Even before “it” happened, tonight’s screening of Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazhakstan - or simply Borat to those in the know - would have been the single strangest Midnight Madness I had ever attended. A three hundred person rush line, a throng of people outside the Ryerson chanting “BORAT! BORAT! BORAT!”, and Sacha Baron Cohen arriving on the red carpet in character… and riding a horse.

Then the projector broke.

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