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EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that IFC Midnight is finalizing a U.S. distribution rights deal for The Incident, the horror title that created a stir when a couple of audience members responded to the hardcore scenes by fainting. IFC Midnight negotiated the deal with Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group. SND is selling foreign.
EARLIER, 10:25 AM: The Incident, the Alexandre Courtes-directed drama that screened this morning in the Midnight Madness category, is clearly not for the squeamish. I’m told that two moviegoers fainted and an ambulance was called. The movie is about three struggling musicians who moonlight as cooks in a high security insane asylum. When a storm shuts down the security system, the cells are unlocked and dangerous inmates run wild. Apparently, one person fainted when one of the cooks was tied to a stove top and burned alive. That will get you every time. Paradigm is trying to sell domestic.
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I hate that Hollywood seems to recycle the SAME old plots again!
Script was originally set up at Mandate over 6 years ago.
You know what I hate, Nick? Your terrible script that you keep sending to me once a month in query letters.
This little request goes out to Nick, the guy who fires from the hip without thinking it through…
Oh my! Oh, Dear Nick-
Just how do you tick?
You say such rude things
That burn to the quick!
“the ‘Wood and their plots:
like garlic n’ knots!
Ev’ry time you go try them
You break out in pox!”
“Can’t they cook with sobriety?
Their tastes have no variety!
An insult! A slap!
To all in society!”
Oh, Nick! You’d do well
to heed what I tell-
Re: plots; and George Polti,
He cried “Ain’t it swell!-”
Thirty-and-six I have counted.”
He said, what amounted,
“All the dramatic situations.
are fixed and alloted.”
I ask why you jeer-
It’s perfectly clear!
Tho’ plots may’ve stagnated
(heed close with your ear!)
Just how many stories,
(Small, epic, or glorious)
With plots naught but 3-6,
Could you draft victorious?
The art’s in the TELLING.
It’s not all ’bout selling
films copied and pasted
Their muse- withered, yellow’ng.
Tho’ plots are unchanged,
the GOAL is, the aim:
Who, What, Where? When, Why, How?
These films aren’t the same!
It would be funny if the people who fainted were paid to do so. What ever will get more attention and press, right?
Who goes to horror movie screenings at midnight during a major film festival and doesn’t have a strong enough dispostion for gore? Please. Those “fainters” were obviously planted.
Too bad, it sounded like a fun concept until the tied-to-a-stove-and-burned-alive bit. Same old torture porn nonsense.