Whoops: Ohio Theater Starts Wrong Film for Kids

Plays horror flick 'Insidious' instead of 'Inside Out'
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jun 24, 2015 4:47 PM CDT
Whoops: Ohio Theater Starts Wrong Film for Kids
This is actually from "Insidious: Chapter 2," but you get the idea.   (AP Photo/FilmDistrict, Matt Kennedy)

Parents and children settled into their seats for a new animated Disney film got a quick jolt when a horror movie came on the southwest Ohio screen instead. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News that a projectionist started playing Insidious: Chapter 3 instead of Inside Out. One mother says she and other adults quickly scooped up their kids and left. A manager says the parents got an apology and an upgrade pass to see the Pixar movie in 3-D. The cinema's site calls Insidious "a chilling prequel" with violence and frightening images. It's rated PG-13, while Inside Out is PG. (Inside Out, meanwhile, is getting rave reviews.)

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