Cujo (1983) - 23 mistakes

Continuity: After Steve pushes Donna, the milk and eggs fall to the floor, and spill. In the next shot the size and the shape of the milk spillage is different than it was in the previous shot, and the position of the cracked eggs changes as well.

Continuity: When Cujo first attacks the car, he leaps and bounds all over it, smearing dirt and making muddy pawprints all over the windows and sides. In following shots, the muddy smears differ in shape and size, and then vanish.

Visible crew/equipment: The whole crew, including the boom operator, the cameraman, a camera crane and a reflector screen are reflected in the side of Vic's car, when he pulls up at Joe Campbell's farmyard, to get his car fixed.

Continuity: When Cujo tries to get through Gary's netted door, it rips the netting and damages the wooden poles in the frame. In subsequent shots the amount of damage done to the poles and netting differs.

Visible crew/equipment: A black camera sheild is clearly visible at the top of the frame in some shots, as Cujo chases the rabbit around the fields in the opening segment, in order to avoid the sun obstructing the shot.

Continuity: The position of the white chair, knocked over by Gary in the hallway, changes from when he initially pushes it over, when searching for a gun to kill Cujo, to after Cujo gets through the netted door, and a wideshot of the hall is shown.

Continuity: The books, papers and toys by Tad's lamp, on the desk underneath the lightswitch, change arrangement, and some extra items appear, from when he turns off the light, to when his parents come in after he screams

Visible crew/equipment: Cujo runs after a rabbit and it goes into a cave of bats. Cujo sticks its head in the hole, and the bats start flying around. The bat which lands on Cujo's nose, and subsequently bites him, has a string visible on it, holding it up.

Continuity: When the phone begins to ring, Cujo goes mad and starts bashing the side of the car in. He then shatters the passenger window of the car. In the very next shot it can be seen intact again and then alternates from shattered to intact from thereon.

Continuity: When Donna takes Tad into the house, she pushes some items off of the table, and lays Tad down on the table. In following shots, items around the floor and on the table change position. Most noticeably is the milk carton beside Tad's head.

Revealing: When Tad begs his Mom to try turning on the car, Tad crosses his fingers before his Mom asks him to.

Continuity: Donna unrolls the car windows for some air becuase they're stuck in the car in a heatwave. Then her window is rolled up again in the shot where she tries to start the engine for Tad. She then rolls it down again after this.

Continuity: After shutting his closet door, and running over to his lightswitch, we get views of Tad's room at mulitple angles. The toys on Tad's large white fluffy area carpet change position a few times, between the wide and close shots.

Continuity: After shutting his closet door, Tad runs over to his lightswitch. In this shot the lamp on the desk, beside the lightswitch, is standing high up. In the next closeup of Tad reaching the switch, the lamp is in a different position, then switches back.

Visible crew/equipment: When Donna retries starting the car, it starts, but only runs for a few seconds, then stops. In the shot through the windshield, as Donna keeps on trying to start the car again, the camera is reflected in the bottom of the windshield.

Continuity: The fence at the start of the movie changes as Cujo chases the rabbit. In the shot as they run towards it, there is just one straight plank running across the bottom. When they reach it, there is now an askew, diagonal plank attached to the straight one.

Continuity: The position of the book on top of the TV keeps changing, as Tad watches Scooby-Doo whilst eating his breakfast at the table, and as the conversation between Donna, Vic, Tad and Steve continues through the scene.

Visible crew/equipment: When Vic is at the elevator, about to leave the hotel, and Roger is talking to him, one or two crew members are reflected in the picture hanging on the wall next to the elevator.

Visible crew/equipment: There is a shadow of a crewmember passing over the fridge, as the camera pans along and follows Donna into the kitchen, in the scene where she goes to the sink for a glass of water, before being startled by Steve.

Visible crew/equipment: When Vic is about to leave Donna and Tad, aftering finding out about the affair Donna had, in a side view of Vic in the car, the boom mic is clearly reflected in shiny back of the side mirror for about twenty seconds.

Visible crew/equipment: When the telephone rings, Cujo bounds over and begins barking at it. After he has finished barking, he lingers in the window frame, and then, you can see a crewmember's hand come in, and pull him down from the ledge.

Continuity: When Vic picks Tad up at his camp, we see Tad dip his finger in paint and begin finger painting. He then sees his dad and runs to him and gives him a hug and there is no paint on either of his hands or his dad's suit.

Audio problem: In the morning, Tad is watching TV and eating his breakfast. He is watching an episode of Scooby-Doo, however it is clear that the audio does not match up with the episode, and is blatantly out of sync with what is shown on the screen.