People flee on opening night for The Nightengale!!

Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is an amazing film with a big following and even has the Babadook as a Gay Icon now. She is back with The Nightengale. At a recent screening in Sydney audience members were fleeing.

ABC reports:
At the Sydney premiere on Sunday at the Ritz cinema in Randwick, one woman walked out during the early stages, shouting: “I’m not watching this. She’s already been raped twice.” 

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Clare, a young Irish convict, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness and is bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence the man committed against her family. On the way, she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy, who is marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

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Comes to the U.S. on August 2nd. Starring: Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, and Aisling Franciosi.

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