Could a movie kill you? 

"Died of overexcitement..." Sure, sounds perfectly plausible. "...watching James Cameron's Avatar" * falls on floor laughing *

I saw the title and thought "Foodfight!"

I suppose dying of excitement wouldn't be the worst way to die.

What about "The Ring", people died with heart attack watching it, which was very ironic.

Batman vs Superman made me want to kill myself I guess that's pretty close.

I really enjoy the entire 3 minutes and 22 seconds this episode spends at the end on bringing light to the comments from the previous episode. It really gives a feeling of empowerment by the voice of the fans. Keep it up, members of _This Exists_!

I click on a post titled "This movie could kill you" and watch a 30 second AD featuring guacamole. We are in fact doomed and are going to die

I've almost been killed by boredom watching certain movies, does that count?

anime could kill you

Every time I see Norman Reedus I don't think of walking dead. I think of boondock saints.

Hi, Rob brought me here and you just got a new subscriber :D

Idk I saw A Clockwork Orange over 300 times. If any movie could kill you it would be that movie. However, all it did was taught me how to speak Russian.

Oh you blew up not mentioning "Man Behind The Sun". It was Chinese movie about Imperial Japanese Medical Experiment Unit. 16 viewers died of heart attack during the screenings.

I love this channel! I learn something new every episode!

I'm surprised "The Messenger" didn't get mentioned. I don't know if the movie ever finished, but 43 people (including the director) were killed in the Kolka-Kamadon rock slide after the second day of shooting the movie.

Could you do similar episode but on video games? Unless you already did, of course.

I would love to see more videos about movies, video games and other stuff. Good job, you just got a new subscriber.

Now I'm really looking forward to that episode about pop music being manufactured and stuff. Really interesting concept and idea.

The fact that you mention "Cigarette Burns" , which is one of my favorite movies (hypercult, made me listen to the song Rite of Spring by Stravinski and in turn that lead me to avand garde classical music) is reason enough to subscribe. Keep it up, your videos are very informative.

Daring people to watch a movie that could kill you is like saying, I bet you can't eat these chicken wings because they are too spicey and you will walk away crying. Of course people are going to do it then, you challenged them

Watched every episode now, can't wait for more!

I recommend you guys to check up Videodrome. The plot asks how much media can control us. All is done in a very psychological and nasty way with dark undertones.

Anything in art that can provoke a strong emotional response and reaches a lot of people is probably going to do something like that at some point. It's like Stendhal having a literal fit when he looked upon Giotto's frescoes for the first time.

All the bands in the backdrop is one of the reasons I subscribed.

THIS EXISTS should do an episode on all the films that have disturbed people to the point they fainted or had to leave the theatre. SALO, IRREVERSIBLE, etc.

dude fuckin love your videos really new stuff haven't heard them anywhere

The Old School flyers behind you got me to sub!!!!

cigarette burns was the shit, my favorite "masters of horror"

Wait, I may have accidentally seen that episode of "Masters of Horror" when I was younger. That or it was a similar premise of a guy playing a cursed movie in a theater, and I am pretty sure I had the foresight to run out of the room.

The true "THIS EXISTS?" moment of this episode was John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

This channel is great!

im literally just watching this show and gettin into it and i get to 5:43 and ???

I don't know, "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny" just about killed me, even with Rifftrax...

The second he said the death by laughter thing I thought of the Monty Python joke skit X3

NightHawkInLight brought me here. Cool channel, subbed.

Well, I think a movie could turn someone into a murderer only if the movie would create such intense emotions and hatred in someone's mind that he turns insane and goes on a rampage. But, of course, such a movie does not exist; and I hope it won't ever exist. Movies do create emotions, but at that intensity, it would be very hard to achieve.

I think people use movies as an excuse, to avoid responsibility. People have also used video games to blame murder and death.

Lmao I knew about the conqueror from the cinema snob episode, I even paused the video just for the chance to say "is that the movie where john wayne plays genghis khan on a set near a nuclear testing plant?" out loud

I thought this episode would be about stuff like people getting epilepsy attacks during a movie and dying.

