You're a Bunch of Factors

A Bollywood filmmaker has issued a lucrative challenge to horror movie fans: a $10,000 reward for anyone who can watch his latest supernatural thriller, alone, in a cinema until the closing credits. Ram Gopal Varma’s “Phoonk 2,” a sequel to his 2008 film of the same name, is about an evil spirit that traumatizes a family.

“Anyone who says the movie cannot scare him is going to be put in a theater by himself,” Varma told reporters in Mumbai at an event to promote the movie. Varma said the film fan who steps up to the challenge will be wired up to a heart monitoring machine as well as a camera that ensures they keep their eyes open during the whole movie. Readings from the machines will be shown live on a screen outside the cinema, Varma said, and if the contestant succeeds, they will win 500,000 rupees (approximately $10,850)…

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Did you read the blurb where the first one might have been a publicity stunt, he chose who he wanted to do it.

Another guy, hired the cinema to himself, had a doctor on standby, went through the movie and still didn't get paid.

Makes you wonder.

The first what was a warning? The first movie?

PUBLICITY STOONT!

$10,000 is cheap for all the attention it'll create