10 Horror Movies Audiences Walked Out Of
3. Titane
Julia Ducournau's latest addition to the horror genre, Titane (2021) runs in a similar vein to her previous work, Raw (2016) and explores the subgenre of body horror. It truly is no surprise that audiences walked out of this film, despite how crazily brilliant it was.
How this film was marketed as "the story of a girl who has a titanium plate fitted in her head after being in a car accident" and not as "a woman who has sex with a car and then impersonates a young boy to escape her murderous past while growing a baby-car hybrid inside of her" is beyond me. Its plot is wonderful yet truly whacky, and the point at which most audience members walked out on comes in the form of a self-abortion scene.
After realising that she is pregnant, Alexia attempts to perform an abortion on herself using the chopstick that she utilises as a hair wrap- oh, and also as a murder weapon. The soundscape for this particular scene is jarring enough with squelches and thumps galore, but what really takes the biscuit is the acting of Rouselle, who really sells the look of a woman desperately performing an abortion on herself.