10 Horror Movies Audiences Couldn't Handle

After stunning audiences with university cannibal horror Raw, Julia Ducournau was going to have to pull something pretty grotty out of the bag to sustain our expectations. And, with Palme d’Or winner Titane, that is precisely what she did.

Following an insane young woman with a metal plate in her head - Agathe Rousselle’s Alexia - we are led into a world of mechanophilia, murder, and manipulation. After killing several people and getting impregnated by her favourite ride at an auto show, Alexia goes on the run and becomes Adrien, the lost son of stricken fire chief Vincent (Vincent Lindon), whose steroid use is ruining his life - but perhaps not as much as his new lodger.

A body horror that moves in fits and starts, Titane may have won over the Cannes glitterati, but festival audiences on the other side of the globe struggled to get through it in one piece. Indeed, although the director herself never saw anyone faint or throw up, at the Sydney Film Festival, at least 13 people collapsed during the film’s premiere, with some outlets reporting 20+ casualties.