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The Elder: The people we don't want here are leaving! Force them to stay!

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Continuity mistake: When Spud is shown tripping over the chair knocked over by Johnny at the end of the film, his feet are shown clear of it. When the shot changes as his men arrive to help him up, his feet are suddenly completely entangled within the framework.

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Factual error: In the scenes set during 1918, Clive is shown wearing a typical late 1930s/WW2 military production British steel helmet with its distinctive canvas covered sprung chinstrap.

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Factual error: Although set in 1860, virtually all the costumes/clothing in the film are far more typical of the later Victorian period. For example, the police are wearing cork helmets, tunics, and Duty Armlets with upright stripes. These items were not introduced into the Metropolitan Police until 1863, 1864, and 1886 respectively (and this would have been delayed further in a small backwater Cornish town). In 1860, they would be wearing top hats, swallow-tail coats, and Duty Armlets with horizontal stripes.

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Revealing mistake: One of the burning zombies at the very end of the film is wearing the most terrible and obvious fire-proof mask and hair-piece, made all the more noticeable by being used so prominently in front of the camera several times.

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Continuity mistake: The Squire's main henchman, Denver, ends up being pushed into a fire before being stabbed to death by Sir James. When Denver is first shown falling into the fire, he goes down face-first, with his left arm catching fire. The shot changes, and then suddenly he is face-up, and it is his right arm that is on fire.

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Revealing mistake: When Sir James breaks into the house of Squire Hamilton, we are shown a long shot of the tin mine underground with the zombies being whipped by the Squire's men. Watch the back of the shot - several blows from one man hit a couple of the wooden props supposedly supporting the roof, which obviously wobble about and show they are just for decoration rather than any practical purpose.

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Continuity mistake: Squire Hamilton and his men make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve the zombified Alice. When Sir James and Dr Tompson return to her lying in the now open grave, a longer shot shows her already wearing her grey zombie makeup. When it changes to the close-up of her face, she appears normal again but is then shown changing into her grey zombie appearance before rising from the grave in an obvious continuation of the original longer shot of her in the open grave.

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Revealing mistake: The zombie of John Martinus throws the lifeless body of Alice from the tin mine pit head onto the ground. When Sylvia examines the body after, Alice very obviously blinks. Visible at normal speed, but easier to see slowed down.

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Continuity mistake: When Squire Hamilton causes Sylvia to cut her hand on broken glass, the amount she is shown to bleed is realistically very small. When he transfers it almost immediately into another glass container, it is suddenly and unrealistically a much larger amount.

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Other mistake: When Sir James examines a book on witchcraft in the Vicar's library, it is a photographic reprint (more contemporary to 1966) of a much older, original book.

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Continuity mistake: As Alice discusses Squire Hamilton at the Tompson house, we see Sylvia putting away some of her clothes into a wardrobe. She puts a large dress onto a hanger, and inside, which immediately disappears when the shot changes. She then puts another smaller item onto a hanger and inside, and when the shot changes, she can be seen putting the same item into the wardrobe again.

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Continuity mistake: When Sir James and Sylvia arrive by coach at the Tompson home, the driver carries their baggage to the door. He is played by a younger actor with darker hair initially, but when the shot changes to the door of the house, he is suddenly being played by a noticeably older actor with grey hair yet wearing the same clothes and still carrying the same bags.

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Factual error: The film begins in 1860, but the majority takes place 20 years later, so 1880. When James Rankin obtains files on the Haymarket Strangler/Edward Styles case we are shown another box labelled with details about Jack the Ripper, who wasn't active until 1888.

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Factual error: In 1915 Tolkien was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Lancashire Fusiliers. He (plus various other officers) is constantly shown in the film wearing bright metal cap badge, collar badges and shoulder titles on his Service Dress tunic and greatcoat. However, in the Lancashire Fusiliers officers did not wear shoulder titles on their SD tunics/greatcoats, and their cap/collar badges would have been in a darkened bronze finish, not bright metal (which was for Other Ranks and NCO's).

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Factual error: At the end of the film, Hellfire Jack returns the toy soldier to the son of the late William Hawkins in 1917. Hawkins son is shown taking it upstairs and placing it in front of a photo of his father, in between two medals. These are the British War and Victory Medals - these did not exist until 1919, and in most cases were not even issued until the 1920's.

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Factual error: The plane used in the film to take Juliet back to London towards the end of the film is a replica of a Dakota C-47. She is painted with black and white "invasion stripes" on both the upper and lower surfaces of the wings - approved in May these were only widely put into use for D-Day in June 1944. After one month the upper surface stripes were ordered removed, and by the end of 1944 they were ordered completely removed. By 1946 when the film is set they would have been long gone from any serving aircraft still flying.

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Factual error: There are a number of historical inaccuracies with the police uniforms used. The film is set in 1880, but the Duty Armlets with the alternating short blue/white vertical stripes were not introduced until 1886 (in 1880 they would have had three horizontal white stripes separated by two narrower blue stripes). Whistles are shown being carried, but they were not introduced until 1885 (they used rattles before then). The helmet plates have a generic VR on them when they should repeat the officer's collar number (eg P 129 in the case of Constable Flood).

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Factual error: The film is set in the 1920's. When the policeman appears towards the end of the film on his helmet is a post-1952 helmet plate with the crown of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Factual error: Throughout the film, the helmet plates worn by the London Policemen are the 1930's pattern with the George V cypher in the centre. In 1912/13 they would have repeated the officer's collar number in the centre. The helmets themselves are also British military pattern blue cloth helmets with Police fittings added, rather than the correct Police pattern ones.

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