A film that kills is at the center of the plot (well, -ish) of "Infinite Jest." The movie in question is so entertaining that viewers lose interest in anything other than watching it, and eventually die. Of course, David Foster Wallace was trying to make a grander point about the American craze for passive entertainment, but it fits really well with the idea of a movie (or song) killing you. Highly recommended, and it's really quite funny-though not so funny that I died or anything.

"The 2 people who died from the Passion of the Christ." You mean other than Jacob and Jesus? XD

HAHAHA THE CHUBACA EFFECT SOUTH PARK HAHA

First of all I'd like to thank you for the book recommendation. Ken Russell's "The Devils" is a favourite film (and God knows you have to search high and wide for a version as uncut as possible). Michael Gothard's portrayal as Father Barre is so over the top manic and religiously devotional it almost overshadows the nuns' behaviour. I wouldn't however say that Russell was affected that much negatively. "The Devils" was his break-through feature and after that he made "Tommy" for The Who, the "biopics" "Lisztomania" and "Valentino", the brilliant "Altered States" and the underrated "Gothic". Now on to the topic. Unfortunately the "Matrix defense" works, which sets a precedence. Tonda Lynn Ansley (Hamilton, Ohio) was found not guilty by reason of insanity after claiming she thought her landlord was part of a conspiracy to brainwash and kill her (in July 2002), reasoning that she was in the Matrix. She was not the only one to try to pull that defense off. What is more troubling is that philosophers agree that we, our universe might be a simulation, a sort of "The Sims" (NY Times article "Is The Universe A Simulation?", February 14th, 2014, among other articles of this sort). I say troubling because the penal code and judicial system are faced with this huge issue regarding free will, determinism and pure insanity. How are they equipped to handle it? Also let's not forget the many horses that died during the racing scenes of "Ben Hur" (the original one from 1925) and "The Charge of The Lightning Brigade". Back then it was a bad time to be a horse in Hollywood. The original "Ben Hur" also featured a sea battle where the director used extras that were pro- and anti-fascists to create real tension and animosity and gave them sharpened prop swords to fight with. He also set one of the ships on fire, sending the extras diving for their lives and re-appearing days later (probably to cash their check and spit in the eye of the director, I can only guess). "Casablanca" director Michael Curtiz filmed in 1928 "Noah's Ark" the Biblical narrative. When it came to the flood scene he failed however to inform the cast that he'd drop gallons of water over them without any precautions. The star Dolores Costello caught a severe case of pneumonia, another actor broke his ribs and according to a stuntman three extras drowned and one had to have his leg amputated. So I would say that yes, movies can kill you, if you star in them and the director is batshit rat house insane who tortures his cast (coughHitchcockKubrikcough) or just plain negligence (the original wicked witch in "The Wizard of Oz" got skin burns or something and had to be hospitalized from the green paint they used on her skin). If you're just watching them however, well just make sure you've got your heart attack pills near. You don't want to die during a Animal Planet documentary of a jump scare of a cheetah attacking a gazelle.

Yes! I knew you were going to talk about Cigarette Burns, that's where I learned of this idea as well. The Masters Of Horror Series is some of the best series/collection of horror movies I've seen in the past decade, for anyone interested I highly recommend it.

Very good video it also reminds me of heath ledger and how he got so caught u in the roll of the movie

Funny that the dude WHO died of laughter was a doctor at my dads School. I had already heard the story from him, so suprised me when i heard it here.

'Rich guy from Ace Ventura' is Udo Kier who was in Argento's Suspiria as well as six von Trier films. I'll watch a movie just because he's in it!

Well, yes and no. It's kind of looking back at the "Can Music make you want to commit suicide?" video you made. In a way. All I can say is that the movie has to be pretty compelling to drive you to kill. So, it's not too far fetched. Just depends on how real you make the movie seem.

