There was a small article in yesterday's The London Paper about Saw III and how since it's release in the UK, ambulances have been called to three different cinemas to treat a total of 5 people (4 women, 1 man) who've fainted during torture scenes in the film.
Obviously the paper brands the movie ridiculously scary, but, actually, a closer read reveals something else. The cinemas in which people have fainted are in Stevenage, Cambridge and Peterborough - leading me to conclude that there's nothing wrong with the film; East Anglians are just wimps.
Being of East Anglian descent myself, when I go see it I suppose I'd better wear a crash helmet in case I fall off my chair. I did after all faint at Watership Down aged 5.
Hmm. If East Anglicans are wimps then what are Episcopalians?
ReplyDeleteLol! East Anglians (no "C")
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I smell a rat here... publicity... moral panic spring to mind.
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ReplyDeletePeople probably faint at all kinds of movies--just because people sometimes faint. Maybe they need a sandwich, or a nap, y'know? Only when it's a horror movie, the film's publicists have reason to trumpet the story to sell tickets.
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