A MIX-UP in the projection room at Southampton’s Odeon cinema left families who had queued for the latest Disney movie watching an 18-rated horror film instead.

Parents taking young children to see animated movie Bolt were stunned when My Bloody Valentine 3D started on screen at the Leisure World multiplex yesterday.

One parent said that some children had become upset after seeing up to ten minutes of the horror movie about a serial killer instead of the family film about a dog who thinks that he is a superhero.

“Some of the children were as young as four,” he said.

The father, who did not want to be named, said that Odeon staff apologised to customers and refunded their tickets before giving them complimentary passes to a film of their choice.

An Odeon spokesman said: “Odeon apologises for the human error which caused the wrong film to be shown for a short time. We have taken immediate steps to ensure that this mistake does not happen again.”