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Halloween (1978) - 24 corrections

Directed by John Carpenter, starring Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles (add more)

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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Michael stabs the teen boy who goes to get a beer for his girlfriend. In the closeup, even though the teen boy was stabbed pretty much straight through the heart clear through to the wall, there is no blood whatsoever dripping on the floor or down his pants. If you cut the major arteries to the heart, there would be great volumes of blood streaming down both the front and back of the teen. [He is stabbed below the heart.]
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In certain shots, you can see that the William Shatner mask had not been fully painted white, because you can see the flesh coloured neck, but in other shots it is fully painted. [Not a mistake, just the lighting. There was only one mask used throughout filming.]
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When Annie drops Laurie off at Tommy's house the front door of his house is glass, but later it is a plain door. [Watch again and you will see that the door is not glass, but plain with the exception of a shadow, when Annie is dropping Lindsay off at Tommy's house.]
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During the closing montage of shots, you can see Michael carrying Annie on the left side of the shot at the Wallace house. [How is that a mistake? There's not enough information here, or a reason why it's a mistake.]
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In the scene where Michael is stabbing his sister, the point of view camera is on his sister. But because the audience can't see what he's doing, the camera pans to the right to show the knife. Someone actually stabbing a person would not look away from the victim to watch the stabbing motion of the knife. [You are merely speculating into the mind of the killer. It is equally as likely he was focusing on the knife as looking anywhere else in the room. ]
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Why didn't Doctor Loomis notice Michael's car until it was almost to late? The car was parked right across the street. [Character's ignorance, hence character mistake.]
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When Laurie is waiting for Linda to pick her up, she is waiting with a pumpkin and it's still very light out. But when they arrive to the houses where they babysit, it's dark outside. However, it's only a few blocks away from their home. [It's late autumn and late afternoon, so the sun probably set very early and very quickly.]
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The date on the tombstone above Annie says that Judith Myers was born November 10, 1947, and died October 31, 1963. that would make her 15 (not quite 16 yet) at the time of death, yet everyone says that she was 17 years old. [Lot's of people, especially at that age, round up or down their age, depending on when their birthday is. Most people would say she's 16 this year, or is 17 next year, or in a couple of months, not taking the time to figure out the actual age. Also, if she was a grade ahead in school, or started at 5 instead of 6 like I did, she could be thought of as older since her peer group would be that age.]
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When Laurie stabs Michael in the head with her knitting needle, she stabs him in the upper left part of his head, but in the next shot the needle is now in the left part of his neck. [I have seen the move many times. She has always stabbed him in the neck.]
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On their way to babysit, Annie and Laurie run into sheriff Brackett who's investigating a recent break-in at the local hardware store. He reveals to the girls that the only things taken were "a couple of knives, some rope, and a Halloween mask." First, how can it be a break in if it's the middle of the day and the sign on the door says "OPEN"? Second, if we're to assume that Michael was responsible for stealing such a fine selection of items, why wasn't the break-in reported in the morning when Michael was already shown wearing the mask? [It wasn't in the morning that he broke in it was around 3:00. Also it could be called a break-in if someone enters through the back so Michael probably got in that way. It might have taken a while for the shopkeeper to notice the break in, then search to see what's been taken.]
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In the scene where Laurie is walking home from school after her friends have left her, there is a little brown leaf stuck in her hair at the top of her head, but when she turns around and bumps into the Sheriff, the leaf is gone suddenly. [When she turned around, the leaf could of easily been blown out of her hair or it simply fallen out.]
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When Michael gets shot by the doctor, he falls off the balcony. In the next shot, the doctor pulls the trigger again. What was he going to shoot at? [Dr. Loomis was angry to see Michael, so pulling the trigger is a natural reaction after seeing him. It was just hysteria.]
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At the beginning when Michael kills Judith, he puts on the clown mask and you can see that before he picked it up there were two eyeholes but once he put it on there was just a large space and the two eyeholes aren't visible. [This is a widely accepted filming technique, that properly and correctly shows the POV of the person behind the mask, that has two distinct eye holes. If you wear a mask you won't see two separate images.]
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When Michael is going through the dining room, you can see the clock says 10 o'clock. But when he is going up the stairs you can hear the bell chime 12 times signifying 12 o'clock. [The clock only chimes ten times.]
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In the beginning after Michael goes upstairs to kill his sister, he picks up the clown mask. But right before he picks up the mask the camera runs out of film and they have to reload the camera and there is a half a seconds pause of a black screen. [This was just him putting on the mask. If you ever put a mask on you are blinded by part of it till you get the eye holes in place.]
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At the end of the film when they show the different scenes in stills, the knife is shown on the floor by the sofa. Laurie had dropped it earlier after stabbing Michael with the knitting needle. He then has it again upstairs when she's in the closet. He drops it after being stabbed with the hanger. She picked it up when she stepped over him getting out of the closet and dropped it by the bed. How did the knife get back downstairs on the floor for the final stills? [As the Sheriff has already pointed out that "a couple of knives, some rope, and a halloween mask" had been stolen from the shop, we know 'the shape' has more than one knife.]
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At the beginning, when Michael is about to kill his sister, we see through his eyes. When his sister turns around to see him, she has to look way up, meaning that he would be very tall, when infact, he is only 6 years old. [The sister is sitting at her vanity, brushing her hair. That is why Michael appears taller than her.]
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When Laurie spots Michael standing behind the clothes line the shot goes from Michael, to Laurie, and back to the empty spot where Michael was standing. However, Laurie never actually looked away from the area, only the camera did, so why is she so frightened when he is gone. She throws the window shut and back away, surely she saw him walk away... [She's creeped out by the whole incident, she's not scared that he disappeared.]
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In the opening scene, after young Michael comes out of the house with the bloody knife and his parents see him, they only utter the words "Michael?" and stand there, staring at him with their hands in their pockets. Don't you think they would be curious as to why the knife is bloody and go inside? They don't seem disturbed at all. [Bad acting, sure, but hardly a plot hole. Given that Michael was carted off to a mental institute, it's pretty obvious that they did eventually do all of the things you mention. Besides, if you came home to find your kid wandering around with a blood smeared knife, you'd probably be a little shocked to do anything immediately too.]
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When Loomis shoots Michael and he falls over the balcony, you can see that he hopped over it and did not just fall. [Actually he didn't "hop". You don't even have to look closely, on the reversal shot, he just walks straight off the balcony. There must have been a plank that he wlaked off, in order that he didn't need to jump.]
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