Factual error: When the survivors are first in the mall, you can see a store called Roots with a Canadian beaver logo. While the movie was filmed in Canada, it is supposed to take place in the USA where Roots has a different logo.
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) - 33 mistakes
Directed by Zack Snyder, starring Mekhi Phifer, Ving Rhames (add more)
Continuity: When Ana hands over the file to Cora, Cora grabs the file on the side. When it cuts she grabs it on the top of the file.
Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, when Ana is escaping from her husband, she crashes into the bath and in the process pulls down the shower curtain and rail. The shot from above shows the curtain rail landing on top of her, but when the shot immediately switches to show to show a close up of her sitting in the bath, the rail appears to be propped up just behind her right shoulder.
Revealing: As Ana is driving away from her home, when we see her car driving from a shot high above, we see a car crashing in to a gas station making a huge explosion. However the trees a few feet away from the explosion don't move. The shockwave would have made them react at least a bit.
Visible crew/equipment: When Michael is about to open the door where he finds the janitor, there is a close up shot of the door handle where you see the reflection of three studio spotlights.
Continuity: When Ana is done talking with Dr. Dandewar she gets to Cora's desk and places her files on the desk. When it cuts the brown file on the desk has moved.
Continuity: When the gang of survivors goes to Andy's gun shop, one of them shoots a zombie and he proceeds to fall on his knees. The scene cuts to the gang and then to the charging zombies and the shot zombie falls again.
Factual error: When they are eating, there's a box of chicken labelled PFK (Poulet Frit a la Kentucky), the French equivalent of KFC. This film take place in the USA, but has been filmed in Canada where most products are labelled in English and French.
Continuity: After Andy shoots the zombie that looks like Jay Leno, there are shots of the characters looking through binoculars. Tucker's and Steve's binoculars still have the lens caps on.
Continuity: When Dr. Dandewar has hung up the phone we see him holding the X-ray in his hand. When it cuts he is holding it with both hands.
Continuity: At the birth of the zombie baby and the shoot-out, the pregnant girl gets shot through the left eye blowing her eye socket apart. Afterwards, the main blonde girl surveys the area and now the pregnant lady's left eye is undamaged.
Deliberate "mistake": When the group is making their escape from the gun shop, and the security officer goes up to blow up the propane tank, there is no gunshot heard, only the explosion caused.
Revealing: When Ana and Luis shower together at the beginning of the movie, Ana's hair is very long, almost down to her waist. This is obviously a body double as the real Ana's hair is much shorter.
Continuity: At the very beginning, when Luis attacks Ana, she escapes into the bathroom and falls over into the tub. The rug on the floor is folded back in the shot from the top, but it is flat when Ana steps out of the tub.
Visible crew/equipment: When Ana is about to leave Cora she asks her if Cora can page Dr. Dandewar, then she starts walking. As Cora starts talking you can see the boom mic move reflected in the window right beside Cora's head.
Continuity: When Ana is talking to Cora at the beginning, Ana has her elbow on the counter and her hand behind her neck. Her hand changes positions from shot to shot.
Revealing: When the very pregnant Luda washes blood off of herself, she leans over the sink. The actress' very flat tummy is visible underneath her red top.
Continuity: The E.M.T.'s legs in back of ambulance when first shown are hanging over the red line on bumper. When they cut to farther shot, The legs are now pulled up more.
Continuity: When Norma places the case on the table, Ana says she shall go check on Luda while placing a box horizontally in the case. When it cuts the box is lying vertically.
Continuity: When Michael breaks the safety glass for the axe, some of the glass remains intact. When it cuts the glass is gone.
Continuity: When they crash their truck Steve jumps out of it. The truck is quite dusty and Steve's hand slides on the side of the truck leaving a mark in the dust. Later when Kenneth jumps out of the truck you can see the side has been wiped clean, removing not only Steve's mark, but a whole area of dust.
Continuity: When Ana leaves the hospital she approaches an ambulance. As the walkie-talkie scrambles she puts her arm on her hip. When it cuts her arm is down.
Continuity: When Ana is driving home we see an above shot of her car as she approaches Vivian. When it cuts to Ana stopping right next to Vivian you can see there a far more cars in the background than it was in the previous shots.
Continuity: When Dr. Dandewar hangs up the phone you can see the phone chord gets twirled up. When it cuts the chord is straight.
Plot hole: When Ana is driving away from her home, she stops on the road and a guy opens her door, scaring her into turning her car toward the curb, plowing through a guardrail. She couldn't have picked up a lot of speed, and those guardrails are supposed to always be reinforced on highways/interstates. At that angle she would have had to knock out at least 4 reinforcing beams (they use 'I' beams to reinforce them, and are intended to stop vehicles from passing through them, or slow them down immensely).
Revealing: When they use a gas cylinder and shoot it with a shotgun to wipe out a load of zombies, the resulting explosion as seen from above the trucks is way too big to have come from that small cylinder.
Continuity: After Norma has been killed and Ana says someone should say something, Kenneth moves forth while saying "There is nothing to say," and Nicole comes out from behind the counter and walks a few feet. When it cuts she is walking out from behind the counter again.
Continuity: When they are going to rescue Nicole from Andy's store, Michael shoots a zombie in the head and blood splatters on the side of the truck. The amount of blood on the side differs between the shots.
Continuity: When they are backing up the truck, it hits the fence on the left side bending almost the whole fence. When it cuts the fence is suddenly intact.
Continuity: In the beginning when Ana is standing beside Dr. Dandewar who is speaking on the phone we see her looking away from him. When it cuts to him hanging up the phone she looks at him and he has moved a feet away from the wall.
Continuity: When Vivian bites Luis Ana grabs Vivian, and some of Vivian's hair hangs over Ana's hand. When it cuts to Ana dragging Vivian off Luis the hair is under Ana's hand.
Continuity: When Andre is walking alone and gets to one of the mall's entrances he wipes his forehead. When it cuts he is wiping his eye.
Continuity: When Ana and Kenneth are walking through the tunnel, as Andre fires at them, Kenneth is standing in the sunlight shining in to the tunnel. When it cuts to Kenneth and Ana bending down the sun isn't shining inside the tunnel anymore.
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