOCAL. I saw death in all it's forms. Everything from as many as seven children killed in a slum house fire to brains all over a wall from a bullet out of a 30.06 rifle to you name it. I never needed or wanted "horror films".

Ethereal
09-14-2016, 01:11 PM
Even as a fan of horror movies all my life, the one I cannot watch is "SAWS"! Way too gory!

I like a good horror movie. What I cannot stand are movies that are gory purely for their own sake. SAW is a good example.