This Cannibal Horror Film Is Scaring People So Much They're Fainting

Apparently there's a new horror movie out and it's so scary that it's making people pass out.

Movie goers at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival found the new cannibal film Raw so difficult to watch that paramedics had to be called.

A number of people who attended a midnight screening of the body-horror film are said to have required medical attention after they fainted.

Ryan Werner, who is in charge of the movie's marketing in Toronto, told The Hollywood Reporter that an ambulance had to be called to the cinema, saying the film 'became too much for a couple patrons'.

The French-language film, written and directed by first-time filmmaker Julie Ducournau, follows Justine, a young vegetarian veterinary student, who is played by Garance Marillier, as she gradually turns to cannibalism.

Speaking to IndieWire ahead of the Toronto Film Festival premiere of the film, Ducournau said: "I want to hear this particular audience reacting. I want to see where they will be reacting. I am very curious. It's like being judged by my peers, because myself, I am a huge genre and horror buff."

For anyone interested in seeing it, Focus World, the art house film division of NBCUniversal, has bought the distribution rights to the film and it will be released at a later date.

Featured image credit: Toronto International Film Festival

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Topics: Horror, Movie

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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