Scary Movie
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Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, when Ray is stabbing Bobby, Cindy says "You've watched one too many TV shows." Ray points the knife at her. At this point the knife is in his left hand but when he turns back round to stab Bobby again the knife is back in his right hand. There is not enough time for him to swap hands between shots. (01:10:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where there's a party at Cindy's house, two kids behind her are drinking liquor out of bottles that are completely upside-down, but the level of liquid remains constant. (00:57:00)

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Visible crew/equipment: In the beginning of the movie in the scene where Cindy and Bobby are in Cindy's bedroom,the Dawson's Creek theme song just starts to play and in the bottom left hand side of the window, just before Dawson pops up and says "Wrong set" you will notice someone dressed in black start to creep up for a second, then Dawson pops up. (00:07:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Bobby and Cindy are in her room the first time and they're laying on the bed, in one scene it shows a TV next to her bed. The next shot it is gone. Then when Bobby starts to go out the window the TV appears again. (00:06:50)

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Continuity mistake: When there are shots of the popcorn cooking on the stove, growing larger, in some shots there is a popcorn wrapper to the right of the stove, in others there isn't. Also Drew puts a silver salt pot down to the right of the stove, which has disappeared in later shots. (00:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene when Ray goes to the restroom while at the theater there are men urine racing.There are five urinals. The man with the white hat is to left. The man with a black cap is to the far right.when the third man from the left is declared winner.The man with the white hat shifts right one space and the man with the black hat takes his old spot. (00:55:45)

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Revealing mistake: When the teacher jumps it's clear the ground is a mattress with grass and leaves over it. Soil would not bend the amount it does, even with someone jumping off the roof of a building. (00:48:20)

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Continuity mistake: After Heather is campaigning in the hallway of the school and giving out flyers, Buffy grabs the flyer and lets go of it, and is holding nothing. In the next scene where Buffy, Brenda and Cindy walk over to their boyfriends, Buffy all of a sudden has a folder, some books and a banana in one hand. (00:11:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Greg confronts Ray about the picture he found in the locker room, he shows them all and they start laughing. Buffy is on the left part of the screen, (on Cindy's right side), then Cindy explains that she got a note. Then when she says: "Somebody knows.", Buffy is more to the right (or left of the screen) than before. Then when Cindy says they have to call the police, Buffy's back to where she was at first. (00:26:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Cindy has kicked the killer out of the window she runs over to her dad. His hands are supposed to be tied, but the ties are actually already loose. (01:12:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Cindy is running up the stairs and throwing the bicycle and piano at the killer the staircase is straight but when she goes to open the door and sees Doofy, if you look behind her the stairs are spiral. (00:34:30)

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Revealing mistake: When the killer is getting kicked into the glass cabinet you can see a string pulling the glass so it will break. (01:14:25)

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Deliberate mistake: When Cindy is talking to the killer on the phone, and he says, "I could be anywhere. I'm like the wind, baby," she walks into the living-room. Notice the wall behind the couch, it is completely different a moment later. When the killer hides behind the curtains, the wall behind the couch has large bay windows with seating underneath. Then when the killer is at her house the second time, all the windows are gone during the Matrix send-up, so Cindy can run along that wall.

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Visible crew/equipment: During the Matrix send-up, after Cindy throws the platter at the killer, an actor's T-mark is visible on the floor, when he leans back and flounders about.

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Continuity mistake: When Ray is with Brenda in bed, and she get out, we can see her pillow in one form, and in the next scene is in another form. (00:49:20)

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Continuity mistake: Just after Brenda drops the first beer bottle, her hands are out in the "don't shoot" position. The camera cuts and she is holding the bottle in both hands. (00:57:50)

Ssiscool

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Cindy was fighting the killer Matrix style, she threw a brass ornament at the killer like a Frisbee and the killer dodged it, and the brass ornament should have gone out of the window by smashing through it. But the window was broken by the killer flying out of the window after Cindy kicked him/her. The brass ornament has mysteriously disappeared into thin air. (01:11:40)

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Continuity mistake: After they dump the body in the water, Greg tries to get Cindy to agree to the pact. When she doesn't he starts strangling her. When he lets go, Cindy starts to reach her hands to her neck but in the very next shot her hands are at her sides. (00:19:35)

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Continuity mistake: Near the beginning Buffy tears off her dress and throws it on the ground. When they walk away there's no sign of it. (00:09:20)

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Shorty: I'm on TV! Oh shit! First Cops, now this! I'm gonna be a star, son!

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Trivia: In the beginning of the movie, the girl is hit by a car which turns out to be driven by her father who seems quite busy. In the deleted scenes of the movie, the car that hits Cindy in the very end turns out to be driven by the same man, in the same way.

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Question: Who is the guy who looks through Cindy's window at the beginning of the movie and says 'wrong set'?

Answer: That whole scene is a spoof of the show "Dawson's Creek". The guy is James Van Der Beek, who played Dawson Leery, the title character.

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Answer: It's also worth mentioning that the song that is playing during this part - "I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole - was the theme song to Dawson's Creek.

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