Best mystery movie audio problems of all time

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Dragonfly picture

Audio problem: When Costner finds his baby, The native lady hands it to him - you can hear the baby cooing happily, but if you look closely at the baby's face you will see that she is crying.

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Dude, Where's My Car? picture

Audio problem: When the duo enter the Kitty Kat Club, a dancer shouts ''Look everyone. It's Mr. Jesse and Mr. Chester.'' It sounds like she is talking from a loudspeaker, when in fact, she is just talking.

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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning picture

Audio problem: When Junior is riding his motorbike around, screaming "they hurt me, ma," in many wideshots we hear him yell but his mouth is closed. (00:55:20)

Hamster

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Audio problem: In the dream-café Cobb talks to Ariadne right before telling her that it's all a dream, but from a side angle the mouth doesn't match the sound coming out, which obviously belongs to the front angles.

Sacha

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The Illusionist picture

Audio problem: When the ghost boy walks up from the audience, you can hear the steps creak as he walks up.

Swarlie

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Strange Days picture

Audio problem: When Lenny, Masey and Max have found Tic "cooked off" in his van, Masey and Max are having a discussion and there is a shot of Lenny in the van, trying to make Tic more comfortable. Behind him, you can see Masey and she is obviously talking, but unfortunately, it is Max we can hear in voiceover.

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The Howling picture

Audio problem: When Eddie is talking to Karen in the pornography booth, while the film is playing, what he is saying frequently mismatches his mouth movements. (00:10:05)

Hamster

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home picture

Audio problem: When Gilliam slams on the brakes, the tires make a screeching sound, but the wheels come rolling to a stop, ergo do not skid. (00:56:50)

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Chinatown picture

Audio problem: Evelyn Mulwray and Jake take a look around the Mar Vista rest home and the woman playing the piano is an obvious over-dub as her hands do not move in sync with what we hear. (01:16:55)

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The Invisible picture

Audio problem: Justin Chatwin's character wants to kill himself. He grabs a breakaway double-barrel shotgun off the gun rack and steps around the corner. Then we hear a round chambered in a pump shotgun. (00:43:40)

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Audio problem: When Langdon removes the clue from the Cryptex box lid and takes it to a mirror, Teabing says "Backwards, in the style of Leonardo himself" without his mouth moving. Although much of the shot is shown over Teabing's shoulder, his mouth is visible at the beginning of the shot, and his jaw does not move throughout the rest of the sentence. (01:27:45)

eldeem

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Blue Velvet picture

Audio problem: The second time Jeffrey visits his father in hospital, there's the whooshing sound of a respirator, but the father isn't on a respirator and he's in a single room, so there's no need for a respirator, or the noise of one.

kh1616

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Audio problem: In the beginning when Holmes "shoots" the dog, Gladstone, with a dart and Watson says "What have you done to Gladstone now?", look closely and Watson's mouth doesn't move.

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The Ghost Writer picture

Audio problem: When the news helicopter descends on the house as the news of the ICC trial breaks on the TV, the helicopter rotor makes no sound or almost no sound until the shot changes to see it, despite it being very loud once it is visible. The sound of its blades also fades very quickly as it leaves, despite any pilot presumably being very careful so close to a building.

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Psycho III picture

Audio problem: In the scene after Norman goes for a late-night swim, when he's telling Maureen that he slipped in the mud, you can see that his mouth never moves, yet he speaks the words "I slipped in the mud."

Clerk13

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The Girl Who Played With Fire picture

Audio problem: DVD version. In the scene where Lisbeth is about to be buried alive, she gets shot three times by her father as she tries to run away. The sound effect of the gunfire includes the tinkling of a spent cartridge hitting the ground (clearly heard in the rear right). However, the father's gun is seen to be a revolver, which does not eject spent casings when fired - the spent casings stay in the cylinder. (01:50:30)

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Dogma picture

Audio problem: When the car breaks down, Bethany slams the car's seat back to its upright position. Cut to the frontal shot and you can hear the click of the car seat as it goes backwards, even though you could hear and see the seat being put back.

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Paycheck picture

Audio problem: When Jennings finally reaches the machine and tries to see his future, before fixing it, we see him activating the machine. There are seven clicks as he flips on the switches at his right hand, however, there are only six switches.

Garlonuss

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A Cat in Paris picture

Audio problem: When Niko is going to get the key for somewhere for Zoe to hide and then Zoe disappears he says "Zoe"? When he says it his mouth does not move but once he finishes saying it that's when his mouth moves.

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