Even with the involvement of Ryan Reynolds, Pokémon Detective Pikachu has been marketed as a family-friendly film. Obviously, you would expect a few sparks, but last week at a screening for the film in Montreal, some kids got more of a shock than they expected.
The cinema accidentally ran the R-rated Mexican-themed horror flick, The Curse of La Llorona. Parents of the children quickly caught onto this mistake when the trailers for Joker and Child's Play started. It only got worse when the main screening began. Fortunately, the children in the audience had been shuffled out by this stage.
Ryan George from ScreenRant, who was in attendance, caught all of the action and uploaded it to Twitter:
The staff at the cinema eventually realised their mistake and relocated the audience to another theatre to watch Detective Pikachu. We're just hoping the kids who saw the above horror movie aren't too afraid of ghost-type Pokémon after this ordeal.
Have you ever had a cinema mishap like this? Have you seen Detective Pikachu yet? Tell us down in the comments.
[source usgamer.net]
Comments 39
Big deal, I watched the Exorcist when I was 5.
Maybe the ghost from the Pokémon Tower in Red are trying to communicate to us with this trailer.
Ghost Marowak sighting in 3...2...1....
Yep, can’t remember the kids movie that he was meant to project but my projectionist buddy ended up screening Blade 2 instead. Lots of kids stuck around with their mums and dads as the blood bank scene played.
Wow... What a scoop!
I was at this screening. I was surprised with what they did with the Pokémon license. No Pikachu at all and the horror tropes on display showed a risky new direction for the IP. I noticed people walking out earlier and in total it’s only about 10 minutes long. I left the theatre with many unanswered questions, still it’s an interesting direction for Hollywood to make short films without the title protagonist.
I give it 4.5 stars out of 5.
I remember going to see Toy Story 2 when I was 19 and them putting on a film that started with a nude scene by mistake and there wasn’t a projectionist in the booth at the back. Being the oldest person in the cinema I felt responsible to take control so I went out to find someone to change it over and when I came back I was greeted by the stares of some very angry 13 year olds who would prefer not to see Toy Story 2 any more.
I remember hearing that a cinema played the trailer for Hereditary before a screening of Peter Rabbit. I wasn't in attendance but I did chuckle when I read it.
@TheAwesomeBowser I heard that as well
@MrGawain 13 year olds these days...
And it wasn't even a good horror movie. So sad.
I would have laughed for like, 3 days
Blah! Would have done them good!
You mean they showed the Sonic Movie then?
This was in the news days ago. Keep up
@BensonUii It was alright for a kid's movie. Justice and Ryan's chemistry carried it, and it was a decent amount of fun to see. The plot was mediocre as you called it, but remember, this is a PG film where they stopped Ryan Reynolds from deadpooling out the entire film. So the fact it was still pretty funny is actually something to applaud, IMO, instead of decry the film for (obviously) limiting it's enjoyment to older people.
Man what the **** this same **** happened to me I don't remember either of the movies but the one that got played by accident opened off with the main characters running over a rabbit that the film started on in their car as they went cross country. I didn't get national headlines, just a refund >
(Does anyone even read these? No bad language please - Matthew010)
Heh. So close...
5 seconds away from corrupting the next generation.
@nintendolie
I saw it when I was 8 and it scared the $h** out of me, couldn't sleep, afraid of every window or sound.
And that was on oldskool small tv's
Poor children I hope they are okay.
@nintendolie Yah, I saw Jaws when I was around 7 was completely scarred for life. I literally believe a shark can get me in my own back yard. And there's no pool. Oh, I told the therapist.
@The-Chosen-one
That happened with me and the original Halloween. Lights on for weeks.
Bet it was super easy, barely an inconvenience to switch theatres. 😉
Lol. I feel kind of sorry for the poor children....
Happened to me when I took my sister to see Zootopia. All the previews were super inappropriate, so I had to take her out of the theater. I was FURIOUS. We got an upgrade to an Imax screening and free passes to a future movie, but we used the pass at a different theater... never took her back there. Couldn't trust them after that.
That video sums up the reaction well. Oh well, mistakes happen.
I watched Day of the Dead when I was 10 and home alone. I turned off all the lights and sat near the tv. Once the hand busted through the calendar, all lights went on.
Why is this so frequent? Most of the theaters I go to have never caused a problem like this.
That happened too when I went to watch the movie. They didn't update the people responsible for projecting the movie, and they played horror movie trailers for us, then a German horror movie about an asylum started. We complained, a mother was furious, and her 7-8 year old daughter had clearly been spooked by the horror movie trailers. They sent us to a different theater within the multiplex, with a bigger screen.
Wait...is it legal to ask for a refund now?
@nintendolie The only time I tried to watch that movie I felt asleep in front, that never ever happened to me before xD
i bet someone did this on purpose
I and this is why we don't do this..
@BensonUii I'm on the fence. I think that the film might be OK but I do think that Sonic has scary man teeth
@MrGawain Hahah, which movie was it with the nude scene? Or do you not know?
@IceEarthGuard
Not sure. It was 20 years ago and I only saw the first two minutes of it. I don’t think it was a particularly memorable film.
@Shadowmoon522 Tyler Durden
I saw Detective Pikachu earlier and a parent was horrified at the idea that Cubone wears his deceased mother's skull. Her 8-year-old son shrugged it off, "yeah, Mom, that's been a thing for a long time."
Whatever they showed couldn't have been scarier than the cgi pokémon in this movie.
Cya
Raziel-chan
Happened here too with some Disney movie where they accidentally put on Saw 2 instead. Funny how often that seems to happen.
@Rudy_Manchego Of course not...they played "The Angry Birds Movie 2."
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