Cineworld shows children Paranormal instead of Madagascar

[Lee]

CHILDREN preparing to watch Madagascar 3 at a cinema fled in terror after bungling staff put on hair-raising horror film Paranormal Activity by mistake.

Parents were shocked when the opening scenes from the thriller started playing instead of the family cartoon flick.
Kids started crying as the opening scene showed a woman's bloodied corpse being hurled at the camera.
Around 25 families at Nottingham's Cineworld were forced to scramble for the exits with their children – some as young as five.
Angry mum Natasha Lewis, 32, accompanied her eight-year-old son Dylan to the screening which took place at 10.30am on Saturday.
She said: "We sat down and it was meant to start at 10am, but it took until 10.30am for the lights to go down and for the trailers to start.

Blunder ... the horror film was put on at Cineworld in Nottingham
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"They started playing the movie and I thought - this doesn't look right. And then I recognised the opening sequence as a flashback to the first movie, which I saw a couple of years ago.
"It opens on the most terrifying scene in the first film – where a body shoots full pelt towards the camera.
“It's enough to make grown men jump, so you can imagine the terror in these young faces.
"Everybody just scrambled for the exits, all you could hear were children crying and screaming. Everyone was very upset.
“It was only about two minutes worth of the film but it was enough to scar them for life.”
Natasha was fully refunded by staff who also offered customers the chance to see Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted on another screen.
Cineworld apologised and said measures are being taken to ensure it does not happen again.


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Epic mistake on their behalf!

[tm]

LMFAO! I would have loved to be in on that.

[Cerys]

LOL. Ah I would've loved that.

'scar them for life' yeah, sure. A small clip of film will REALLY scar someone.

[MKR&*42]

LOL. Ah I would've loved that.

'scar them for life' yeah, sure. A small clip of film will REALLY scar someone.

Entirely possible. People can gain phobias from one "tiny" incident as a child.

I feel sorry the children and the fact they had to see that, lord knows how one can make such a mistake.

[Cerys]

o. i apologise. i didnt realise you could have a phobia of dead bodies flying towards you.

[MKR&*42]

o. i apologise. i didnt realise you could have a phobia of dead bodies flying towards you.

Is there a need to be such a **** towards it Cerys? I used phobias as an example... not that they're directly going to get a phobia from seeing that dead body :rolleyes:

They're kids, kids are incredibly easy to scare and film age ratings are there for a reason. Stuff people experience as a child can have a lasting effect on them throughout life.

Do you think it's acceptable we go around showing kids stuff like the Human Centipede, Final Destination and The Exorcist then?...

[Cerys]

I believe that it is not real. And the majority of kids these days view movies like that from a young age, so it clearly can not have that much of an effect on them.
And I'm not being a **** to it, I'm giving my views '_'


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I respect your opinions, no matter if we differ in them. Let's agree to disagree :3

[MKR&*42]

I believe that it is not real. And the majority of kids these days view movies like that from a young age, so it clearly can not have that much of an effect on them.
And I'm not being a **** to it, I'm giving my views '_'

You are being satirical to my comparison of the phobias...

As for the bold = John Veneables and Robert Thompson both watched horror movies (and a fair amount) - e.g. Child's Play 3 - as a child (before they were 11 this is) and some believe their inspiration to kill James Bulger (a very young child - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger) was acquired from such films - please still tell me they have no effect.

* Yes I'm aware these children were younger
** Yes there's a small chance inspiration wasn't from those films, but it still had an impact
*** Yes I'm aware that's an extreme.
- The point still stands, it affects children, just as violent video games have an effect slightly (not murder-wise necessarily..)

[Samantha]

A refund is fine and good (and the chance to see the proper movie) but like Warren said they could easily be scarred, maybe not for life as some may grow out of it but even I don't watch scary movies so I know it would even frighten me too (especially as no one was expecting it). Surely then, when the message came up which film it was it said Madagascar 3 instead of Paranormal Activity 4? That's the first mistake and then goes on to the wrong film.

[Cerys]

You are being satirical to my comparison of the phobias...

As for the bold = John Veneables and Robert Thompson both watched horror movies (and a fair amount) - e.g. Child's Play 3 - as a child (before they were 11 this is) and some believe their inspiration to kill James Bulger (a very young child - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger) was acquired from such films - please still tell me they have no effect.

* Yes I'm aware these children were younger
** Yes there's a small chance inspiration wasn't from those films, but it still had an impact
*** Yes I'm aware that's an extreme.
- The point still stands, it affects children, just as violent video games have an effect slightly (not murder-wise necessarily..)

Like I said, I respect your views, no matter if we differ in them.

I feel that it's just a movie, get over it. Whereas you feel opposite.

*and the bit about James Bulger... I feel the movie doesn't have any impact on how they acted. I mean, I have watched dozens of 'scary' films, but I don't run around being agressive or acting any differently to someone who has never watched a scary movie.*