Second Person Dies While Watching The Passion, How Many More Needed For Record?

[Andrew WK]

After reading that a second person has died while watching 'Jesus: The Movie', I started to wonder what the record bodycount is for a film being shown at the cinema?

[sigur]

Originally posted by Andrew WK
After reading that a second person has died while watching 'Jesus: The Movie', I started to wonder what the record bodycount is for a film being shown at the cinema?

I did not know one had died:eek:

[jedirobbie]

Its ridiculous when you read stories like this "Woman dies whilst watching Jesus Movie" when the woman was something like 85, and was probably on her last legs.

Her dying wish, was probably to go and watch a movie.

[kfung]

Didn't someone die watching 'The Exorcist'?

[Wezzy]

Wasn't there some sort of gun-fight that killed several watching 'New Jack City' or some other gangsta flick in the US?

[KeyserSoze]

i bet someone dies all the time at a cinema. They just gotta pick on Passion.

Would be nice to die to DTS surround though :nuts: :dork:

[mattwakeman]

This almost sounds as though it deserves a thread of its own, 'Which film would you most/least like to die whilst watching?'!

[Soprano]

Originally posted by Wezzy
Wasn't there some sort of gun-fight that killed several watching 'New Jack City' or some other gangsta flick in the US?

I think this was pretty common in the past, dare I say it, between rival black gangs. Haven't heard of a gang shootout at a multiplex for a while.

[Uncle Nick]

Originally posted by Andrew WK
After reading that a second person has died while watching 'Jesus: The Movie', I started to wonder what the record bodycount is for a film being shown at the cinema?

Surely with this film they'll be back on their feet in a couple of days? :)

[Andrew WK]

Doesn't sound like either of them were at death's door:

A Brazilian priest has died during a screening of Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ.
Jose Geraldo Soares, a 43-year-old Presbyterian, had booked a whole cinema to view the film with his congregation.

Halfway through, his wife noticed that he was no longer awake, and a doctor in the audience confirmed that he had suffered a heart attack.

Friends denied that violence scenes of Christ's beating and crucifixion had caused Pastor Soares to expire.


"He was calmly watching the movie next to his wife," said Amauri Costa, a family friend.

Mrs Soares noticed that something was wrong when her husband did not reply when she spoke to him during the film.

The couple's two children were also in the cinema in Belo Horizonte, capital of the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais.

The film, which opened in Brazil on Friday, has been criticised by some for the considerable violence in its bloody portrayal of Jesus' final 12 hours.

It has also been attacked for alleged anti-Semitism.

But Catholic church leaders in Brazil have praised The Passion of the Christ as an accurate narrative of Biblical events.

Pastor Soares is the second person to die at a screening of the film.

Peggy Law Scott, an American woman in her 50s, passed out last month during the crucifixion scene, when watching the film in Wichita, Kansas.

She later died in hospital, after suffering a heart attack.

[cm-9]

With 30 million people and counting going to see this film, all sorts of things are bound to have happened to people in the audience during the two hours they are sitting there - I'm surprised nobody's given birth yet; I'm sure plenty have thrown up or had other illnesses in the cinema, nothing to do with the film's content but there's a very nasty flu-like virus going round at the moment.

[Squirrel God]

Originally posted by Andrew WK
Mrs Soares noticed that something was wrong when her husband did not reply when she spoke to him during the film.
Women just can't shut up while watching films can they :oh-hum:

[Andrew WK]

Originally posted by Squirrel God
Women just can't shut up while watching films can they :oh-hum:

:lol: :thumbs:

[BigDavie2000]

Not trying to be morbid, but did a cinema not collapse in India (or somewhere similar) with a large deathtoll.

[Julian K]

I say "BAN THIS SICK FILTH"!! :clap:

[Chibouk]

Pastor Soares - sounds like an allergic reaction to eating spaghetti. ;)