Easter Horror at the Movies

The story starts in Holtsville, New York, at the Island 16 theatre. According to National Amusements, the owner of the theater on Long Island, The Hills Have Eyes 2 was scheduled to be shown at 10:25pm in the same theater as The Last Mimzy, which was scheduled for 8pm. Someone jumped the gun and put The Hills Have Eyes 2 in early, causing havoc. If you haven't seen The Hills Have Eyes 2 (and consider yourself lucky), the film opens with a graphic birth of a mutant by a battered woman who is then killed. It's hideous and immediately disturbing - the kind of thing that many adults are unlikely to forget, much less their toddler children.

In a case of really bad timing, Frank Doll, a resident of Mastic, was in the audience with his 3 year-old son and pregnant wife. Doll told Newsday, "My wife is eight months pregnant and he's been asking, 'Is that what mommy's going to have?'" Doll said. 'We've been trying to explain that all day.'"

The Associated Press spoke to Anthony Rasco, another man who was in the audience for The Last Mimzy and he said, "There were kids that were crying, there were people trying to cover the kids' eyes, they were caught off guard."