I'm alone in the cinema and a bit freaked out

[Eastie77]

My first visit in almost a year. I'm sitting here alone in a semi dark screening room waiting for the film to start and it's all a bit weird. I've had a look on the booking app and it seem they have indeed sold one ticket for this screening but now worried someone strange will randomly turn up at the last minute!

Our coucil refuse to provide local pools with sharks

I used to go on Orange Wednesdays on my day off and often I was the only person there!

Many years ago I watched an x-men movie on my own on the ferry from Hull to Rotterdam. I thought there were two of us watching it but as the film started the other person stood up and I realised he was crew. He properly left LOCKING THE DOOR from the outside.
I was somewhat unsettled during the showing.

I used to go to the cinema a lot. I went to see "Where the Truth lies" google it one Sunday afternoon. I thought I was alone until 5 minutes before the start a man emerged from the back corner and asked if I wanted to come sit with him. Unsurprisingly, I did not. Thankfully someone else turned up otherwise I would have left. Creep.

OP, you'll find when you read up on it that a lot of those in the film were nomadic people.

I went to an otherwise empty cinema a day or two before youngest DC was born and I had nothing else to do while waiting - saw first Sex & The City film

I regularly go to the cinema in the day and it’s often deserted, probably more so now.

Me and my friend were the only ones in the cinema when we saw The Grudge. I wanted the toilet at one point but my friend gripped my arm and said.. 'you're not bloody leaving me here alone'!!

@BrozTito

Our coucil refuse to provide local pools with sharks

Bloody budget cuts!

Re. the film, I stayed to watch the credits and noticed every single character's name was their actual real name so wondering if a lot of the cast were not (professional) actors. Now off to read the book the film is based on!

They were all van people/nomads the guy who ran the meet up. Organises workshops and meets in real life. I. Did a bit if googling once I finished watching it.

I went to see Once Upon a Time in America and I was the only one in a large screening.
I was on edge all through the film as the cinema staff would come in randomly and look around. I felt like a fugitive! A nervous one at that. You feel quite vulnerable tbh.

This happened to me once but wasn’t alone was with my kids then just before the film started a family came in and sat in the row in front of us in a completely empty cinema (and there was no allocated seating

Dh and I went to see Blade (vampires, Wesley Snipes) in a 600 seat screen in Florida, there was one other couple in there. Really eerie.

@NavigatingAdolescence

My idea of heaven!

God me too. No sharing your treats😜

I go regularly to the cinema on my own and I love it when there’s no one else there. I feel like it’s a private screening

Micheal Myers will join you soon to break the loneliness 🤣🔪

DD and I went to see the Horrible Histories movie Rotten Romans, I'd prebooked the seats assuming it would be busy as it was the first screening and first day of the summer holidays. We were the only ones there so snuck into the more expensive seats once the film started.

Oh really HP
I thought kids films would be rammed, I was tempted to go to the Dogtanian film but didn't for that reason.
Yes, yes, feel free to judge but I'm an 80's kid

@BillStickersIsInnocent

I had to sit in my allocated ticket seat and they brought out ice creams just for me in the intermission.

Aw

@santabetterwashhishands Halloween or Wayne's World/Austin Powers Myers? Both scary in their own way.

I used to be an usherette at a one screen cinema in the 1990s and if nobody showed for a screening we were allowed to go home for 2 hours, so you can imagine the glares we gave to a single customer or a couple turning up five mins before the film started. On the other hand if it was a new film and nobody showed we would hold a screening just for us, with popcorn and icecream.

I was going to ask if they still show the film if no one comes. Thinking about it I have no idea how films are projected now. Is it done digitally somehow as they don't use actual film usually do they? I have not been for years and remember the cinema floor was filthy which I suppose is no longer the case either?

You've reminded me of the Anthony Hopkins story he told about the screening of Silence of the Lambs. Can't remember if he went to a public screening a day or two after the fancy premiere, or instead of; he wanted to experience it in a normal cinema.

Unfortunately, not thinking, he afterwards leaned forward and asked the lady in front of him what she had thought of the movie. She nearly died of fright. Silly sod.

DH and I went to a late night screening of IT and were the only 2 people in an 8 screen complex.

I'm terrified of the dark and clowns but was determined to face my fear - that was a bt much though aNd at one point I insisted on following him into the men's toilets so I wasn't alone

@CeaselessWatcher

I used to be an usherette at a one screen cinema in the 1990s and if nobody showed for a screening we were allowed to go home for 2 hours, so you can imagine the glares we gave to a single customer or a couple turning up five mins before the film started. On the other hand if it was a new film and nobody showed we would hold a screening just for us, with popcorn and icecream.

I’ve always wondered about this. If no one turns up do they run the film anyway?