User blog:Timebomb192potato/Boxread b-movies discussion: "Hundreds Of Children Terrified When Movie Theatre Plays La Llorona Instead Of Detective Pikachu"


 * p/Da_Cucumber: When I became a projectionist, I was told how I got the job. The last guy wasn't paying attention and forgot to switch out movies. He started Jackass: The Movie instead of one of the Harry Potter films (can't recall which one). Nevertheless, he was fired on the spot and was forced to hand out free passes to irate moms and pissed-off Potter fans on his last day on the job.
 * p/TheLook_5421!: I remember that in 2005 I went on a school field trip to see Because of Winn-Dixie, but the dumbass projectionist started Boogeyman instead. They waited until the scene where the Boogeyman murdered the lead's girlfriend to shut it off (by then, our teacher had stormed off to bark at the manager). Refunds, passes for free movies and mumbles of "Sorry" ensued. I will never forget that image.
 * p/FrostingAndCookies: This happened to me in the mid-00s. Went with my parents and sister to see Robots and the trailers started with The Final Cut. Okay, not appropriate thematically for a kids film, but we shrugged it off. And then the trailer for Cursed plays. Um... what? Then the trailer for Boogeyman plays. Oh. Hell. No. The parents began to stand up and file out, then a theater tech ran in and ordered us to move to the theater next door. They'd gotten the reels confused and (IIRC) Saw was about to start. We all got our money back and still got to see the movie, so that was a bit better.
 * p/TheMovementOfThings: The worst I've ever done is playing some IFC Films release instead of "The Hangover", and I noticed before the trailers finished so managed to stop it and switch out the reels without the handful of patrons in the theater suspecting a thing. Other projectionists have told me worse stories - for example one of my co-workers once managed to play "Deep Impact" instead of "Spice World" for a sold-out early morning matinee crowd, and had to hand out free passes to angry parents.
 * p/IWakeUpInATree_105: One of my colleagues once started A Good Day to Die Hard instead of Pitch Perfect.

All the people who wanted to see Pitch Perfect were screaming and cursing more than John McClane ever did in the entire Die Hard franchise.

We ended up having to hand out free passes and apologize to every single one of them.
 * p/Fullproof_Dog: When I was in college me and my friends went to see a Rocky Horror Picture Show participation screening. The shadowcast folk were all set up and we were all ready to have a good time.

And then the dumbass projectionist (this theater hadn't switched to digital yet at the time) started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The shadowcast folk were befuddled but made the best of it by riffing the 7 minutes of the film we saw before the staff realized the mistake and shut it off.

I mean, the poor projectionist was probably having a smoke outside and thought everything was alright.