Some Weird, Weird Crap Is Going Down at Sundance. Frighteningly Weird.

If there were ever a time where an idiotic “trigger warning” was actually needed, this would be it. On Thursday, Josh Dickey, a film writer at Mashable, gave the world an exclusive behind-the-scenes account of the much-ballyhooed Sundance Film Festival. Dickey’s bizarre and frightening “tale of depravity” included two occasions of almost full-on suffocation, sucking on a tampon—which he pulled out of girls, ya know—and hiding a piece of paper in his mouth from “him.” If “disturbing” was what the freaks over at Sundance were going for, they nailed it.

The film writer recounts being asked to attend an “exclusive” “Blackout” and quickly accepting without a second thought or a simple “Will this leave me traumatized?” question. When he arrived, he was led into a house where “the windows were covered in black trash bags, the front entrance was blocked by a security guard and the people there to receive me on the alternate side entrance seemed rather … grim.”