A movie lover had her cinema experience ruined by having to sit through hours of a film with distorted music.

Wendy Bailey, of Maldon Road, Colchester, paid her first visit to Colchester's Odeon cinema with a group of friends to see the latest Lord of the Rings film.

Mrs Bailey said: "After an hour, the music soundtrack began to go terribly wrong. The music sounded like the tape was being stretched producing appalling sounds and off-key, discordant, unpleasant noises.

"All enjoyment of watching of the film was completely ruined. We could not enjoy the fantasy of the film when failing 21st century technology kept bringing us back to reality with the terrible music."

Geoff Sale, Odeon manager, said: "It was just an unfortunate sequence of events.

"The dialogue was running fine but the music wasn't, which is very unusual.

"Electric sensors monitor the sound but because the dialogue was running fine, none of the alarms went off."

Published Wednesday January 7, 2004

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