The Haunting (1999) - 33 mistakes

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.

Plot hole: Theo refers that Nell is from Boston, despite the fact that the two have just met, and Nell never mentioned that fact.

Continuity: Theo puts on a leather jacket, but in the next shot reflected in the mirror, she puts it on again.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Continuity: When Nell opens the ledger, it shows the first page. Two people are crossed out in the ledger. In between the rows which have been crossed out, there are ten rows of recorded people, which aren't crossed out. Nell then puts the ledger on her lap, and is still on the same page. Yet when it shows the page again, there are now only five rows in between the two crossed out ones.

Continuity: When Nell is looking at the ledger, in one shot she grabs at least one-hundred pages all together, and is about to flip them over to turn to a new page. In the next closeup she is now turning just one single page.

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.

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.

Visible crew/equipment: As Nell runs away and tries to hide in the carousel for the second time, the camera, in an above shot, passes behind a pillar. Just after that we see the reflection of a camera's tripod in one of the glasses across the room on the right side of the screen.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.