10 Times Audiences Were Pissed Off At Film Premieres
2. Lars Von Trier's Serial Killer Movie Sparked Over 100 Walkouts - The House That Jack Built
Lars von Trier is a contentious filmmaker at the best of times, and well and truly put his foot in his mouth at the Cannes press conference for his 2011 film Melancholia, where he jokingly claimed to sympathise with Hitler and was promptly banned from the fest.
Von Trier was eventually welcomed back in 2018 for the premiere of his new serial killer movie The House That Jack Built, which immediately courted controversy for its numerous nauseating depictions of murder.
2018 also saw Cannes deciding to screen movies to the press after the premiere for the first time, in order to prevent the premiere's mood being sullied by critical pannings.
Hilariously, this resulted in the unsuspecting premiere audience having little idea of quite what they were walking into - even for the standards of a von Trier movie.
The more memorably grotesque sequences in the film include a woman (Uma Thurman) having her head caved in with a broken car jack, two boys being shot with a sniper rifle, and a woman (Riley Keough) having both of her breasts cut off.
Von Trier's clear desire to shock resulted in more than 100 people walking out of the premiere, vocally slamming the film as "vile" and "disgusting" as they left, while critics gleefully rubbed their hands and patiently waited to see the movie for themselves the next morning.