Chewbacca doesn't live on Endor.

The Chewbacca defense tricked me into giving you a sub

TBH the punk rock backdrop is why I started watching your videos

Excitement is probably the most crazy way to die. He died doing what he loved. Watching avatar.

It has been also speculated though that the great amount of people who were making The Conqueror getting cancer could be at least partially fault of the smoking habits, since back then, especially in film industry, people smoked an awful lot.

A man with heart problems died watching an episode of the Goodies (old British Children show) from laughing. I think it was the Ecky Thump episode.

Now I'm afraid of enjoying a movie too much. I have to brace myself in the future to not get too excited or scream laughing

I keep getting distracted by the awesome band posters in the backgound.

The world felt a little distant and I felt a bit depressed after watching requiem for a dream

I'm shocked that there aren't any references to The Ring.

i believe movies can indeed make ppl kill really unlikely if youre mentally healty but specially if you suffer from some kind paranoia or you are easely influenced well than it just could happen

A young boy died in the movie theater when he went to watch Alien vs Predator. He got scared a panicked and choked the popcorn he was eating.

There is a College Professor I once had that asked his students every year does art and entertainment influence life or does life influence art and entertainment, only one person ever got the question right when they pointed out that both influence each other so in a way yes art/entertainment can kill yet people can inspire what we see and hear just the same way.

Ok, so I guess "A Fish Called Wanda" has become a weapon of mass destruction.

I almost died laughing, my face turned purple due to lack of oxygen

Love that episode of Masters of Horror

R.I.P Aaliyah, you will be missed.

The binge watching starts here

cig burns always blew my mind

Hoawd up. John Wayne played Ghengis Khan? That's more surprising than movie-related​ deaths.

Well, I know watching, "Breaking Dawn Pt.1" damn near killed me, but then again...every Twilight movie I was dragged to nearly put me in an early grave. Damn that shit sucked ass.

I think that it's not the movie itself that would hypothetically drive you to kill, but instead the mental stability of the person watching it. There are some truly screwed up people in the world that can't separate reality from fiction.

Twilight Zone: The Movie definitely counts as a movie with a cursed history behind it.

I live in the UK and The Devils is extremely easy to get hold of over here, even being able to get the original, uncensored version on amazon. One thing that was missed out in the video was that when Avatar was released it caused several people to become severely depressed, even suicidal, due to the fact that they can't live on the films fictional planet of Pandora. That said, as far as I am aware, nobody actually did commit suicide from seeing the film.

I watched "Titanic" once and was driven to suicide. Only problem was, it's hard as hell to find a gun in a quiet, Canadian neighbourhood.

Don't forget the ban by Conservative Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw of a Clockwork Orange which lasted 29 years and the case of a man dying of laughter at British comedy The Goodies and episode entitled Kung-Fu Dungongs and the infamous attempted assassination of Ronald Regan whose would-be assassin was made to do this supposedly to impress Jodie Foster a key fact in the cases of Clockwork Orange and the assassination of Ronald Regan is the difficulity to differentiate fantasy from reality;

The literary equivalent I guess would be The King in Yellow, a play so mind blowing that whoever read it went bonkers.

Im dead heed my warning dont watch the video

0:25 my fav movie director ever is Argento and my fav movie ever is Suspiria (the one on my shirt XD) 😂😂😂

I didnt even know that This Exist, exsist

another thing to consider are films like Birth of a Nation; nobody died while watching it but it was an important catalyst to the resurgence of the KKK.

I watched Passion of the Christ in theatres and they had to evacuate the theatre half way through. Turns out some lady forgot to take her blood pressure medication and had a heart attack. I would assume she lived.

