The Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland finally premiered at Sundance Film Festival this weekend, and apparently it was more disturbing than anticipated. 

According to Variety, police officers guarded the theater to manage any potential protests, and healthcare professionals were seated in the lobby offering support to any audience members who were upset by the documentary’s content. 

Halfway through, viewers started gabbing about “sickening” claims from James Safechuck and Wade Robson, both of whom say they endured years of Michael’s inappropriate behaviors and manipulation.

Film critics and reviewers took to Twitter and instantly word got out that the movie is, well, not for the faint of heart. 

it’s halftime at the four-hour Michael Jackson doc and I’m already gonna need 400 showers to ever feel clean again. #Sundance

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) January 25, 2019

On a 10-min break halfway through Sundance’s 4-hour Michael Jackson child sex abuse documentary. Whatever you thought you knew or were aware of, the content of this is more disturbing than you could imagine. And again, we’re only halfway through.

— Kevin Fallon (@kpfallon) January 25, 2019

LEAVING NEVERLAND (PART 2): Focuses on the aftermath of the alleged sexual abuse from #MichaelJackson on the lives of the now grown men, their never-ending psychological upheaval & trauma, plus the effect on their torn families. Shocking, sad, disturbing, devastating. #Sundance pic.twitter.com/1fZU5nLJ2Z

— Scott Mantz (@MovieMantz) January 25, 2019

Painful. Brutally upsetting. Triggering. My heart is incredibly broken. I’m sorry y’all. This hurts. Bad. #LeavingNeverland

— Gerrick D. Kennedy (@GerrickKennedy) January 25, 2019

It is all very disturbing but the realizations that the sustained abuse Michael Jackson alledgely inflicted on Wade Robson occurred when he was only 7 just makes you want to vomit. #LeavingNeverland https://t.co/kp7va8t0pR

— Nicole Sperling (@nicsperling) January 25, 2019

Safechuck: "From the get go, there was no money ever offered (from the production.) We never expected anything. This was rly just trying to tell the story and shine light on it, the same way knowing that Wade went through it, we can give them that same connection and comfort."

— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) January 25, 2019