Hamster

28th Dec 2004

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Corrected entry: The scene where Shannon Elizabeth is looking in the mirror in the bathroom, it shows the walls covered in blood but not the mirror.

Correction: In the overhead shot as she opens the shower-curtains, it seems like blood is on the mirror, but it's actually the reflection of the sink, with the blood splattered around the basin. Therefore blood is never on the mirror, only the walls, floors, bathtub etc.

24th Nov 2002

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Corrected entry: In the end of the movie Arthur is looking at all the ghosts standing in the circle. The shot shows clearly that he has a line of blood down his chin. Then in the next scene the middle part of his chin has no blood.

Correction: Part of the line of blood was wiped away.

19th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: After Dr Marrow tells Nell that he didn't call her, she turns around and looks at the house, and almost all the lights turn on. the problem is that with the lights all turned on, you should be able to see something inside, even the curtains, at least, whereas you only see the windows light up.

Correction: Not necessarily, plus all the curtains hanging in the window were those long white lace ones, so they wouldn't silhouette against the light.

5th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The long piece of wood laying on the painting which nell uses to whack the huge statue disappears randomly.

Correction: I watched this scene and the piece of wood is there throughout.

19th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: Eleanor tells Theo, Dr Marrow and Luke that they have to leave the house, and they start running through the hallway. At some point of the race, the hallway is no longer the nursery room's but the hallway in front of Nell and Theo's room, which was on the other side of the house.

Correction: It is very clear that the shots of them running down the halls/stairs are not meant to be consecutive.

19th Oct 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Luke rushes to Theo's room to help them as they scream, Theo turns the lights on before she opens the door. However when they move to the bathroom to open Nell's door, there's no sign of Theo's bedroom lights.

Correction: As they are running over to the bathroom doors, the shot is from behind, so no light would have been visible. In the next frontal shot, you can see in the far background that the lights are still on.

7th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The curtains of Nell's room clearly aren't long enough to be over the bed as shown at the first night.

Correction: From this shot there is no way of telling if the curtains are or are not long enough; they look plenty long enough to me, and remember, this house is haunted, and the spirit of the child in the curtain could have easily changed the curtain in length in order to be able to transport itself onto Nell's bed.

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: While putting plastic on the window, we see some leaves outside that move away with the wind. That wouldn't be possible because the wind is coming from the opposite direction.

Correction: There's nothing which indicates what direction the wind is travelling, plus wind can travel in all directions, even circles.

23rd Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: A crewman dressed in black is seen outside the window when Luke and Dr Marrow try to destroy the dining room's windows.

Correction: There is definitely nobody outside dressed in black. I've checked this, and there is nobody outside.

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Mrs Dudley first introduces Nell to her room, they get in through a door with a statue in front of it, coming from a long hallway. Later when they come to save Nell in the room they try to open the same door, but coming from an enormous hall.

Correction: This is because they are not entering through the same door, but are using the other one which connects to the bathroom.

11th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The clouds on the sky change between shots when Nell gets to the house.

Correction: In one brief low shot, you can see the clouds moving very fast (due to the wind, I suspect), therefore this clarifies why the clouds change from shot to shot.

19th Oct 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Theo, Marrow and Luke go to the Nursery room looking for Nell, the statue in the hallway follows them with its eyes.

Correction: I've looked over and over for this statue, but none move their eyes.

27th Aug 2001

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The scene where the others really do see something supernatural for the first time, they barely react: there are hands coming out of the evil former house-owner's huge head above the haunted girl's bed. But as it is computer graphics added after the scene was shot, the others, coming to help the girl, do not even seem to notice the head.

Correction: This is a very weak 'mistake' indeed. First off the others are more interested in rescuing Nell from the bed. But as they do, they scream fearfully and look pretty frightened.

4th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: Notice as Theo climbs the stairwell, boots can briefly be seen on her feet, although she's supposed to be barefoot.

Correction: This is actually wrong. I slowed the whole scene down, and she is definitely barefoot throughout. What makes it seem like she has boots on is the iron woven stairwell, which is painted black, which makes her feet seem darker in colour.

19th Oct 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The amount of broken glass that comes out of the window is incomparably more than the actual hole.

Correction: Yes, but this is deliberately emphasised - Hugh Kane's spirit is visible in the window when Nell smashes it, and then the glass which flies out is from him, not from the actual window - remember that this is a haunted house, and Kane controls it. As this has been mentioned before, "how do we know this glass isn't a ghostly illusion? Seems all that glass was gone when everyone else gets to the room."

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected 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.

Correction: 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.

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The papers that Nell fills out are done with a marker, however we see her using a pencil.

Correction: 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.

22nd Oct 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected 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.

Correction: 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.

10th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected 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.

Correction: 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.

11th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: Nell's facial expression changes between front and side shots, when the spirits are moving her hair.

Correction: No it doesn't.

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