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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) - 85 mistakes

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Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Revealing: When the UFO makes the huge flash that knocks everyone in the cemetery down, one of the police officers kicks a tombstone as he falls and it wobbles back and forth.

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Continuity: When the men first enter the spaceship, one of the windows shows an afternoon sky and the one next to it shows a nighttime sky.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the pilots are driving the plane and a spaceship pass them you can see a shadow of a microphone.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Eros shows the men the monitor, look at the monitor carefully and you can see the reflection of the studio lights.

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Continuity: When the police are driving to the cemetery, it is daytime and their car is a standard police car with lights and sirens. When they reach the cemetery, it is night and the car is an ordinary car, without lights and sirens, and a different colour.

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Revealing: Jeff Trent, Col. Edwards and Lt. Harper grab some guns and take a walk in the graveyard, and a prop tree almost falls over as Col. Edwards walks by and brushes up against it with his shoulder.

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Continuity: A man at the old man's funeral says "It's getting dark out." It's already pitch black out.

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Revealing: After Tor Johnson drops Paula the police officer comes over to try to wake her. The carpet that's supposed to be the ground crumples under his feet.

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Visible crew/equipment: Col. Tom Edwards makes "The greatest decision of his career" in front of a clear sky, and you can see his shadow fall on the fabric covered wall behind him.

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Revealing: When the flying saucers leave the planet, you can see their shadows on the fake planet's surface.

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Revealing: When Bela Lugosi walks off screen, it's obviously a freeze frame. The swaying tree stops moving and even though he was hit by a car, his shadow is still visible.

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Continuity: During Criswell's opening narration, the time of the story changes from taking place in the future ("Future events such as these will affect you in the future.") to taking place in the past ("what happened on that fateful day...").

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Continuity: When the flying saucer is seen taking off from the cemetery, it is saucer shaped. However, when it is on the ground the ship appears to be in the shape of a square building.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Colonel Edwards enters the General's office, the moving boom mic is visible at the top of the screen.

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Audio problem: In the graveyard, as Paula screams when Tor Johnson opens the car door, her mouth is not moving in sync with what we are hearing.

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Audio problem: After Tor Johnson drops her, Paula says, "Oh, I'll be alright" but her lips don't move.

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Deliberate "mistake": They keep using the same footage of Bela Lugosi walking in the cemetery, even the cars driving by out on the road are the same.

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Revealing: It's amazing how little equipment is in the plane: a shower curtain, a thermometer, and a cardboard steering wheel.

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Continuity: The co-pilot radios in to Burbank tower in the middle of the night. In the next shot we see the saucer and it's broad daylight.

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Continuity: When the flying saucers are spotted over Wash DC, the scene shows a rotating radar antenna. First it's rotating counter-clockwise, then in a subsequent scene it's rotating clockwise.

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