Twilight fans who also happen to be epileptics may be rethinking their choice of film over the weekend, after various reports across the US of audience members having seizures while watching the latest installment, Breaking Dawn.
Apparently the entire thing is linked to the scene where Bella (Kristen Stewart) gives birth, which is scored by bright flashing colours of red, white and black. Awesome is you’re a White Stripes fan, terrible if you’re prone to seizures. Here’s perhaps our favourite reported example:
Brandon Gephart and Kelly Bauman had gone to see “Breaking Dawn: Part One” last Friday when Gephart began “convulsing, snorting, [and] trying to breathe,” according to Bauman. He doesn’t remember anything, he says, but soon awoke on the theater floor and was taken out by paramedics. The remainder of the screening was cancelled.
We often do the same thing trying to figure out just how Taylor Lautner keeps those abs perfectly aligned in every single movie. Or trying to establish how Stewart still has lips after she spends most of the film biting them. There has been no official warning appended to the film, probably given that most teenage girls collapse into some sort of fit the second R-Patz comes on screen, and at that rate, the film will lose 90% of its audience. But seizures are serious, particularly in a dark theatre, so Twi-hards, look out for one another, won’t you?
via ABC News US.
