Roger Ebert walked out after being rattled by Liam Neeson’s The Grey

Collider reports that Roger Ebert said he was so rattled by Liam Neeson’s survival thriller The Grey that he walked out of his next screening.

According to the report, Ebert did not name the other film and said it was the first time he had ever walked out because of a previous movie he had seen that day. He said "The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film" and that he was "stunned with despair" by The Grey's ending. The film follows Neeson and a crew of oil‑refinery workers stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, stalked and picked off by wolves until Neeson must confront the pack's alpha; the cast includes Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts and James Badge Dale. The Grey holds an 80 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, made nearly $80 million worldwide and, per Box Office Mojo, almost recouped its $25 million budget on opening weekend; it was directed by Joe Carnahan, written by Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, and runs 117 minutes with a listed release date of January 27, 2012.

Ebert wrote of the "mounting dread" he felt and said he had been assuring himself the movie "had to have a happy ending" or some relief, but the film does not offer a traditional happy ending and includes an ambiguous post‑credits scene that left matters unresolved. He did not identify the film he left, so which screening he abandoned remains unknown.