Parents have told how their children were left 'scarred for life' after cinema staff put on a horror film instead of a cartoon comedy. There was panic in a Saturday-morning screening when 15-rated supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity 4 started playing instead of PG family movie Madagascar 3. Youngsters reacted in horror as a 'flashback' scene from the original Paranormal Activity showed a bloodied corpse being hurled at the camera. Scroll down for video Horror: An audience settling down for a family film were shocked to be shown 15-rated Paranormal Activity 4 Around 25 families at the Cineworld cinema in Nottingham scrambled for the exits with their crying children - some as young as five - when the film started.
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Children as young as five at Saturday screening at Cineworld in Nottingham
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Instead of comedy cartoon, projectionists put on terrifying horror movie
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Parents said children had been 'terrified' and 'scarred for life'
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Staff have apologised and offered full refund and complimentary tickets
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