ellen wright is a senior lecturer in cinema and television history at de montfort university leicesterociety, which has more than 100 independent horrorfilm makers as members. jessica, how was it for you?” jessica, how was it for you? i think the reason i am here is that i wrote a scathing review of lars von trier‘s the house that jack built and it was a film i absolutely loathed and i think one of the issues that we are bringing up here issues that we are bringing up here is about the violence against women, but i think i should also say that i loathed the film from the bottom of my soul, not just loathed the film from the bottom of my soul, notjust because i am a woman andi my soul, notjust because i am a woman and i didn't like seeing those a cts woman and i didn't like seeing those acts of violence, but because i'm a film critic and it's a very bad film. did you walk out? i did not walk out. i'm a critic so i can't. you stayed till the end. as you saw people getting up to leave, did it shock you or not? it's unusual because i was at the gala premiere and it's unusual for people in