Every now again there’s a film at the cinema that just leaves you thinking ‘what the f**k’.
And filling that duty at the moment seems to be the recently-released Saltburn.
You know, that film where Barry Keoghan ‘drinks’ Jacob Elordi’s ‘c*m’?
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Ok, let’s have a little more context.
Released in cinemas last month, Saltburn is directed by Promising Young Woman Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell and also stars Richard E. Grant and Rosamund Pike.
The R-rated thriller’s synopsis reads: “A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.”
And you can bet viewers won’t be able to forget watching it either.
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A ‘black comedy psychological thriller’ Saltburn features some rather wild, explicit, erotic scenes, from naked dance numbers to a nude Keoghan humping the ground of a cemetery.
Yeah, got the picture yet?
But not everyone has been totally prepared for the wild film when going to see it at the cinema.
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I mean, can you imagine the shock of thinking you’re going to see a fun Keoghan and Elordi friendship pairing only to see the Irishman licking up what the Aussie left behind after wanking into a bath?
A TikTok video shows ‘just two girls who watched Saltburn without researching the plot’ after they went just to see the Euphoria star.
And it’s fair to say they were pretty stunned.
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Asking Fennell ‘what tha hell’, the clip shows them open-mouthed for the entirety of their evening, looking totally traumatised.
Backing up their absolute shock, users echoed their own experience in the comments, writing: “I saw it today and I don’t remember what life was like before Saltburn.”
Another even put: “I woke up in a cold sweat the morning after seeing Saltburn.”
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Others warn viewers will ‘never look at Barry the same again’ as one writes: “When I tell you I could not pick my jaw up.”
And one also says: “So many things in that movie are permanently cemented into my head.”
Elordi recently spoke to Variety about that semen scene as he said: “I was like, ‘Thank God, it’s mine.’ I was very proud. I was very proud to have Barry Keoghan guzzling it like that.”
And Keoghan kept up the joke in his response: “He doesn’t text me back or ring me back.
“It’s so weird. He’s pretending to like me. It’s weird, man.”
Well, if you’re planning to see Saltburn, take this as your warning.
Topics: TV and Film, Viral
Jess Battison