A spectator fainted during the screening of Robert Morgan’s film “Stopmotion” at the Sitges Film Festival.
After the horror film that makes you vomit, it’s time for the one that makes you faint! Presented in preview during the Sitges Festival which takes place from October 5 to 15 in Spain, the feature film Stopmotion by Robert Morgan caused a spectator to faint. Present on site, Tomás Andrés, our colleague from the site SensaCine, reports that the spectator “got up to go to the bathroom to freshen up and collapsed.” Medical staff then quickly intervened.
Robert Morgan’s first feature film, Stopmotion is led by Aisling Franciosi, recently seen in the casting of The Last Voyage of the Demeter, the young Caoilinn Springall and Tom York.
In the film, Ella, a stop-motion animator, must deal with the death of her mother with whom she had a complicated relationship. She then immersed herself in work and began creating the puppets for her films from steaks, then dead animals. Later, she pushes the madness even further by deciding to make them with parts of her own body.
Tomás Andrés specifies that the spectator’s loss of consciousness occurred after a shocking scene during which the main character of the film “spreads his legs and begins to cut away flesh and muscles” to create one of his puppets.
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And when we see the first photos of the flesh dolls in the film (above), we understand that the images made some spectators uncomfortable.
The director is not his first attempt since he has already directed several fairly gory horror short films such as the notable The Cat with Hands, Bobby Yeah (the trailer for which can be seen at the top of this article) or Belial’s Dream. Robert Morgan also directed the “D is for Deloused” segment of the horror compilation The ABCs of Death 2.
No release date has yet been announced for Stopmotion.