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At the beginning of the movie when Halle Barry is talking with her husband in his office, every time a shot cuts to him sitting at his desk, the way items are arranged on the desk changes. See more...

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Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

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There was absolutely no need for the dead girl to possess Halle Barry in order to murder the husband, as the girl was perfectly capable of murdering him herself. She managed to open doors for Halle Barry and to cut her arms. Why couldn't she have performed the murder herself? [The girl knew that if Halle was charged for the murder then she would try to figure out what happened to clear her name and to get out of the hospital. If the ghost killed him herself, then Halle wouldn't have gone has deep as she did to figure out the truth and expose the sheriff and her husband for what they were.]
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When Halle Berry is returning home in the stormy night, you can see that just the van's position lights are on. Just after she sees the girls and lands off the road, both the position and the fog lights are on. [Being rainy outside, she could've turned the fog lights on while on her way.]
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You are the police looking for an escaped madwoman who killed her husband and is in denial. Where is the first place you would look? If you said her house, congrats, you are smarter than the cops in this movie. Yet Halle Barry manages to spend the entire night there crying over pictures without so much as a knock on the door. [It is possible that Miranda escaped late at night, when it was almost sunrise. Therefore, she only spent about half an hour or so at her home.]
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When Dr. Grey (Halle Berry) is driving home in the beginning of the film, the radio announcer says it's raining hard in Connecticut and New Hampshire. These states don't border each other. The announcer would have mentioned Massachusetts. [Perhaps it was not raining in Massachusetts.]
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In the scene where Halle Berry is trying to escape the hospital, she has a ring of keys she's stolen to exit through all the gates/doors of the hospital. In every shot of her opening another door she always picks the right key for the door the first time. Even though she worked at the hospital I don't think someone else's keys would be labeled. [You're simply assuming they're not labelled. And even if they weren't, you could also assume the use of master keys for certain sets of doors or areas of the hospital. ]
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In the scene where Halle Berry escapes from the mental hospital, the guard gives her his car keys and tells her to take his car. She finds the car by pressing the remote on the keychain and looking for a car's lights to blink. The car the keys end up belonging to is such an old crappy car that no one could possibly be expected to believe that it would have a remote. [I have seen remotes on many older and crappier cars, its as simple as installing a kit at your house, or having one installed by a mechanic.]
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In the shower scene, Halle Berry puts her arms up to shield her face from the attack by the ghost, thereby exposing the outside of her arms to the blade. In a later scene when she's being interrogated by the sheriff, we see that "Not Alone" has been slashed into her inner arm. [She holds her arm up in front of her face so her inner arm is facing outward.]
Edit Corrected by eileen