A British pensioner dropped dead in a cinema while watching a horror movie.

Bernard Channing, a 77-year-old tourist from Gedling, Notts, had been to see Annabelle Comes Home last night while on holiday in Pattaya, Thailand.

But when the film finished and the lights were turned on, a shocked guest sitting next to the pensioner noticed he was dead.

The woman is said to have been 'shaken' at discovering the dead body and shouted for staff who rushed into the room and called the emergency services at 8pm local time.

Mr Channing was pronounced dead inside the venue and his covered body was taken away by a side door and loaded into an ambulance. 

Resident Monthira Phengrat who arrived at the cinema after the death said that guests were 'very upset'.

She said: 'There were some people at the entrance talking with staff. They were in the cinema where the man died and they were very upset.

DAILYMAIL