In the spirit of sharing, here's a personal experience I had at the Cathay Cineplex in e@Curve.

Can't quite remember as this happened about 7 years ago. I went to Google when Evan Almighty was shown and it was in 2007.

At that time, 2 of my friends and I wanted to watch 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry', which also happens to be showing on that same year. We went and got our tickets from the cashier and realized that the movie had started, we were about 5 minutes late and decided to rush to the cinema hall as quick as possible.

We finally got in the cinema hall. At first glance, I saw a few 'heads' seated and we thought 'Okay, we made it. Let's find our seats'. What we didn't knew then was that we had entered the wrong cinema hall. We found our seats and discovered our row was empty but we could not care less. Though, the atmosphere felt a little quiet but on the hindsight, I swear that there were people seated in the hall, just on random seats.

After seated, we continued watching the ads displayed and that was when the eerie feeling started. Complete silence washed over the cinema hall, aside from the ads displayed on the screen. As much as I would believe that there could be such obedience by the moviegoers, I suspected that this is highly peculiar. Then, I began to look around the hall and realized that there were no one here aside from the 3 of us. That's when things started to get freaky.

As the ads finally finished rolling, we started to realize that the hall we were in was showing Evan Almighty. The three of us were still pinned down by silence and awkwardness, but I gathered some courage and whispered to them, 'I think we're in the wrong hall, let's get out of here'. And with that little message, we all got up from our seats and made our way to the entrance of the hall (the entrance was the exit). As both my friends were in front of me, and I'm the last one to exit the hall, I swore that I saw someone standing just beside it. I was thinking perhaps it was the usher, but he just stood there in silence. Then one of my friends said, "The correct hall is down that way, let's go" as I looked to him. Then, I did a double-take and look at that same spot again, and there was nobody there. It could be my paranoia playing tricks on me but boy, when we left that hall, we felt relieved.

Then, we entered the correct hall and the show had already played (we missed about 15 to 20 minutes of the show). This time, we carefully looked around and see if there were actual people in the hall. When some funny parts came out, we heard a wave of laughter coming from all around and knew that for sure, these are people.

And from that day onwards, I never visited Cathay Cineplex. Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, the show we go for was at 7 p.m. during the Hungry Ghost month (the latter can't be confirmed, sudah manyak lama).

This post has been edited by Kevmeister: Dec 17 2014, 03:19 PM

We didn't mean to intrude on their 'private viewing session'. One of my friend (of the two that experienced this with me) said that cinemas have a tradition of sometimes rolling movies in a completely blank hall to give these beings their own show time as a sign of respect, and people/mortals weren't meant to buy those tickets.

Oh, and I suddenly recalled that we did enter the correct hall, the cashier must've issued us the wrong tickets and we dashed back to the counter to get the correct one.

This post has been edited by Kevmeister: Dec 18 2014, 01:42 PM

I don't know, but from what my friend told me and that he heard from his mom, there will be special airing times for those 'beings' to watch.