Sundance horror movie seizure
One man ran from the cinema, collapsed and starting convulsing after watching the graphic scenes of new film V/H/S on Monday.
His girlfriend was also treated by ambulance staff as she began to vomit while witnesses said a third woman ran from the cinema as the tension became too much.
Speaking after the incident, the film’s producer Roxanne Benjamin was quoted as saying: “One of the managers for the theater was sitting near the guy, and said he just got real real pale and stood up and bobbed and weaved his way out the door.
“Once he was in the lobby, he kind of turned around and collapsed. He seemed to go into a seizure and so we called 911.”
She later tweeted that the couple were ok and they “wanted to go back into the theatre”
The man was watching a midnight screening of V/H/S on Monday when he ran from the cinema, collapsed and began to suffer seizures...
While he was being treated by ambulance officers, his girlfriend ran from the scene and began to vomit.
Witnesses said a third woman ran from the cinema because she could not take the suspense.
Producer Roxanne Benjamin, posting on Twitter as the drama unfolded, said that EMTs were called to the scene, that the event was not staged and 'it was scary and not fun, and everyone is grateful the guy and his girlfriend are OK. And they wanted to go back in the theatre!'
One of the managers for the theater was sitting near the guy, and said he just got real real pale and stood up and bobbed and weaved his way out the door,' Benjamin says.
Once he was in the lobby, he kind of turned around and collapsed. He seemed to go into a seizure and so we called 911.
The two were treated for about half an hour, but did not require hospitalization
According to insider, it wasn't the first time that 'V/H/S' has created such a reaction. Barrett said that during a screening the night before, 'at pretty much the exact same scene,' another young woman left the theater in tears and spent the rest of the film in the lobby.
The filmmakers spoke to her briefly and she said, 'I just got scared,' but she didn't return to the theater.
The horror film, which was just acquired by Magnolia Pictures for more than $1million, follows a group of petty criminals who are tasked with finding a VHS tape in a remote and rundown house, only to discover an entire trove of recorded nastiness there.
Like The Blair Witch Project, which was also a Sundance midnight movie that kicked off the genre in 1999, there are some vertigo-inducing moments of shaky camera work in V/H/S, particularly in the beginning, said producer Roxanne Benjamin.
Benjamin blames this factor as much as anything for the couple’s dramatic evacuation from the theater.
The movie, is about a group of criminals who watch a variety of homemade VHS tapes containing supernatural moments.
Speaking from 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, co-writer Simon Barrett told msnbc.com the man became ill while watching a particularly 'intense series of scenes' that include graphic injuries to a person.
At one point, a fleeing character tumbles down a flight of concrete steps and gets a compound fracture in his wrist — the white bone jutting out through the skin as the predatory fiend appears at the top of the staircase.
Barrett said that the segment, 'while very funny in parts, is also quite intense and gory,' and noted that the film's handheld camera style combined with other factors 'can probably be a bit difficult to take.'
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