JESSICA ALBA LEFT THE SCREENING OF OWN MOVIE AFTER THE AUDIENCE BECAME OUTRAGED OVER THE VIOLENCE!

Jessica Alba left halfway through a screening of her own movie.
The actress slipped out midway through the Sunday premiere of "The Killer Inside Me," a movie stirring outrage at Sundance for its violence toward women, reports the Toronto Star.

"Killer" stars Casey Affleck as a small town Texas sheriff, Lou Ford, who is revealed to be psychotic. He punches and kicks two female characters, played by Alba and Kate Hudson, to a bloody pulp. In the case of Alba's character, one scene which shows her being graphically beaten goes on for several minutes.

Alba did not return for the Monday screening where the British director, Michael Winterbottom, was confronted by angry audience members demanding to know why it was necessary to show such gratuitous violence toward women.

Winterbottom, who appeared shaken by the audience reaction, according to the Star, defended himself by pointing out that the film was based on a 1952 pulp novel by Jim Thompson.

"It's the not the real world. It's kind of a parallel version of the real world. . . . I was taken in by that world," he said.

"Although there is a lot of violence in it and obviously there's a lot of violence directed toward women, there's also a lot of tenderness," he added.

Many of the audience members weren't buying it. The movie also includes sadistic lovemaking scenes in which the sheriff spanks Alba and Hudson's characters, the Star reports.

Alba's character is a prostitute while Hudson plays Affleck's girlfriend. Neither Hudson nor Affleck were at the Park City festival for the screenings.