Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/19/avatar_death/
Avatar kills Taiwanese man
3D excitement beyond endurance
Posted in Bootnotes, 19th January 2010 12:08 GMT
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Blockbuster movie Avatar has added to its impressive list of accomplishments - which to date include inducing suicidal despair [1], attracting Golden Globes [2], provoking civil unrest [3] and creating a plethora of Pandoras [4] - by killing a Taiwanese man overcome by the 3D experience.
According to AFP, the 42-year-old cinemagoer, surnamed Kuo, had a history of high blood pressure and suffered a stroke while watching the film in in the northern city of Hsinchu.
He was taken to hospital unconscious, where a scan revealed "his brain was haemorrhaging". He died 11 days later.
Emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih told AFP: "It's likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms."
The China Times reported that the incident represented "the first death linked to watching James Cameron's science-fiction epic". ®