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Lars von Trier's provocative new film Antichrist has revolted film festival audiences around the world, prompting booing at Cannes, vomit in Toronto, and now seizures in New York, according to multiple reports. Is von Trier the new Mary Hart? Indiewire files this report from Friday night's New York Film Festival premiere:
Sometime in between on-screen mutilations, I hear this loud moan coming from behind me, followed by a loud thud. Immediately the entire audience at Alice Tully Hall was in a frenzy, most of us unsure as to what happened (I had thought someone fell off the balcony considering how loud the thud was), though it later became clear a man had a seizure. People starting screaming “Call an Ambulance!”; “Call 9/11” (including the familiar voice of actress Lili Taylor, who was apparently beside the man) as Charlotte Gainsbourg continued on her psychotic onscreen mission.Finally the film was shut off and the house lights came on, and 4 or 5 policemen entered the theater, helping the man (who was apparently okay) out. And then, after a few moments of whispering between audience members trying to figure out what had happened, “Antichrist” came back on.
Didn't any of these people see Saw? A commenter on Hollywood Elsewhere says he was at the screening and confirms the chaotic scene, and Indiewire later heard rumors that it was just "a panic attack." Either way, it wouldn't have been the first such audience freak-out at the NYFF; in 1994 someone either fainted or had a heart attack during the Uma Thurman syringe scene in Pulp Fiction.
And Gothamist's Jen Chung tells us when she saw Auto-Focus at NYFF, her friend started to have some sort of seizure. Oddly, Auto-Focus and Antichrist both star scary actor Willem Dafoe. Coincidence? Or is Dafoe the new Mary Hart! (Someone has to be.) Watch the trailer for Antichrist below, and try not to swallow your tongue.
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It looks as bad as all of von Trier's other crap. Bad enough to cause seizures?
I was able to find a streaming copy of the movie online ... and there is no way in hell I would have survived that movie in a theater.
I'm scarred for life
Maybe some people just have a physical reaction to things that suck badly enough.
You didn't like it?
So, when is the movie 'Anti-Mohammed' coming out?
Just wondering.
Muhammed is a prophet, not a God or even the equivalent of a Messiah. So, "Anti-Mohammed" really makes no sense. Now, if you said, "Anti-Allah," then maybe your joke would be more successful. Just sayin'.
Holy PR stunt
I was there (though far in the back) and can also confirm that that's pretty much how things went down. Most of the audience never figured out what had happened, though it took what seemed to be quite some time for lights to come up, and the movie didn't stop running but for a few seconds after the seizure(?) victim had left the theater anyway.
As for Antichrist itself, it was a very impressive film in many ways: beautifully shot, well acted, well paced. It also takes a dive into insanity that you may not want to go along with.
I was a the premiere of "Pulp Fiction" at the New York Film Festival and someone had a seizure during the "syringe to the heart" scene. Good times.
Yeah, I had a seizure at an advance screening of Syriana at the Tribeca Grand. The torture scene. My tolerance for violence diminishes with each passing year. No Antichrist for me.