'The Walk': 3-D Film Literally Making Viewers Vomit In Theaters (TWEETS)

"The Walk," a retelling of the story of Philipe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his infamous 1974 tightrope walk between New York City's Twin Towers, is making people vomit.

The film held press screenings this week, and a number of critics said that it made them feel queasy. After the film's premiere Saturday night, several audience members complained that they felt physically ill after watching a particular scene in the film, The Guardian reported.

Turns out, a 3-D, 20-minute tightrope scene in the movie, set at a terrifying height, is giving people vertigo and triggering some serious nausea.

"Reports of guys vomiting in the Alice Tully men's rm post-The Walk: True," tweeted journalist Mark Harris. "Witnessed it/came close. Bad visual trigger for vertigo sufferers."

"The last 20 minutes of the film I had to look away a couple of times because of the sensation of the height," said Denise Widman, board director of the Boston Jewish film festival, according to The New York Post. "I felt a little bit queasy. I felt nervous. It was a tingling sensation and some anxiety."

"It felt very real. I felt a knot in my stomach. It's like my head was reeling but I was not dizzy," said Percial Arguero-Mendoza, a Mexican film-maker. "The audience got a fear of him falling. It's like actually picturing in your mind him falling. You really get a sense of depth."

The aim was "to evoke the feeling of vertigo," said the film's director Robert Zemeckis, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "We worked really hard to put the audience up on those towers and on that wire."

Well, mission accomplished, Mr. Zemeckis!

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Film, Vertigo, 3d, Scene, Robert Zemeckis, Sick