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On Thursday, audiences got a taste of just how disturbing the new film is shaping up to be, when Guadagnino screened a clip at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Variety reports. After a light lunch of quinoa salad and white chocolate tarts, the director asked everyone if they were done eating—but what he was about to show them turned out to be the cinematic equivalent of sticking your fingers down your throat.

According to Variety, the clip went a little like this: While a ballerina pirouettes in one room, her movements somehow wreak absolute hell on another dancer—whose body is systematically ripped apart into a mound of broken bones, piss, blood, and spit, one painful contortion at a time. Just a short clip from the movie was enough to explain why Johnson told Elle filming Suspiria "fucked me up so much that I had to go to therapy"—and was almost enough to make everyone who watched it vomit.