I’ve been hundreds to if not thousands of movies in my life, but I’m apparently going to the theater at the wrong time, because I’ve never seen anyone poop and vomit in the aisle, or pass out from sheer terror. Those reactions could both apply to Fifty Shades of Grey, but the fainting actually happened during a screening of Raw, writer and director Julia Ducournau’s new horror movie that’s apparently so scary, or at least so disgusting, “an ambulance had to be called to the scene as the film became too much for a couple patrons.”
Of course, that quote came from the person in charge of Raw‘s marketing at the Toronto Film Festival, but it’s certainly possible. Consider the premise:
“Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet. And a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a brilliant and promising student. When she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the first week of hazing rituals, desperate to fit in whatever the cost, she strays from her family’s principles when she eats raw meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge.”
After one of the best “This Film Advertised Has Been Rated” warnings in recent memory (“Aberrant Behavior, Bloody and Grisly Images,” “Strong Sexuality,” “Nudity,” “Language and Drug Use,” and most damning of all, “Partying”), Raw’s trailer begins with a car accident, and ends with cannibalism. There’s also the most horrifying scene involving scissors since Anti-Christ. What I’m saying is, it’s fun for fainting with the whole family!
Raw opens in select theaters on March 10.
