10 Movies Interrupted By Horrific Violence In The Cinema

8. Black Swan

Sometimes we go to the cinema to watch some mindless entertainment - eye and brain candy which doesn't expect us to think. Other times we prefer movies to challenge us and make us question things we perhaps might not ordinarily consider, and it's in the latter category that Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller Black Swan falls. It was perhaps doubly disturbing for innocent members of the audience who experienced the act of violence during the screening on account of the fact that Black Swan is an uncompromising examination of a psychologically damaged mind - perhaps more shocking was the utterly banal reason for the shooting: the level of noise the victim was making eating his popcorn. The shooting took place in a multiplex in Riga, the capital of Latvia, as the credits to Black Swan rolled. A 27-year-old man had begun arguing with a 42-year-old after the film before shooting him - the victim died later that evening in hospital.