A Spider-Man screening had to be evacuated after a filmgoer suffered a bout of extreme flatulence.
The screening of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was abandoned mid-film when the attendee’s overpowering farts filled the room yesterday (2 Aug).
Cinema-goers watching the latest movie in the franchise fled their seats after the intense odour made the darkened auditorium intolerable.
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Hundreds of viewers were evacuated into the corridor, as reported by Need To Know.
Footage showed crowds milling outside the screen, some covering their faces, while a costumed Spider-Man character mingled among them.
The perpetrator has not been identified and remains anonymous, with reports stating the individual either failed to reach the toilets in time or released a stink bomb as a prank.
The incident took place at the Cine Colombia multiplex inside the Plaza Bocagrande shopping centre in Cartagena, Colombia.
Social media users reacted with a mixture of outrage and dark humour, one commenting: “There’s no respect any more, but I don’t think anyone is so rotten as to evacuate an entire auditorium.”
Another person wrote: “It must have been someone playing a joke and it went wrong.”
A third user said: “To ruin a whole cinema like that, only God knows what that person ate.”
Many described the unknown culprit as the film’s unexpected “villain”.
The screening was not cancelled by staff, although large numbers of patrons chose to leave before the end.
Despite the disruption, no one was reported injured and the cinema continued operating other screens as normal.
The latest Spider-Man film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Tom Holland, continues its run at the Plaza Bocagrande complex and other venues across the city.
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