During The Exorcist’s 1973 release, some cinemas reportedly kept medical help nearby as audiences fainted, vomited, and fled the aisles — turning the movie itself into a public endurance test
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Four St John Ambulance crews once stood in a Cardiff cinema foyer, on duty, waiting for a film to start knocking people over.
They stayed busy. A dispatch from that week’s screenings, later reprinted by the South Wales Echo, records a man in his thirties bolting for the exit and being sick before he got outside. Three young women fainted into the arms of the St John crew. All but a handful of the 1,800 seats had been sold. The superintendent in charge said patrons had been coming out looki
They stayed busy. A dispatch from that week’s screenings, later reprinted by the South Wales Echo, records a man in his thirties bolting for the exit and being sick before he got outside. Three young women fainted into the arms of the St John crew. All but a handful of the 1,800 seats had been sold. The superintendent in charge said patrons had been coming out looki
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