TedStixon

3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Revealing mistake: When Chucky is walking behind Tony Gardner as he's removing Tiffany's back in the VFX room, you can tell Chucky has been composited into the scene poorly. Watch his feet, and you can sort-of see that he has a slightly "wobble/slide" to his movement where the blending of the two shots didn't quite work. The lighting on Chucky also doesn't quite match the background.

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Visible crew/equipment: When Glen approaches the animatronics of Chucky and Tiffany in the FX room, you can see a bounce card reflected in Glen's eyes. Given he's facing a wall, there's nothing else that could cause such a reflection in his eyes.

TedStixon

3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Jennifer is auditioning for Redman, when Redman says he's going to go with his first choice, Jennifer's hand goes from up under her chin to down by her side between cuts.

TedStixon

3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Visible crew/equipment: As Glen escapes on the truck, when he turns to camera, you can see a very, very obvious reflection of a bounce-card on his eyes. (There's absolutely nothing else that could possibly be creating such a consistent reflection given he's on a moving vehicle.)

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Visible crew/equipment: When Psychs is threatening Glen with the rat, you can pretty see a reflection of set lights and bounce cards in both Psych's and especially Glen's eyes during their closeups.

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Tony Gardner is checking the Tiffany doll (right before it grabs his crotch), he puts both knees on the ground right before the shot ends. In the next shot, only one of his knees is on the ground.

TedStixon

3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Glen has his first voiceover at the ventriloquist show, when he says, "I'm not like that at all," there's a small hair stuck to his face near his left eye. It disappears in the very next shot where you see him.

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Continuity mistake: When Psychs the ventriloquist goes on stage, in the first shot, he doesn't have a cigarette in his mouth. In the next shot, one appears in his mouth. He has his arm extended in both shots, so while he is briefly off camera for about one second, he wouldn't have time to put the cigarette in his mouth, then re-extend it between takes.

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Revealing mistake: When Glen enters the child's room in the dream sequence, look out the window behind the rocking horse. There's an odd, unnatural stream of water firing diagonally among all the rain. (Likely some sort of flub with whatever sprinkler system they're using to create the rain on the windows.)

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Factual error: When Glen kills the mother in the dream sequence, you can pretty see the mother's pulse in her neck still, even though she's supposed to be dead.

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3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Revealing mistake: When the mother slips and falls out of the bathtub, there's a very clear jump-cut while the camera is facing the side of the bathtub. Instantly between cuts, the pattern of the water droplets changes, even though it's supposed to all be one continuous, unbroken shot. This reveals that it was pieced together from multiple different takes.

TedStixon

3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Revealing mistake: When the father gets stabbed in the dream sequence and falls over the railing, you can tell there are multiple jump-cuts in the shot, even though it's meant to be one continuous, unbroken shot. It's especially noticeable when he lands, and several broken pieces of wood simply "appear" around him between frames.

TedStixon

3rd Feb 2024

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Other mistake: During the opening dream sequence, as Glen begins to walk through the house, you hear it raining outside and can see rain outside the windows, except the front door windows, which show absolutely no rain whatsoever.

TedStixon

28th Jan 2024

Chucky (2021)

Death by Misadventure - S1-E1

Trivia: During the first major scene at the yard-sale after the cold open, a woman in a red coat can briefly be seen wandering around in the background, but her face is never seen. This is actually a subtle easter-egg. The woman is meant to be Tiffany, with the implication that she had something to do with planting Chucky at the yard sale.

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Trivia: Tom Hanks was reportedly quite frightened when the film came out, as he feared it would eventually lead to real actors being put out of work. Ironically enough, he later starred in a similarly "photorealistic" animated film with "The Polar Express".

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Trivia: Reportedly, Matt Dillon was considered for the lead part but left the project early in production after seeing test footage, fearing that Square was trying to "replace" human actors.

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Trivia: Early in production, Ryan Whitaker was meant to have a robotic arm as a nod to the character Barrett Wallace from the video game "Final Fantasy VII", who has a gun for an arm, but this idea was dropped.

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Trivia: The first major animated feature film that attempted to create "photorealistic" characters. The studio had the intention of reusing the character models in different films as "digital actors," where they could "play" different parts like a real actor. However, the film underperformed at the box office and this idea was quietly dropped.

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15th Jan 2024

The Elephant Man (1980)

Trivia: The only David Lynch project that Jack Nance did not participate in before his death in 1996. (While Nance did not appear in the theatrical cut of "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," he did film scenes that were deleted for pacing, but later released on home video.)

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15th Jan 2024

The Elephant Man (1980)

Trivia: When David Lynch was about to be hired to direct the film, he was informed that Mel Brooks was watching his first film, "Eraserhead," to get an idea of his style. Lynch immediately was crestfallen, as he was sure he'd lose the job when Brooks saw how dark and bizarre that film was. To the contrary, Brooks burst into the room the instant "Eraserhead" was finished, shook Lynch's hand and told him that he loved it and that he was excited for Lynch to direct "The Elephant Man."

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