A movie theater left parents in horror after accidentally showing a trailer of the film "Nymphomaniac" to a room full of kids ready to watch the Disney movie "Frozen."
According to FOX 13 News, the Regal Cinemas Park Place Stadium 16 in Pinellas Park, Fla. was experiencing technical difficulties, which delayed starting the film. The cinema played another cartoon while handling the situation to keep the families entertained until the problem was fixed.
"They put in the filler, it looked like 'Steamboat Willie,' the old Mickey Mouse cartoon, and then all of a sudden it goes into this other scene," Lynn Greene, a movie-goer who brought her grandchildren, told FOX 13.
"It seemed like forever when you're trying to, you know, cover a little guy's eyes," she added. "I didn't have enough hands to cover his ears too and he got the sound down real good."
The scene Greene is referring to is from the sexually explicit film trailer for "Nymphomaniac", which includes a full frontal felatio scene and images of women's bare breasts. Parents reportedly rushed their kids out of the theater, and the cinema offered free tickets in light of their error. However, Greene believed the damage was already done.
"You're talking, what, a PG-rated movie to all of a sudden have an R-rated scene up there for little children?" she said. "My concern is that there should be safeguards in place so that this doesn't happen again."
However, Matt Cowal, SVP of marketing and publicity for Magnolia Pictures, told The Wrap it is "unlikely" the scene that was shown was from the racy film. Cowal confirmed the trailer has not been sent to any theaters and "only exists online."
"I would say that whatever those kids in Florida saw, it's extremely unlikely it was anything from 'Nymphomaniac,'" Cowal said. "If the ['Frozen'] story is true, it would've had to been uploaded from the internet and repurposed by a particularly twisted projectionist."
WARNING: You can watch the NSFW trailer for "Nymphomaniac" here. The video contains sexually explict material.
