Scream 3 corrections

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Scream 3 (2000) - 32 corrections

Directed by Wes Craven, starring Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emily Mortimer, Jenny McCarthy, Lance Henriksen, Liev Schreiber, Neve Campbell, Patrick Dempsey

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When the killer calls Syd at the police station and tells her that he has Gail and Dewey, she asks, "How do I know those are their real voices?" (Well, the killer finishes the sentence.) But Gail had just found out that the killer had a voice changer with all their voices. So if Gail had not spoken to Sydney before the killer called at the police station, how does Sydney know to ask about whether those are Gail and Deweys real voices? [Don't forget the killer called Sidney disguising his voice as her mother in order to fool her. Therefore it is safe to assume she knows the killer can manipulate her with other voices.] Corrected by SAZOO1975

In the scene where Dewey and the killer are fighting near the basement door, which is not a swinging door, they both fly through the door (hitting it forward), but when it shows them falling down the stairway, the door is flying backwards. [If you slam against a regular door hard enough it will bounce against the wall and close, just as this door did.]

When the vest is hanging up the letters (LAPD) are across the upper part. When Sidney shows the vest to her half brother, the letters are at the bottom of the vest. [I have viewed this and the letters are in the same place they were when the vest was hanging up at the police station.]

In the very beginning of the movie at nighttime, as the helicopter is flying over the "HOLLYWOOD" sign, it shines a searchlight on it, lighting up the letters. The letters are cloaked in darkness. The "HOLLYWOOD" sign is lighted with surface-mounted spotlights at night. The letters should never have been dark. [There could be a number of explainations why the lights are off, a fault of the power to them or someone forgot to flick the on switch.]

After the actor is blown up by the fire in Jennifer's house, and after Dewey shoots the killer a couple times, Dewey finds another picture of Mrs. Prescott. The lines written in bold black on the back clearly show that there are many words. When Dewey looks at it, there is only "I Killed Her." To see it, make sure to look just when Dewey picks it up. [This is not a mistake, the same amount of writing is there when Dewey picks it up as to when the cmarea shows it close -up.]

Near the end, Sidney stabs Roman with a knife she picked up off the bar. Then she jumps over the bar and lands on the ground. She picks up Roman's knife, but when he stabs Roman in the chest, it's the bar knife again. [Sidney stabs Roman once with the bar tool(which she keeps in her hand) she picks up Roman's knife only to throw it out of reach, then she stabs him again with her bar tool.]

In the beginning of the final scene where Sydney tries to escape from the disguised murderer she runs into the library. In this room Sydney is looking for the hidden entrance behind the bookshelves. As she recognises a bright light underneath one of these shelves she knows which door to open. As she finally enters that room the bright light suddenly disappeared. The room is as dark as a coal chamber. [The room not only has a bright projection screen running, but many candles, it is not as black as a coal chamber.]

At Roman's birthday party, Roman and Jennifer go off ALONE to find a missing room and end up in the basement. Later, Gale is looking for Roman and goes straight to the basement. She calls his name and gets no answer, but is adamant that he is in the basement and continues down to find him. Why would she think he was down there if she had no idea where he went? [If you watch the direction in which Jennifer and Roman dissapear, there are no other places or doors they could possibly have gone, that's how Gale knows they both have to be down there in the basement.]

Maybe I'm just being silly, but when Cotton is going through his house looking for Christine, he goes into the bathroom and slides the shower door open. One question, and one question only: it's a glass door, so why does he open it in the first place? [The shower door is fogged up from steam, as most glass doors are when the shower has been on. Hot water does cause this, it's also why we cannot see Christine properly through the glass earlier.]

When Sidney is walking through the set of her house a poster of the rock band Creed is on the wall. It's half of the band, and half their newest album, but that album didn't come out until 1999, and the murder had taken place a year or two earlier. The poster also has their website address on it, which wasn't launched until a while after their debut album was very successful, in late 96 or early 97. [Creed were also the executive soundtrack producers and have two songs on the CD. Coincidence? A bit of self-promotion? Surely not....] [Self-promotion.yes. However, this is a movie set within the movie which is still technically designed in the present. This scene is not actually set in that time space you referred, so the album was well released.]

Gale and Dewy can't find the switch to the bookcase-secret door and start pulling down books, despite the fact that Sydney had just pulled away most of the books exposing the handle. [There was no handle. The device to open the book case was in fact a book, which once pulled slightly off the shelf causes the door to open. If anything Gale and Dewey aren't going to push that one particular book back into place, then pull it out again, are they??]

In the opening scene, when the killer enters Cotton's girlfriend's bathroom, he's no more than 3 feet away from the shower door and is talking quite loudly to Cotton on the phone, yet Christine is oblivious to him. [It is much harder to hear someone when you are showering and humming. And from, the camera view, the killer is stood in the bedroom doorway (he pushes it open slightly to show the shower), not right outside the shower door.]

In the bathroom scene with Sidney, if they were so worried about her safety they should have sent bodyguards in with her. [Character decision, not a movie mistake. They should, but they didn't.] Corrected by Twotall

On the back cover of Scream 3 in the Scream trilogy on DVD, the town of the original killings is referred to as Greensboro twice. The correct name of the town is Woodsboro, of course. [DVD cover text and artwork are not parts of the movie, and are not valid movie mistakes.] Corrected by Twotall

When Gale and Dewey are pulling books off the shelf a book falls right in Gale's face. You can see the very surprised look on her face - it wasn't meant to happen. [Even if it was not meant to happen according to the script, it is a natural occurence that would give most people a surprise. Nothing wrong with that happening in a movie.] Corrected by Twotall

When Roman is exploring the house with Parker Posey right before they leave, he tells Dewey and Gale "I'll be right back," breaking a rule that Randy mentioned in the first movie. Notice the nervous look on their faces. [The horror movie expert says that all the rules don't apply anymore in a trilogy, which this is, so Roman can't break any rules since they no longer apply.]

When Cotton's girlfriend is in the shower, and she gets out her hair is completely dry and the rest of her is soaked. [It's easy to have a shower and not get your hair wet; hold your head back, or direct the showerhead to shoulder height.]

Why is the killer so surprised when Syd reveals she was wearing a bullet-proof vest when he'd been wearing one also? [He's suprised at this because he wasn't expecting her to have thought of wearing one.]

When Jennifer gets killed, it looks like as Roman stabs her, the two kinda press against the glass covering the closet. As Dewey shoots the glass, Jennifer falls through the glass, yet the killer is nowhere to be seen. It looks like to the right, there is a wall there, preventing him from running in that direction, yet if he ran the other way, he would have ran right in full view of Dewey and Gale. Instead, he's just magically disappeared. [You hear many times that Miltons House (the one that there staying) has many secret passages. And seeing as Roman being the killer and all seemed to knew alot of them (after being able to trap Sid in the movie room and found Jennifer in the stairway Its quite possible that the wall was another secret passage to somewhere else.]

Towards the end of the movie when the killer confronts Sidney, she shoots him 6 times leaving a crescent of bullet holes in his costume, but the next time we see him the holes are gone. Later, when he reveals himself he shows Sidney his Kevlar vest and the bullet holes are back. [If you look very closely, you will see little white holes in the suit.]