Horror's Not Dead

Horror's Not Dead

"I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake. "
-- The Fly

“Some 50 people - including parents with young children - began screaming and ran out.”

“Some 50 people - including parents with young children - began screaming and ran out.”

April 8th 2007 @ 8:55 am

I came across this story via Cinematical during my regular scour for weekly horror news and laughed so hard that I had to give it its own post:

A theater in Long Island accidently swapped a print of The Last Mimzy (rated PG) with The Hills Have Eyes 2 (rated R).  Now, I didn’t bother making it to the theater to catch the sequel, because I assumed (correctly, if everyone else is right) it was going to be balls, but apparently it opens pre-credits with a naked woman giving birth to a dead and/or mutant baby.

So this image is what ’some 50 people’ had blasted onto their eyeballs, instead of the kid-friendly sci-fi flick.  I certainly sympathize with any angry parents, but the image of a theater full of crying children, shocked and panic stricken parents running around while a chained, nude woman is stretched across a 40 foot screen, squeezing out a mutant child is hilarious.


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  1. April 8th, 2007 | 11:50 am | #1

    That’s the bestworst thing I’ve ever heard.

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