You sir, earned a sub.

i got this comment from a "top 20 lost horror movies" list, but it still fits p well. Awesome list, but I feel like you guys missed a BIG one here: A film called "La Rage du Démon (Fury of the Demon)" made in 1897 supposedly made people go insane upon its initial release. It was apparently created by one of the greatest filmmakers/illusionists of our time Georges Méliès, however, many people believe that it was actually a forgery crafted by one of Melies’ pupils, someone who was obsessed with magic and the occult named Sicarious. Regardless, they showed the film back to back with another movie directed by Tod Browning (Freaks (1932) and Dracula (1931)) called "Miracles for Sale"; however, they played "La Rage du Démon" first, and what followed was an audience going absolutely insane in a fit of mass-hysteria. People apparently ripped their hair out and fought each other, and a fire broke out in the theater as well, killing 6 people. Just recently in 2012, a rare film collector named Edgar Allen Wallace got a hold of the film and decided to screen it for a group of film scholars and critics for the very first time since its first release; and once again, people went absolutely insane and violence broke out upon watching it. There is actually a documentary about the film under the same name that is premiering at a bunch of film festivals at the moment, and they even got the chance to interview some of the audience members from the very first screening in 1939. If anyone is at all interested, you can read an article on the documentary and the film itself here: www.blumhouse.com/2016/07/22/can-viewing-this-film-really-cause-you-to-go-insane/ or you can visit the film's imdb page here: www.imdb.com/title/tt4161438/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 There has not been a release date for the documentary as of yet, but it is said to be coming out very soon, so keep your eye out for it

In my opinion, crazy people are crazy people no matter what. I don't think it is fair to blame a movie because of what it inspired someone to do. Blaming or censoring media because of how someone MAY interpret it is wrong. Now, it is absolutely true that any form of art has the ability to bring out great emotions and feelings, but how are we to know what one of millions of people will take out of any particular movie, show, song, etc.? However, it would certainly be interesting if someone had made a movie with the intent of inspiring murder. Are people easily manipulated enough that it would actually work? I'm under the impression that it have to do with how well it is presented, but I wonder if films that are supposed to be used as some sort of propaganda are effective at all.

would you ever do an episode based on controversial video games or other types of media like Super RPG Columbine Massacre and how they actually have a purpose of teaching? [based of a documentary I seen]

What movie was the clip from at the very beginning from

is this a theme that goes along with 'can music kill you?' "can inanimate objects kill you?" yes, yes it can.

Boondox is on the Psychopathic label. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon_(Boondox_album)

The Oklahoma Bomber thought he was Luke Skywalker and the Federal Building was the Death Star.

Why are the episodes only HALF about the title? That feels wrong to me.

Do copycat crimes count? Scream, A Clockwork Orange, etc. I think that would be a fun topic for an episode.

The original "Gloomy Sunday" would be an interesting cross-comparison. "Tourniquet Man" by The Mars Volta has some interesting history, even just limiting it to the band.

Anyone who would kill because of what they saw or read from an entertainment source was already mentally sick.

I am not joking on this one, the Twilight movie has killed two people, one was in a movie theater who went to watch it and just died in his seat. The other one was a girl at Comic Con 2012, she ran into traffic to meet the stars of the show / movie. She was launched 50 feet and I didn't think you can guess where I'm going with this.

The Devil's is hard to find? I just heard of that film now, went on PirateBay, and found an uncut version

If you want to watch the devils it's on XBMC via MashUp And it's crazy as hell

I'm pretty sure there are some videos that have caused people to kill themselves or (try to) murder the creator(s) of the video. That would be because they all suck so bad.

Came here from Game Theory. And I can tell I'm going to like this. Subscribed!

What was the movie called at the beggining where the kid goes into a movie? It looks really cool and I want to see it.

Well I suppose that depends on your perspective, is what influences someones psychosis responsible for that influence? I mean I've seen the ten commandments and I didn't get influenced to harm any women, but I'm capable of separating what's on a screen from reality. Not everyone has that capability, and it's nearly impossible for a normal person to predict what may or may not influence someone who's suffering a break from reality. From the affected persons perspective it was the movie that convinced them killing and/or dying was a good idea but someone else would probably see it as them being crazy.

In my opinion, James Cameron's AVATAR 1-3 Could Kill ME!