The Shining (1980) - 299 mistakes
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Barry Nelson, Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall (add more)
Continuity: Wendy drags Jack across the kitchen floor from the Colorado Lounge to the storeroom and she pulls him past the wooden table on the right twice between shots. We see this spot later as she sits crying and the edge of the table is straight across from the storeroom door. When we see him lying on the floor having passed the table he's right up against the door. In the next shot she starts pulling him from about ten feet further back covering ground we saw in the previous shot.
Continuity: It was 8:20AM when his plane landed and when Dick Hallorann calls his friend Larry at the garage the clock on the wall reads 9:07. When Larry asks him how long it will take to get there he says about five hours but in the next scene where we see him driving to Durkin's garage, it's obviously the middle of the night.
Other: The miniature of the hedge maze is not accurate. As Jack leans onto the table we see 9 individual sections and 4 stone benches on the side to the left of the entrance. As Wendy and Danny walk past this spot on their way to explore the maze, there are 7 sections and 3 benches on the side to the left of the entrance closest to the Overlook. The front of the miniature has 3 sections to the left of the entrance but the actual maze has 2.
Continuity: As Danny goes up to the apartment to get his fire engine he looks at Jack sitting on the side of the bed and the drapes on the right to the screen (and the toilet paper in the bathroom) are moving from a ventilation fan. In the next shot as Jack looks at Danny standing in the doorway, the drapes are still.
Other: When Jack walks over to the miniature of the hedge maze we see the Overlook Hotel notice board on the wall in the center of the screen and it has exactly the same information written on it as when Jack walked past it on his way to Mr. Ullman's office for his interview. These notice boards tell of the events going on at the hotel and would have been changed daily or weekly if it were a real hotel, and he had the interview long before they closed for the winter.
Continuity: Dick Hallorannn discusses "Shining" with Danny and says, "How long have you been able to do it?" and we see a spoon sitting on the edge of the table behind and to the right of Danny. Several shots later Danny talks about Tony and says, "It's like I go to sleep, and he shows me things", and the spoon is gone.





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