9 People You Won't Believe Actually Died Watching Famous Movies

6. A 23-Year-Old Man Drunk Himself To Death During A Screening Of Twilight: Eclipse

And he's the lucky one, right? Right? Okay, so that's it for the "Twilight is so bad that somebody died whilst watching it" jokes (for now). This has to be one of the downright weirdest movie-related deaths ever, purely because 23-year-old Damian Anthony Smythe purposely snuck into a movie theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, to watch Twilight, and no amount of detective work or science will ever be able to find out why ANYBODY would want to that. But seriously... The young man reportedly walked into the theatre at around 6pm with a bottle Johnny Walker Red Label as his only company, and proceeded to drink until he fell asleep. And then, somewhat bizarrely, he just never woke up - the movie theatre cleaners found him, cold and blue-faced, with the empty whiskey bottle beside him. Cause of death: Alcohol poisoning. The only good thing that came of this, then, was that the poor guy didn't have to sit through the whole movie.
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