‘I couldn’t take it anymore’: 13 films that made audiences faint and be sick From the ambulances called to a Cineworld in Bolton to the infamous castration scene cut for inciting panic attacks, Adam White gathers 13 notorious films that truly tested the endurance of their viewers.
Last year, reports emerged of yet another film – the latest film in the Terrifier franchise – leaving audiences feeling rather queasy.
One of the most notorious horror films in history, Tod Browning’s Freaks cast real actors with disabilities and physical differences to play carnival attractions.
Take Saw III, a film so gnarly that Bolton ambulances were put on stand-by after reports that filmgoers were passing out during scenes of brain surgery.
But film history is full of movies so shocking, strange or downright ugly that viewers just stopped being conscious while watching them.
