Corrected entry: When Val and Earl meet Rhonda for the first time she asks if there is any drilling, explosions etc. and they say no. She explains the graph's readings are strange and thought it could be because of possible works going on. A bit later as Val and Earl are leaving Perfection they come across 2 workmen drilling the road.
Corrected entry: Rhonda has light colored pants on earlier. When she is on the water tower, she appears to have new jeans on.
Correction: That's shown in the film. She gets accidentally rolled up in barbed wire and has to take off her pants and boots to escape. While her wounds are being tended, Miguel hands her a pair of jeans and sneakers.
Corrected entry: When Valentine grabs Mindy off the pogo stick, you can tell it's been stuck into the ground so the actress can stand on it and be ready for Kevin Bacon to grab her (as opposed to Kevin Bacon grabbing her while she's bouncing). After she's grabbed, you can see the pogo stick shake back and forth without falling over.
Correction: Although the pogo stick has been rigged not to fall over, that isn't a mistake. After Val grabs Mindy they look back at the pogo stick which is still standing perfectly upright when naturally it should have fallen over. The graboid then sucks it into the ground. The implication is that the creature grabbed the pogo stick just as Val caught up to Mindy.
Corrected entry: When Val and Earl and trying to get away in the truck, Earl scolds him saying "You're gonna burn the clutch!" In earlier scenes you can see that their Mazda B-series truck is an automatic.
Correction: First off the red Mazda belongs to Ronda, and yes we know it was an automatic. After the pole vault scene she goes in the back sliding window and shifts to drive, but has nothing to do with that scene. Val and earl's truck is a blue 1968 jeep also an automatic but shifts into 4 wheel drive. Both have clutches, automatic clutches. Hence can be burned if enough stress is applied.
Correction: Automatic gearboxes have clutches - centripital ones, which can burn out.
Corrected entry: When the station wagon is found buried, not only is the radio on but the headlights are as well. Given the attack occurred at night and it is now mid-morning and the fact that the car can't run underground, even the best car batteries can't last more than an hour.
Correction: The best car batteries will last a lot more than an hour. I've left my lights on accidentally when I parked for work and found them still on 8 hours later. Car started up just fine too.
In modern cars I would agree with you - but this car is almost 20 years old and the battery would not last more than an hour or so with both the radio and the headlights running.
Doesn't mean the battery is 20 years old.
The sound of the radio is not coming from the car. It's a small portable radio the Dr. Has in his car. You see it get turned on by accident when the Dr.'s wife kicks the radio during the attack.
The car radio wasn't on. It was the transistor radio she knocked over in the back of the car when she climbed through.
Correction: It wasn't the car radio, it was a portable radio.
Correction: Battery power and battery life depend on the battery and not on the car it's in.
Continuity mistake: When the snakeoid is chasing Val and Earl after they lose their horses, they run along a fence and the monster causes all the fence posts to fall over backwards. But shortly after, all the fence posts are seen to be upright, although some are tilted a little to the right.
Suggested correction: We only see 4 fence posts fall over in total. Considering there are probably 50+ fence posts there, I don't see how this can be an error.
Continuity mistake: When Val and Earl are being chased by the graboid in the first shot it appears that the graboid is going perpendicular to the fence (you can see this because of the wires that cross it). But in the next shot the graboid appears to be going parallel to the fence. (00:33:20)
Suggested correction: The graboid made a turn.
Corrected entry: When Mindy is getting her picture taken next to one of the graboid's tongues, look at the shelf of movies behind her when the camera zooms out its farthest in that shot; in the second row down (I think it's the in the second row down), if you look really closely, you can see that one of the movies is Tremors. (00:25:40)
Correction: This is simply not true. The edge of the tremors VHS is black with Tremors written down the middle in orange writing with a small picture at the top of the main characters. There is no black video with orange writing in this scene.
They wouldn't have known what the VHS tape's final design was going to look like when shot it well over a year prior.
Corrected entry: Val climbs up a metal electricity pylon to try to help Edgar. They are in the middle of the desert at noon (note the shadows) - the metal of the pylon would be unbearably hot. Val would be badly burned, but he doesn't even wear gloves.
Correction: We don't know what time of year this film takes place in and it does get cold in the desert occasionally. It could be fall, spring or even winter for all we know. There are shots of tall mountains that have snow on them so it's hard to say whether it's cold or hot.
Corrected entry: When Val finally gets the truck moving after being held by the graboid, you can't see any of the remaining tentacle holding on to the differential. When they get to town, it's now there where you should have been able to see it. (00:19:40)
Correction: You wouldn't see the tentacle anyway because they deliberately panned the cameras up whilst filming as to not show the axle at all for this very reason.
Corrected entry: The radio that was taken up onto the roof was not battery powered and should not have continued working because it was no longer plugged into an electrical outlet.
Correction: Not necessarily. It is possible it is battery powered. I have had many radios this large in the past that have both battery and AC power.
Correction: The original post is correct. For a radio that size to be effective it would need to be attached to a DC car battery or converted to AC for a household plug. In any case this is a movie error.
A radio like that can run on 6 D cells. Trust me, I've owned enough radios to know better. At this point this mistake is semantics.
Factual error: When Val is talking to Burt on the CB radio and desperately trying to tell him to get out of his basement, Burt is using a handheld CB. After Val's very last transmission, Burt is now holding a rifle, not the CB. When the Graboid crashes through Burt's basement wall, we hear him say over Val's CB, "Jesus Chr..." his transmission was cut off. First of all, Burt wasn't holding the CB so he wasn't transmitting at the time. Second, there are portable CBs that you can lock the PTT button for extended transmissions (I owned one), but that wasn't the case here. Finally, even if by some chance Burt accidentally did lock the PTT button before putting it down, it wouldn't have cut off. The Graboid broke through away from where Burt was standing and talking and couldn't affect the CB. It was done for dramatic effect of the scene. (00:58:30)
Suggested correction: Could be he put the CB down on the PTT button (it's a rather large one) and it stopped transmitting when the tremors caused it to flip off it.
Corrected entry: Rhonda does a pretty good job on keeping her truck on the road, especially considering her head is below the wheel.
Correction: Yes, she does. But since the road is straight, and we only see this scene of her driving that way for about 5 seconds, it's not hard to believe that she could hold the wheel straight for that short amount of time.
Correction: If you look very closely you can see the real driver.
Correction: The small jackhammers the road workers are using are highly unlikely to be able to affect a distant seismograph. She meant things like oil or deep core drilling. In addition, it's quite possible Val and Earl didn't even know about the road workers.
Greg Dwyer