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The Haunting (1999) - 52 corrections

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

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry Mr and Mrs Dudley couldn't take care of Hill House, mainly for its size, not to mention the budget necessary to keep it as clean as shown. [Well, it wouldn't be impossible especially due to the fact that nobody uses it much and nobody lives in. The government or some type of local council might pay the Dudleys to keep it well maintained, or they may have obtained a grant/loaned sum of money to be able to fix it up and keep it well maintained and organized. Nothing is too impossible, and as the details of the Dudleys job given in the movie are very brief, the story behind the Dudleys job taking care of the mansion will only reamin a mystery, not a mistake.]
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Entry The papers that Nell fills out are done with a marker, however we see her using a pencil. [There is a marker visible on the couch beside her in the overhead shot, which she could have easily used for the previous tests she has completed. She is using a pencil in this current shot as she fills the paper out, yes, but she could have decided to swap what media she was using. It is also possible that she is filling out the tests using the pencil first (especially due to the fact that they are mazes; therefore if she made a mistake she could erase it), and she might then be drawing over the pencil lines with the marker pen once she has completed the test correctly.]
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Entry As Nell first interacts with the child ghost in the wind-blowing curtain corridor, we first see there's something in the end of the corridor. In the shot where Nell follows the child, it isn't there anymore. [There is nothing at the end of the corridor, plus when she runs away from the curtains she doesn't go down the same corridor, she makes a right turn down another one.]
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Entry When Eleanor arrives at the house, and she drives her car around to the door, she gets out and is not carrying anything at all. Then when they show her inside the house she has a suitcase in her hands. [Look very carefully when she gets out of the car by the door. You can see the bag in her hand as she walks around the back of the car to the door.]
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Entry Nell's facial expression changes between front and side shots, when the spirits are moving her hair. [No it doesn't.]
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Entry When Nell is introduced to her room there is a vase with flowers on the right bed sideboard. From there on, it's no longer there. [Nell is introduced to her room in the early morning when she arrives. The next scene where we see her room occurs at night-time, giving her plenty of time to move them off the sideboard if she wanted to use the sideboard for space (to put a drink of water down, for example,) or if she decided the flowers would look better somewhere else. This mistake would be valid if they disappaered between shots, however due to the huge time-space between the scenes, anything could have happened to them.]
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Entry When the four of them are running away from the nursery room, the doors on both sides of the hallway start closing. Watch very closely, as one crew member is seen on the other side of one of the doors. [I've watched this scene very closely many times, looking for this crewmember - no success.]
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Entry The amount of spilled blood changes on the glass that Mary has on her eye. [There are only two shots of her with the glass over her eye; one where they show Nell placing the glass over it (and in this shot the glass is clean.) Then two shots later as she walks out the room crying, there is blood on the glass, which is to be expected. There is no mistake here.]
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Entry As Nell finds Dr Marrow's voice recorder, she presses play and hears exactly what she needed, although she never pressed the rewind button. [An unlikely convenience - not a movie mistake.]
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Entry When the children go call Nell in the middle of the night, neither of Nell's feet are covered. But without moving, in the next shot, Nell's left foot is covered. [Actually she does roll over and move, and there is one shot in between these shots, making it perfectly capable for the covers to slip over her foot and cover it.]
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Entry The ceiling is collapsing behind Nell, while Theo is just a few rooms away and doesn't hear anything. [It's established that the house controls itself, therefore it can monitor its sound it makes, making rooms soundproof; therefore others can't hear it. That's why when Theo and Nell were in the room, and Luke came along, they asked if he could hear it but he said no. The house is able to isolate all the loud bangs and noises it makes.]
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Entry The longer section where Nell parks her car isn't there on the painting in front of Mary when she's playing the piano. [An inaccurate painting is not a movie mistake. There could be many resons why the carport was not included in the painting, or it could be that the carport was built after the painting was completed.]
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Entry When Luke hits with the candelabra on Hugh Crain's painting, notice the white-like scratches were already there. [There are not any scratches on the painting beforehand. When he gets up onto the table with the candelabra, he audibly swipes the painting twice, however he is out of shot when he does this. When it cuts to a closeup afterward, there are two scratches, just like you hear.]
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Entry When Nell has a hallucination and sees Mrs. Crain hanging in the Greenhouse, look closely and you can see it is a make-up doll. [While they probably did use a doll or dummy, there is absolutely nothing which reveals that Mrs. Crain is a 'make-up doll.' I watched this scene, and was quite impressed by how real looking the dummy they used is.]
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Entry While Luke is putting plastic on the window, you can very briefly see a crewman outside. [I looked as hard as I can to find this crewmember, but all I could see were brown leaves blowing around. I'm very, very sure there's no crewman there.]
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Entry When the children call Nell in the middle of the night, she finds bloody footprints on the floor. When she follows the footprints with her eyes, some of them are on the wood floor, some are on the carpet. But when she actually follows them step by step, the carpet's ones are missing. [This is wrong. When Nell follows the bloody footprints with her eyes we see they go across the wooden floor, then across the carpet, and then back off of the carpet and along the wooden floor again. When she exits the room we only see a tiny part of the carpet, and you can see the bloody footprints alongside the carpet. This is because she has already passed the footprints that went across the carpet (off-camera).]
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Entry Nell's car isn't seen in the carport in the first overhead shot of Hill House, in the first morning. [The car is parked behind the carport wall, so we cannot see it.]
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Entry Strangely enough, neither Theo nor Eleanor noticed that everytime they were in the room corridor, there was smoke coming out of the floor. [Strangely enough, this is not a movie mistake, it's a character mistake.]
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Entry Liam Neeson can't open the compartment in the fireplace not only because of the iron, but also because he is standing on the door! [I don't really find this a mistake. Yes, he has his foot on the iron door, but he can most probably tell, just by pulling the door upward, that it is stuck and will not budge. If the iron poker was NOT stopping the door from being able to be pulled up, then Dr. Marrow would probably just move his foot off of the iron door, because there is no force holding the door down.]
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Entry At the scene where Eleanor is alone in the huge room, some really big rock comes out of the area where the bones are buried. When a head swings through that area later on in the movie, she says "That's not what I saw." Did that huge rock just disappear? Where could such an enormous rock go? [We're talking about a huge haunted mansion here; if spirits can float through curtains, fountains can come to life and spit out blood, and stairs can make themselves collapse, I'm sure the huge object Nell saw, can disappear. And by the way, it wasn't a huge rock. By using slow-motion, I found out that it is in fact a huge, creepy statue.]
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