Soil Your Shorts Scary

Shedding a tear, busting a gut — these are the typical movie reactions. Some movies, however, have conjured more extreme reactions in their audiences — from fainting during The Exorcist to nausea and vomiting during Cloverfield. But this has to be a first: A theater patron had the sh*t scared out of him, literally, by the Spanish horror flick [REC] during the NZ Film Festival premier, according to The Hot Blog.

Shot in a Cinéma vérité style (ala The Blair Witch Project), [REC] follows a late night TV reporter as she rides along with a local fire department fielding a call that an old woman is trapped in her apartment. Things take a turn for the strange when the old woman is surprisingly strong and aggressive and bites one of the firefighters. Although [REC] was released almost a year ago in Spain, it has yet to find a distributor here in the States. In fact, we’re likely to see the Hollywood remake Quarantine (which is being released this October) before the original even hits DVD in region 1. That’s a shame if it truly is as scary as the wet spot left on the theater seat promises.

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