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The Haunting (1999) - 32 mistakes

Directed by Jan de Bont, starring Bruce Dern, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Virginia Madsen (add more)

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

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Revealing: Right after Nell sends Hugh to hell, Dr. Marrow and Theo come out of hiding behind a pillar. As Marrow puts his hand on the pillar, it squishes in as if it was made of foam rubber, instead of stone.

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Continuity: When Nell opens the ledger which lists the dead children, in the first shot there are no people crossed out in the ledger. In the following closeup, there are.

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Continuity: When Nell arrives at Hill House, after Mr. Dudley opens the gate and she drives through, between shots the amount of brown leaves on the ground around the gates increases.

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Continuity: As Nell pokes around in the furnace under the fireplace with her iron poker, the bones and ash in it tend to move around, changing their positions many times between shots.

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Continuity: While they're all having their first dinner at Hill House, everyone has a little red wine. The wine levels in Lili Taylor's glass go up and down between different shots.

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Continuity: In the scene where Theo first sees her room, she runs and flips into the bed. You then see her head fall back onto the pillow. The flip should have caused her feet to hit the pillow.

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Continuity: When the older people come at the end of the movie, the part of the gate that fell on the car was gone.

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Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the film, when the Dudley's arrive, Mr. Dudley opens his door, and in the far right of the door window, a crewmembers head is reflected.

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Continuity: When Nell is searching for Dr. Marrow, and she stops his work on the table, the tape recorded on the table changes position between shots.

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Factual error: The original and remake are both set in America, yet the outside shot of the flat at the start of the remake is in England. It is blatantly a 1920's London council flat, probably one of those in The Borough. The original 1962 film also contained British background details. Was this intended as homage to the original?

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Continuity: When Nell finds the picture album of Hugh Crain and his wife it passes around 3 or 4 pages. But when Nell grabs it, it's about 10 or 20.

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Other: Nell's hair is considerably lighter in the scene where it starts moving by itself - clearly CGI.

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Continuity: When Theo and Nell are talking in Theo's bedroom, in one shot Theo removes her black cardigan. In the next shot, you can see in the mirror, that she removes it again.

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Continuity: When Nell is in the study, the photo album of Crane opens. It then nearly falls so she grabs it. As she grabs it you can see the page has a picture on it, of two people's face very close up. But in the next closeup of the same page, the picture has changed and it is now Crane standing alone in the centre of the picture.

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Audio problem: When Nell is helping Theo carry her bags to her room, Theo turns to Nell and says "well, everyone calls me Nell, don't you love it here?" Immediately, Theo then says "I love it." But her lips don't move, she's just smiling.

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Continuity: In the scene in which the girls enter the playroom with the revolving floor, you see them, in a shot from the back, step onto the moving floor. In the next shot, from the top, they are back in the entry and step onto the moving floor a second time.

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Continuity: Luke's hair changes length and style throughout the film. It starts off quite long at the back and sides over his ears then after Nell and Theo hear noises on the first night and Luke comes to the door to see what's happening its been cut, coloured and layered then when he's speaking to Liam Neeson a bit later on it's long again.

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Continuity: During dinner, Theo starts pouring a glass of wine for Mary. In one shot she has poured about a quarter of the glass full. But in the nest shot the glass is nearly full.

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Continuity: During the movie, Theo brags about her black high heeled boots. When we see the boots, they obviously have a thin high heel. Yet in the scene where Theo and Nell find the carousel room, you get a clear shot of Theo's boots and they have a platform bottom that is solid, not a heel. Probably done for balance, but it's pretty noticeable.

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Continuity: At the first afternoon, Nell is filling out some tests in the Great Hall. We see her put down the same paper twice, one from the ground shot; the other from overhead.

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