Pictures: Shropshire film fans go Back to the Future

The Cineworld cinemas in Southwater Square in Telford and Old Potts Way in Shrewsbury screened all three films back-to-back yesterday while the Odeon at Forge Gate in Telford showed the first two films in the trilogy.

Hundreds of people turned out at the three venues to mark the occasion, which has been keenly waited for by fans of the films for several years.

Andrew Wilmot, duty manager at the Telford Odeon, said the audience had enjoyed reliving the films on the big screen.

"We had almost 80 people and it's gone really well," he said.

"Everyone was really geared up for it. It's one of those cult classics that everyone always wants to follow.

"With the whole thing with the 'future day' date, it's really spurred people on to be able to watch the films on the big screen."

Mr Wilmot said some people had dressed in 'future day' styles, wearing trench coats reminiscent of that worn by Doc Emmett Brown, one of the heroes of the trilogy.

But he said it was the technology that had got most people talking.

He said: "People have been comparing what they've seen in the film with what they've got now. In some ways it's the same, but in others it's quite different."

The 1980s sci-fi classic sees small-town California teen Marty McFly – played by Michael J Fox – thrown back into the 1950s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) goes awry.

They travel through time in a modified DeLorean car.