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From: FJB

11/2/2018 8:10:18 AM

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Matt Dillon Insists He’s ‘OK That People Are Upset’ By New Film the House That Jack Built After More Than 100 People Walked Out of Cannes Premiere

It caused mass walkouts at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, with critics bashing the movie for being ‘vomitive’ and ‘pathetic’.

But Matt Dillon has insisted he’s ‘glad’ he took part in Lars Von Trier’s controversial new film The House That Jack Built, and said he is ‘OK’ with the negative reaction…

In the film, Matt stars as Jack, a serial killer with more than 60 deaths to his name who relishes bloodshed and plots increasingly horrifying ways to inflict death.

The House That Jack Built follows the serial killer over the course of 12 years in the 1970s and 1980s during a murder spree in the state of Washington.

The film marked the return for director Lars von Trier at the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie debuted in May, where it was criticised for being ‘vomitive’ and ‘pathetic’.

Over 100 people were reported to have walked out of the film’s screening at the French festival, as they were ‘disgusted’ by the many extremely violent scenes where victims including children were graphically murdered on screen…

Al Jazeera reporter Charlie Angela said she left midway through ‘because seeing children being shot and killed is not art or entertainment’…

In February, Von Trier explained the film was inspired by Donald Trump’s presidency: ‘The House That Jack Built celebrates the idea that life is evil and soulless, which is sadly proven by the recent rise of the Homo trumpus — the rat king.’

[Comment: Another torture-porn movie disguised as “art” by Lars von Trier.]

— Hat tip: JD

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