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Poltergeist (1982) - 72 mistakes

starring Beatrice Straight, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunne, JoBeth Williams, Oliver Robins (add more)

Genres: Horror, Thriller

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Continuity: The night after burying the bird, Robbie's hat is not tucked in, however a frame later it's totally tucked in.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Diane and Steve go to their neighbor's house after the scene of the chair sliding across the floor, there's a flash of lightning that reveals a shadow of a fan that's blowing on the actors on the left side of the house.

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Continuity: When the mother falls into the muddy swimming pool, and the bodies are popping out from the ground,she was drenched and covered in mud. By the time she runs upstairs, she is almost completely dry and there is very little mud on her.

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Continuity: Just after the dad pulls the boy out of the tree, they all go looking for the little girl. Watch the amount of mud on the boy. By the time he wanders in front of the TV, the mud on him increases. For that matter, the mom wanders in with more mud on her too.

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Continuity: When Diane is about to dye her hair, the shampoo bottle changes positions between shots.

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Other: In the opening sequence, when Dana is in bed and hears Carol Anne say, "Hello, I can't hear you", for some reason there is an artificial leg lying across Dana's bed.

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Continuity: The back window of Robbie's cab goes from being up to halfway down from shot to shot.

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Continuity: When Diane and Carol Anne are lying in the bathtub towards the end, Carol Anne's hair and hand position change drastically between the wide shot and the closeup.

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Revealing: Right after JoBeth Williams and Craig T Nelson joke with Dr. Lesh about not showing the tapes of their haunting on "60 Minutes" or "That's Incredible", JoBeth walks to the table with Dr. Lesh's flask in her hand. As she walks from the sink, there's a silver cap on it. When she gets to the table, the cap is gone. She couldn't have removed it out of sight, she had a coffee cup in her other hand.

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Continuity: As the Freeling family is escaping through the side of their house, you will notice that Diane is holding a doll that looks like Carol Anne.

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Continuity: Just before the house starts to implode, Teague is backing away from it and as he does so, he passes a couple of white garbage bags on the sidewalk and backs into the street. In the next shot, taken from across the street showing bystanders being blown backwards, Teague is visible in the background; he's back on the sidewalk tripping backwards over the same bags he safely passed moments before.

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Continuity: The piece of licorice that Carol Anne puts into the cigar box with the dead parakeet "for when he's hungry" appears to be close to 6 inches long when she's placing it in the box but no more than a couple of inches long when it's shown in the box a few moments later.

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