Hey folks, Harry here... When a filmmaker is making a film, shooting a scene, editing the film... when a make-up effects artist or a cg artist is sitting down delicately applying their craft to a film... they hope for a reaction. Sometimes it's cheers, sometimes it's a gasp, sometimes it is tears. However, Eli Roth, I suspect is hoping for something a bit more. Now on AICN - I've often reported about physical reactions that films (usually horror films) have had on unsuspecting audiences - and I remember back during the hype-arama for BLAIR WITCH PROJECT - we reported on how folks sitting close to the screen were spontaneously vomiting - which was in fact due to motion sickness.
However, HOSTEL doesn't have that shakycam bullshit. So don't worry about that. No, rather somehow the images, emotion, intensity of this film apparently caused some poor soul to rush out of the theater - probably with their hand over their mouth - and then they sprayed roughly 7 feet of vomit across the floor and wall of the hallway leaving the screening room. AWESOME! In all my years of filmgoing - I've never seen VOMIT after a film.
Dad and I were taking a dear friend who was trapped working at an animal hostel during its screening at FANTASTIC FEST - and there she was eating her falafiel during the film happily - tensed up, scared and eventually clapping and cheering and giggling through the end of the film. Of course this is the same gal that came to the all night horror marathon at the asylum dressed as FRANK the rabbit from DONNIE DARKO in a handmade costume she'd made herself! She also illustrated a fantastic Tarot deck called TAROT OF THE DEAD featuring illustrated skeletons doing all those tarot things. She isn't a Goth - but next to Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel and a good Busby Berkeley film - she loves a good zombie, horror, gross out fun. She spotted the vomit first and started doing a happy dance. You see - as fans of William Castle... and the fact there are TV spots that apparently warn people of dangerous consequences of seeing this film... heh... AND HERE'S THE PROOF FROM THE LATE SHOW OPENING NIGHT AT THE ALAMO SOUTH!!!
