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Here's a story from one of my old jobs. I actually wasn't there when it happened, but I was certainly told about it in detail. Anyways...
I used to work at a movie theatre. During the summer, in the mornings around 10:00AM or so, we'd have little kids movies, and parents would bring in their kids, babies, whatever. These are really short, crappy, low-budget CG movies for kids like 2-7, which is why we charged way less per ticket. I think the real goal of it was to bring in a bit more revenue via sales in concessions. Anyways, the one projectionist working that day kinda forgot to change the movie reel from what was playing the night before and what was supposed to be playing that morning. So instead of a cute little G-rated movie playing, a different one played. It was none other than The Hills Have Eyes. Of course, none of the staff noticed this until a few minutes in, a man came to the front desk, where most of the staff were casually talking.
Man: "Uhh... The Hills Have Eyes is playing instead of <kid's movie>"
Them (staring wide-eyed, open-mouthed, and speechless): ...
We communicated with the projectionists on the second floor via walkie-talkie. Everyone rushed to grab it. Everyone screamed "JAMES!!! JAMES!!! IT'S THE WRONG MOVIE!!!"
Apparently if you were in that auditorium, you could hear James, the projectionist scream "F***!" He apparently stopped the movie right before a man got hit in the face with a pick or something in the movie.
Thankfully, management at that theatre was made up of very nonchalant people, so no jobs were lost. A good laugh, though.
I used to work at a movie theatre. During the summer, in the mornings around 10:00AM or so, we'd have little kids movies, and parents would bring in their kids, babies, whatever. These are really short, crappy, low-budget CG movies for kids like 2-7, which is why we charged way less per ticket. I think the real goal of it was to bring in a bit more revenue via sales in concessions. Anyways, the one projectionist working that day kinda forgot to change the movie reel from what was playing the night before and what was supposed to be playing that morning. So instead of a cute little G-rated movie playing, a different one played. It was none other than The Hills Have Eyes. Of course, none of the staff noticed this until a few minutes in, a man came to the front desk, where most of the staff were casually talking.
Man: "Uhh... The Hills Have Eyes is playing instead of <kid's movie>"
Them (staring wide-eyed, open-mouthed, and speechless): ...
We communicated with the projectionists on the second floor via walkie-talkie. Everyone rushed to grab it. Everyone screamed "JAMES!!! JAMES!!! IT'S THE WRONG MOVIE!!!"
Apparently if you were in that auditorium, you could hear James, the projectionist scream "F***!" He apparently stopped the movie right before a man got hit in the face with a pick or something in the movie.
Thankfully, management at that theatre was made up of very nonchalant people, so no jobs were lost. A good laugh, though.
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