 The mother scolding the theater manager regarding the movies  inappropriate tone for children was based in fact. During a  screening of _Gremlins (1984)_ (qv), Joe Dante (I) (qv) really was  excoriated by a mother who walked out of the theater with her  daughter during the infamous kitchen massacre sequence. The daughter  begged to be let back in the theater, got free from the mother, and  hid in the theater to watch the rest of the film.