Movie Mistake: Families Get Horror Film

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Movie Mistake: Families Get Horror Film

HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. ” An audience expecting to watch a family film was stunned to get an glimpse of a horror movie, which left some parents shaken and the theater chain apologizing for the movie mix-up.

The moviegoers were expecting to see "The Last Mimzy," the PG-rated tale of a brother and sister who discover a mysterious box of toys and become endowed with superhuman powers to help preserve humanity's future.

Instead, the crowd saw the opening scene of "The Hills Have Eyes 2," the R-rated sequel to a recent remake of a 1977 horror classic by the genre's renowned director, Wes Craven. The film centers on National Guard troops who stumble on a clan of mutant cannibals and starts with a chained woman giving birth to a mutant.

"There were kids that were crying, there were people trying to cover the kids' eyes, they were caught off guard," said Anthony Rasco, who was in the audience when the scene was unexpectedly shown Thursday in one of the theaters at the Island 16 multiplex.

Another patron said the episode had left his 3-year-old son with lingering, and unsettling, questions.

"My wife is eight months pregnant, and he's been asking, 'Is that what mommy's going to have?'" said Frank Doll, 31, of Mastic.

Theater staffers soon stopped the movie, gave the patrons free ticket vouchers, and started "The Last Mimzy" about a half-hour late, according to parents.

National Amusements Inc., which operates the Island 16 and about 1,500 other movie screens in the United States and elsewhere, expressed "deepest apologies" in a statement Friday.

"We are working with our theater's managers to correct this situation and ensure that it does not happen again," said the statement from the company, based in Dedham, Massachusetts

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I've never seen the hills have eyes but from what the story says, it would probably be damaging to a little kid.

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I just saw this news report. That has to be effed up, going to a kid flick and get nailed with mutants squirting outta pregnant chicks. Hopefully the kids will have a short memory about this and be OK.

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If....

The sequal is ANYTHING like the first one, disturbing is a mild way of putting it...That film had some of the most unsettling imagery in a film I've ever seen, modern day horror shit that can only be likened to what it must have been like to see the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the drive in...

Lost Ghost · #4

At first I thought it was funny...now I'm thinking this is some f'd up ish man...

I remember watching the Exorcist when I was little and hating it and being all scared lol.....