I have not seen any of Lucky McKee’s films, including what is apparently his most well-known feature May, but his latest has caused a bit of a stir at the Sundance Film Festival. According to Badass Digest six people walked out of the film — one woman apparently was running away so fast she fell and hit her head — and then the guy in the video below apparently began yelling during the Q&A after the film and was then escorted out, but not before someone caught the following video of the gentleman in the hallway outside the theater.
The film is titled The Woman and Sundance offers the following description:
Good-old-fashioned-horror impresario Lucky McKee (McKee’s May screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival) returns to Park City with an outrageously sadistic peek under the surface of family values gone terribly wrong.
When stern patriarch Chris Cleek stumbles upon a wild woman while hunting deep in the woods, he does what he believes is the only logical thing–he stalks, captures, and imprisons the savage in his shed with the intent of civilizing her. Naturally, Cleek wants his whole family to participate in the process; refusal is not an option for his frail wife, reluctant daughters, and all-too-eager son. As his training methods turn increasingly torturous, resistance is met with brute force and animalistic urges, building meticulously to an unrelenting, carnage-filled climax.
Writhing through themes of abuse, legacies, and adolescent pain, McKee’s exercise in cruelty gleefully grinds the classic Pygmalion story into a macabre pulp for all to enjoy.
I’m not one for horror so intense it causes the kind of reaction this film has. I had no interest in watching The Human Centipede or the remake of I Spit On Your Grave, but it is always interesting when films can stir up a bit of moral controversy. Unfortunately I don’t have any additional information on the film or video, but I think you can take everything said here into account and come up with your own thoughts on the incident.
S.T. VanAirsdale at Movieline speculates as to the whole thing being a hoax. Watch and decide for yourself.
