10 Times People Died While Watching Movies
5. A Man Died Of Alcohol Poisoning During Twilight: Eclipse
Many of us have joked about how we'd rather die than watch a Twilight movie, but tragically, that scenario actually came true for a 23-year-old homeless man in July 2010.
Without buying a ticket, the unemployed Damian Anthony Smythe found his way into a screening of the third entry in the Twilight series - Eclipse - in a cinema in Wellington. Taking his seat to watch the film, Smythe began to drink a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label whiskey, before he slumped forward and began to have a nap.
It wasn't until theatre staff started to clean the screen up that Smythe was found, his face blue and cold, with an empty one-litre whiskey bottle beside him. An ambulance was called, but it was already too late: Smythe had died of alcohol poisoning towards the end of the film.
Smythe had a lot of personal troubles, and didn't have much support in his life. It was thought that these circumstances contributed to his drinking problem, and subsequently, his death, at a frustratingly young age. The Twilight series sucks, but it's definitely better than that.