A group of children are certainly going to be scarred for life after staff at a movie theater showed the latest Paranormal Activity movie instead of fun-loving Madagascar 3.
The youngsters were brought by their families to the Cineworld cinema in Nottingham, England on Saturday, and were expecting to see hilarious, animated talking animals.
Instead, the children were exposed to a “flashback” scene from the original Paranormal Activity, showing a bloodied corpse being hurled at the camera, during the screening of Paranormal Activity 4.
Families shielded the eyes of the children and fled the theater, but it was too late, leaving dozens of children crying.
Natasha Lewis, 32, had taken her eight-year-old son Dylan to see the film.
“Dylan wanted to see the new Madagascar film as he’s seen the others and they’re his favorite,” she said. “He was really looking forward to it.
“We sat down and it was meant to start at 10 AM, but it took until 10:30 AM for the lights to go down and for the trailers to start.
“They started playing the movie and I thought – this doesn’t look right. And then I recognized 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.
“I’ve watched a few horror films in my time but the Paranormal Activity films are the scariest since the Exorcist.
“It was only about two minutes worth of the film but it was enough to scar them for life.
“There were parents and kids in there, including some children who were younger than Dylan.
“The cinema needs to check the film before sending everyone in so they don’t make this mistake again.
“I’m disgusted about it, mistakes like this simply should not happen.
“Dylan has not liked going to the cinema before but I thought we’d try it out. But now he never wants to go back.”
If this happened in America, best believe every single family in the theater would be suing the theater and staff.
Stephen Willard | Elite.
