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Toronto Film Festival: Fake passing out for Promo.....

posted 8 years ago by eproxypayments
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I worked in the movie and the production crew is very sleazy. They didn't pay the promise contract to some workers. The producers also came up with the idea to get free viral promotion by setting up actors to pass out and create a scene during the screen. It seems like the idea worked Brilliantly as every news outlet and websites are covering the pass out story. Majority of the people would have never heard of this movie if it wasn't for that free promotion. Hopefully the stunts exposure brings in extra revenue so that the producers can pay promised contract.

[–] ckembar1972 8 years ago

Thank you for elaborating on this strange incident, now it makes sense :-) Can you tell me something about the movie itself?

[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

hi. i am the producer of the film. please dont believe a word, this lying piece of crap says. we fired him early on, because he was stealing props and being mouthy all the time.

[–] TurntUp 8 years ago

Are you mentally retarded? How would you know who it is? There's no publicly visible name attached to the account.

[–] Dmagic5000 8 years ago

I'm pretty sure "the producer" was making a joke saying how easy it is to say you're someone that worked on a the movie to get people to believe you. We have no proof that the OP actually worked on the movie so we have to what he said with a grain of salt

[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

exactly. ironic that the other poster immediately jumped on it. what a tool.

[–] Duluume 8 years ago

for a movie producer you spend an awful lot of time on IMDB's message board. I mean daily responses every five minutes.

When do you find time to produce anything?

I lol.

[–] therefdotcom 8 years ago

whenever your mum let's me off between her legs. so, i have to stick to indie productions with limited set days. unfortunately. for me, not your mum, obviously.

[–] adityadagar97 8 years ago

HAHAHAHHA

[–] TomFromMySpaceinhell 8 years ago

I'm glad someone has a sense of humor. "I am the producer of the film." Ha that cracks me up.

[–] ElvenKing4 8 years ago

I heard that people are vomiting and fainting, which makes me really want to see this!

[–] snqr96-66-853950 8 years ago

Did you not read the *beep* post? He just said they were actors.

[–] ElvenKing4 8 years ago

Okay...

[–] Patrick_Bateman718 8 years ago

And why should what he/she said be taken as a fact?

[–] kenny2001 8 years ago

I'm about to see it, I'll review after. Hopefully it's good I heard it was.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (62046923) 8 years ago

Tell us about the gore please!

[–] kenny2001 8 years ago

So good ! It wasn't too gory but I loved it ! The fainting wasn't fake some people can't do cannibalistic movies and it's TIFF so there's a lot of older people with all access passes. And the faintings happened at a midnight premierie on a weekday.

It was a really good movie ! 8/10. I don't want to spoil much for anyone.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (62046923) 8 years ago

What happened in the gore though?

[–] commavimaire 8 years ago

I suggest you to watch the movie to discover it by yourself because the strengh of the gore is a function of the overall mood the movie can build.

But if you must know it right here right now:

SPOILER ALERT

I think the most disturbing scene is when the main character eats her sister's finger, chopped off by mistake. The way she crunches and scrunches it is very realistic.

There are also some scene with animal dissection - I don't think thay are special effects, just real animals dissected in an ordinary veterinary class context.

[–] ijorden0811 8 years ago

Can you please spoil the ending for me? Im dying to know what happens...

[–] C_h_r_i_s_t_o_p_h_e_r 8 years ago

I really enjoyed the film as well. I'm not sure if I believe the OP but it's entirely possible. If it's true then I can't knock the hustle of the producers because it obviously worked. Personally I didn't find it that crazy that 3 people would pasa out but some people are very squeamish. If you're that squeamish though then why the hell are you seeing this movie in the first place!!

[–] bradleyryanbutterworth 8 years ago

I attended the opening of Raw at TIFF and was thrilled to see a female director create something so different. People got sick from the film and there really was an ambulance. I NEED to know the soundtrack. The mirror dance scene is stuck in my head.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (62046923) 8 years ago

Was it electronic?

[–] commavimaire 8 years ago

Hello, yes the soundtrack is amazing, there are some tracks to listen here http://www.cinezik.org/critiques/affcritique.php?titre=grave

My favourite track is the main theme by Jim Williams, instrumental electronic with a retro (70-80) mood.

[–] Coolestmovies 8 years ago

Late reply here, but I was also at that premiere and there was one person who passed out, at best, and even that was extremely questionable, which is why so many people called b.s. on it. I was at all the Midnight shows this year and I can say that Colin Geddes was rather defensive about the whole incident the next night and at least one more night after that. I'm sure lots of fest goers think they'll be all daring by doing a Midnight show, and get in over their heads. I want to believe that this one was real -- especially since a real ambulance was dispatched, which would NOT be cool if it was all a scam -- but it's so hard to tell these days with marketing people working overtime to get their media coverage in a landscape more crowded that ever before.

[–] laserboy28 8 years ago

I was at the Toronto Film Festival Midnight Madness screening, no actors were passing out, the distressed audience members were for real. I saw it. The Midnight Madness programmer got down and serious in the nights that followed announcing to the audience each night that it was absolutely not a "promotion", it was real. TIFF was getting heat over it. I've seen this happen before at TIFF's Midnight Madness screenings. Two that immediately come to mind was, "Martyrs" (someone in the balcony with us also barfed), and "Inside".

[–] eproxypayments 8 years ago

Don't believe everything that you read on the internet.
I posted the original thread as a September Fools joke.
Didn't expect to catch fire like this.
I don't know anything about this film. I have no idea if the pass outs are real or fake.
Cheers.