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Theater Accidentally Shows Horror Trailers and Beginning of ‘La Llorona’ Instead of ‘Detective Pikachu’

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We’re not sure why or how it keeps happening, but several theaters in recent years have accidentally shown horror trailers and/or the beginnings of horror movies to audiences full of children, with the trailers for BrightBurn and Ma most recently shown to unsuspecting families ahead of Peppa Pig in the UK. And it happened again over the weekend, this time in Canada.

ScreenRant’s Ryan George was in attendance at a theater in Canada the other day for a showing of Detective Pikachu, but he knew something was wrong when the trailers playing before the film weren’t exactly kid-friendly. The trailers for Annabelle Comes Home, Joker and Child’s Play escorted an unexpected showing of The Curse of La LLorona onto the screen!

Andddd kids are crying,” George tweeted as part of a live-tweet thread we’ve embedded below. “OH MY GOD THEY’RE PLAYING LA LLORANA INSTEAD OF DETECTIVE PIKACHU.”

As those who have seen The Curse of La Llorona surely recall, the film’s opening sequence shows a mother drowning her two young children. Yikes…

As soon as the Annabelle Comes Home trailer ended, you could hear a few kids crying,” George told Gizmodo. “When La Llorona started, it was pretty quiet in the theatre—everyone still thought it might still be Detective Pikachu. When the image of the mother drowning her kid showed up on screen, several people left the room to go warn the theatre staff.

Only about five minutes of La Llorona played before the theater corrected the error.

George even captured some footage from his bizarre night out, which you’ll find below.

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‘The Exorcism’ Trailer – Russell Crowe Gets Possessed in Meta Horror Movie from Producer Kevin Williamson

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Russell Crowe (The Pope’s Exorcist) is starring in a brand new meta possession horror movie titled The Exorcism, and Vertical has unleashed the official trailer this afternoon.

Vertical has picked up the North American rights to The Exorcism, which they’ll be bringing to theaters on June 7. Shudder is also on board to bring the film home later this year.

Joshua John Miller, who wrote 2015’s The Final Girls and also starred in films including Near Dark and And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, directed The Exorcism.

Joshua John Miller also wrote the script with M.A. Fortin (The Final Girls). This one is personal for Miller, as his late father was the star of the best possession movie ever made.

Miller said in a statement this week, “The origins of the film stem from my childhood spent watching my father, Jason Miller, playing the doomed Father Karras flinging himself out a window at the climax of The Exorcist. If that wasn’t haunting enough on its own, my dad never shied away from telling me stories of just how “cursed” the movie was: the mysterious fires that plagued the production, the strange deaths, the lifelong injuries— the list went on and on. The lore of any “cursed film” has captivated me ever since.”

“With The Exorcism, we wanted to update the possession movie formula (“Heroic man rescues woman from forces she’s too weak and simple to battle herself!”) for a world where no one group owns goodness and decency over another,” he adds. “We were gifted with an extraordinary cast and creative team to tell a story about how we’re all vulnerable to darkness, to perpetuating it, if we fail to face our demons. The devil may retaliate, but what other choice do we have?”

The film had previously been announced under the title The Georgetown Project.

The Exorcism follows Anthony Miller (Crowe), a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play.”

Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water), Chloe Bailey (Praise This), Adam Goldberg (The Equalizer) and David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) also star.

Of particular note, Kevin Williamson (Scream, Sick) produced The Exorcism.

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