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You can’t have a memorable Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival without 911 being called — right?

The programme features screenings of the goriest and scariest horror films, with one in particular having left audiences in fear on early Tuesday morning at the Ryerson Theatre.

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Raw, a French-Belgian film that follows a vegetarian’s journey to becoming a cannibal (yes, really), was so graphic midway through, that multiple audience members passed out and an ambulance had to be called, with some possibly even having vomited from sheer terror.

“An ambulance had to be called to the scene as the film became too much for a couple patrons,” the film’s publicist, Ryan Werner, said to The Hollywood Reporter, adding that the only other time he’s seen such a reaction to a film was Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (in which genital mutilation occurs in one particularly memorable scene).