Revealing mistake: When Spitz is stabbed with the pitchfork, you can see the line where the fake chest is. It's a different color.
Revealing mistake: In the beginning when Michael crawls out of the mine shaft that was just bombed he floats downstream. You see that he floats up to the old man's dock. If you look at him you can clearly see that he is wearing a black lifejacket. The filmmakers didn't even try to hide it under his suit, it is clearly visible on the outside of his jumpsuit.
Revealing mistake: When Rachel is taking a shower, you can plainly see she is wearing white panties.
Revealing mistake: When Jamie is in the attic, she sees Max hanging by his neck. You can tell it's a stuffed toy dog.
Revealing mistake: When Michael (dressed up as Mikey) brakes the car when Tina asks him to stop at the store, you see that when he brakes, the rear red lights don't come on. (01:13:25)
Revealing mistake: You can see the knife blade bend when Michael stabs Tina. (01:06:50)
Revealing mistake: It's supposed to be Halloween, yet the trees are green and full.
Revealing mistake: Notice when Michael comes up out of the water at the hermit's hut. He has a bulge on his back, likely a safety harness or padding of some kind.
Answer: Director Dominique Othenin-Girard made the puzzling decision to try and humanize Michael in this film by showing he still had some traces of emotion that could be momentarily reached. Thus when Jamie talks to him, he briefly recovers his humanity, takes off his mask and sheds a single tear. Othenin-Girard felt that this made Michael more frightening, because his evil was so great that even if he still had regular emotions that occasionally emerged, the evil inside of him would eventually take over. But it does kind of come out of nowhere and contradict the other films... hence this idea was more-or-less ignored in future sequels.
TedStixon