Great sites

Anything Hollywood

Atomic Popcorn

Banned in Hollywood

Bits & Pieces

Blockbuster Buzz

Book mistakes

CanMag

CHUD

The Daily Column

Daily Stab

Defamer

Double Viking

The Evil Beet

Film Drunk

Filmofilia

Filmspotting

Foundry Music

Game mistakes

Geek Tyrant

Gone Hollywood

Hollyscoop

Hollywood Outbreak

I Am Bored

I Love Bacon

Joblo movie news

Movie Banter

Movie Buzz

Movie spoilers

Movie timeline

Other crap

Screenjunkies

Sky movie reviews

Something Really Funny

Tengossip

Trailer Addict

Unreality Magazine

Trivia

In the original House on Haunted Hill (1959), character Frederick Loren was played by Vincent Price. In this version of House on Haunted Hill, actor Geoffrey Rush's character's name is Steven Price. See more...

Mistake pictures

Movie Mistakes blog

Popular blog posts:

Top 15 biggest Harry Potter film mistakes

The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies

10 Twilight mistakes in pictures

The 20 biggest Friends mistake pictures

10 Biggest mistakes in The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Update alerts | Exclude type?

House on Haunted Hill (1999) - 23 mistakes

starring Famke Janssen, Geoffrey Rush, Peter Gallagher, Taye Diggs (add more)

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Mistakes
Trivia
Corrections
Questions
Submit
⇑
⇓

Deliberate "mistake": When Eddie and "Jennifer" are walking around the house alone, "Jennifer" is trying to tell Eddie that she's really Sara. But By the time she is explaining that her name is actually Sara and not "Jennifer", Eddie has disappeared. She doesn't find him until later... But from the moment she finds him (and he is talking to her) he calls her Sara... but he never actually heard her say that. He was gone. Also, after they all get back together, a few of the other people start calling her Sara as well....but no one actually heard her say that her name was Sara.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Revealing: When the house has been locked down at the beginning of the film no moonlight could come in, however when the guests are being shown the coffin with the guns in there is a shaft of bright moonlight shining on to it.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: Right after Evelyn gets electroshocked, Blackburn takes off her mouth guard and a pool of blood leaks around her lips and down the side of her cheeks. In the next shot, there is a little bit on her lips, and a lot down the side of her cheeks, and several shots later she is seen with only a little dribble down her cheeks and none on her lips.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Factual error: In the scene where the cast find the guns in the tiny coffins, they mention that it is not possible to tell if they are loaded because the clips are welded. Being semi-automatic pistols, simply pulling back the slide & ejecting the first round would have easily determined whether live or blank rounds had been loaded.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Revealing: In the scene where the girl is going to shoot Vincent Price watch closely as she pulls the trigger. You can see the wires pulling the gun from beneath to give it the realism of the blast.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Deliberate "mistake": In the scene about the Terror Incognita roller-coaster, when the rails break, they have ragged ends at the gap; after the first roller-coaster train derails, the rails move together again to close the gap and allow the second roller-coaster train to pass safely; but as you see the rails move together again, they now have neatly cut ends at the gap, not ragged ends. A deliberate error to mislead the audience, but an error nonetheless.

Edit Time
⇑
⇓

Revealing: In the opening scene of the film we see the patients of the institute smash through a cubicle where a guy is, watch closely (preferably in slow motion or frame by frame). The glass breaks away very very easily, obviously some kind of special easy-to-break glass used for this scene.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When the guests are shown the guns in the casket, upon the first look inside they are not straight or in a perfect line, but in the close up shot they are straight.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the scene where Evelyn and Steven are fighting, he has his hands around Evelyn's neck. Her hair is next to Steven's hand, then it is away from it. This changes from shot to shot.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Factual error: At the end of the movie when the survivors escape the house they see the sun rise on the horizon. The problem? They are in California and the sun comes up on the east coast.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: At the start of the film when we first see Evelyn enter the house on haunted hill, she drops her briefcase at the door right on some kind of design on the floor, in the following shot the briefcase has moved forward some distance from where it was in the previous shot.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Sara and Eddie are in the saturation chamber thinking that Price killed Blackburn, they open the chamber and discover the body of Blackburn. When the body falls out the arms and legs face towards Sara, then when they look at it on the floor it is now facing the opposite direction.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the scene where Chris Kattan is sitting on the couch telling everyone that they are going to die and just before Eddie slaps the glass out of his hand, you see a back shot of Chris pouring the last of a bottle into a glass, then it cuts to the front and shows him pouring it again.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Eddie and Sara are walking around in the basement, Eddie splits up from Sara, and then Sara spots him standing next to a doorway. In the first shot Sara walks around the corner and spots Eddie, yet in the following shot Sara is actually leaning against the doorway.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Visible crew/equipment: When Sarah and Eddie return to the saturation chamber after losing the other two, the camera shot is high up looking down into the room from a corner. In the upper right hand corner above the saturation chamber you can see the microphone fully in frame and "hovering" as they re-enter that room. It is also there a second time after the camera angle changes.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Sara follows the imaginary Eddie into the room containing the big tank of blood, in one shot we see that Sara passes a glass medical cabinet, and in the following shot she is seen passing it again.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Factual error: At the opening scene of the film when one of the insane people of the institute shoves pencils into the guys neck, the pencils we see are not long enough to go right through his neck. The insane patient would have to be holding the pencils inside the guys neck for them to go right through him.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Factual error: Pretty precisely at 46:20, in the scene where Eddie and Sarah lost sight of each other down in the cellar, Sarah follows the apparition she thinks is Eddie. While doing so we see writing at a wall: "stehen nicht bei türen oder fenster wann dem Alarm gehört war" . The sentence contains so many mistakes that it's difficult to understand, but it roughly translates into "don't stand in doorways or windows after hearing the alarm". But it's a cellar, so there shouldn't be windows, and if the reason for the warning is the locking device: that closes only exits, and there are none of those in the cellar.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: Near the middle of the film when a few of the people in the house venture down to try and find the control room, Pritchett leads them to the Saturation chamber. When Eddie and Sara are leaving the room, we can see that Eddie passes Pritchett then Sara does, yet in the following shot, Eddie is still shoulder to shoulder with Pritchett and passing him again, and Sara is not behind Eddie, but on his right shoulder to shoulder with him. (Slow-mo is required).

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: At the start of the film when Pritchett has led them all up to the house. In one shot we see Blackburn saying his line, "Wheres our host, the fabulous Mr Price?" look behind him at Pritchett he has his hand up to his glasses, then in the following shot he has his hand down by his side.

Edit Submitted by The-Immortal Time