fainting for cash
If I were in the business of making horror movies, I think I’d probably pay people to faint in early showings. This article describes a series of people being overcome at the opening shows of some horror flick or other. That sort of publicity must be worth a huge amount, though you wouldn’t want to be caught.
I remember reading about people being put on oxygen in Cannes at the showing of Irreversible and its anal sex rape scene. I immediately went out and saw the movie to see if it was as bad as all that. I sat there in the Angelika with a crowd of New Yorkers and no-one got up and left, or made noises like they couldn’t stand it any more, let alone needed oxygen. Perhaps that’s just because they were all living in New York and beyond normal human emotions, but I doubt it.
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