A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988) - 27 mistakes
Directed by Renny Harlin, starring Robert Englund
Revealing: When Alice is being blown towards the cinema screen, she grabs hold of one of the cinema chairs. You can clearly see she is actually holding a handle which is on top of the chair. This is blatantly visible when she lets go of it and flies off. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Alice is holding onto the edge of the wall in the cinema because she is being blown to the screen, between shots Alice's shoe flies off of her foot twice. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Freddy push Kristen into the quicksand you see only her hand sticking up. Then in the next shot suddenly you see her hair. Submitted by Mortug
Continuity: When Kristen falls into the quicksand, there's a shot of her from behind, and her back is covered in quicksand, although her back hasn't been in the sand yet. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Sheila's pen bleeds, she puts the pen down, then smears the blood around her physics test. Between shots, the way the blood has smeared changes. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Sheila's pen starts to bleed, she puts it down on her desk, with the lid off. In the next shot there's a lid on it, and the pen has also changed it position. Her inhaler has also changed position. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When the nib of Shelia's pen starts bleeding on her test, the pool of blood on her paper moves between shots. Submitted by Hamster
Visible crew/equipment: When Dan pulls up in his red truck, before he goes into the restaurant, you can see the crew reflected in the side of the truck. Submitted by Hamster
Revealing: After her brother's death, there is a scene in which Alice starts practicing with her brother's nun-chuks. They never show the real actress doing the tricks; instead, they cut to an angle from behind her and show a double who has darker, shorter hair than the real actress and is a bit bigger.
Continuity: At Rick's funeral, Debbie gives Alice her spike bracelet. The spikes are flat and there aren't that many of them, but at the end when Alice is getting decked out to fight Freddy she pulls the bracelet out of her drawer, and the spikes are very menacing looking and there are more of them.
Continuity: When Kristen meets the little girl drawing the chalk house, between the two shots before it starts raining, the chalk drawing changes. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Kincaid's dog runs under the bed, it kicks a carpet away from the bed. Beside the bedpost there is a white sock. When it cuts, the sock has moved onto the carpet. Submitted by Mortug
Continuity: In her dream, Kristen is bit by Kincaid's dog on her right arm. When she wakes up, the wound is on her left arm. Submitted by Hamster
Revealing: When Shelia is dying, Alice is trying to help her, but she is 'thrown' to the floor. Then there is another shot of Shelia, and you clearly see a pulse in her neck, although she's meant to be dead. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: After Kristen first falls into the quicksand, the shot changes, and a palm tree appears which wasn't there before. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Freddy is pushing down on the weight Debbie is holding, in one shot Debbie is holding the middle of the weight with both hands, then when the shot changes she is holding the weight with one hand either side. Submitted by Hamster
Continuity: When Alice is in the cinema she has a drink of coke. The Coke has a plastic lid on it. But when Alice turns around to investigate the strong winds, there is no plastic lid on the Coke. Then in the next shot the plastic lid is back on it. Submitted by Hamster
