10 Shocking Movie Moments That Made People Leave The Cinema

10. Raw (2016)

In 2016, Julia Ducournau brought us the French-language, feminist, veterinarian university-set, cannibal film we didn't know we had been foaming at the mouth for.

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Justine (Garance Marillier) arrives at vet school and undergoes a ritualistic process of hazing and initiations as she comes to terms with a new hunger, sense of sexuality and change happening inside herself. Guided by her sister, she faces her family's deepest, darkest secret, pitting her cannibalistic urges off against a desire to be good, or at least normal.

But, for some, this body horror was a bite too far. Ambulances arrived during Raw's screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to tend to those in attendance who collapsed during the screening and had to be taken and treated outside, overwhelmed by the protagonist's growing taste for human flesh.

In a grim, stomach-churning and apparently faint-inducing one-two punch, Justine accidentally helps sever her sister's finger, before quite intentionally chowing down on it, stripping bloody flesh from the bone as if it were KFC.

Finger-lickin' good.

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