Best horror movie continuity mistakes of 2009

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The Descent: Part 2 picture

Continuity mistake: After Sarah and Rios come out from the flooded cave, their clothes are bone dry even though there were almost fully submerged underwater. (01:01:25)

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon picture

Continuity mistake: During the paper cut scene, when Bella is thrown against the table, there are 5 vases of flowers and 3 sets of candles. After she hits the table she lands against one of the vases and knocks the 2nd one to the floor, but the next shot shows only one vase left upright. (00:14:50)

stareide

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The Unborn picture The Unborn mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Romey hits the little boy, she immediately parks her car and gets out. She closes the door behind her and runs to the little boy. After making sure he is ok, she goes back to her car and the door is open.

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The Uninvited picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see Anna's mom, the bell is on her left hand. But in the scene where Anna is down in the beach house at night and sees her dead mother, the bell changes to her right hand.

juiicyyxo

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Continuity mistake: At Susie's locker, when Ray first approaches her, she is startled and closes her locker door almost completely, but not quite. In the next shot, the door is completely shut without her having touched it.

MovieFan612

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Case 39 picture

Continuity mistake: After Emily burns her home it's night time, then she follows the police cars and it seems like evening, and when she comes out from the water the sun shines in the background.

ozwal13

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Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead picture

Continuity mistake: The guard rail disappears when the camera cuts then is back again before the bus goes off the road.

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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans picture

Continuity mistake: Near the start, after Lucian saves Sonja from the werewolves. Before Sonja throws Lucian the the sword, Viktor and his guards are walking around the corner next to the ladder. When she throws it they disappear, when Lucian catches it they reappear. (00:06:30)

Ursus Maritimus

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The Fourth Kind picture

Continuity mistake: During the sheriff interview scene with Abbey, the time is listed as 3:45am, but later in the scene, the clock reads 2:15am.

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Orphan picture

Continuity mistake: After Esther suffocates Daniel in the hospital, Kate slaps Esther in the face. The hospital staff then hold down Kate and she drops her iPhone, screen down. The iPhone starts ringing, even though the screen is facing the floor. In the next scene, it is still ringing, but with the screen facing upwards.

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Halloween 2 picture

Continuity mistake: In the beginning Laurie's bandage goes from bloody to white and back again repeatedly. It also gets wet, yet not even 15 seconds later it's completely dry and white.

JaredRobertSharp

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The Human Centipede picture

Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie, the doctor invites the two girls knocking on his door inside out of the rain because their car broke down. He gives them both water (laced with drugs). One of the girls knocks her glass over, spilling most of the water, which can be seen as the glass sits on the table. Then when the doctor leaves the room, while the two girls are talking, you can see that the glass on the table magically is filled again.

acmorwin

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Zombieland picture

Continuity mistake: When Columbus brushes Wichita's hair behind her ear and kisses her, he leaves his hand behind her ear. Her hair changes position between shots; in some it is all behind her ear, in some it is over Columbus' hand, and in others it is half and half.

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The Final Destination picture

Continuity mistake: During the pool sequence, we see a few shots of the pressure gauge, some close-up, some wider. In some some shots the scale goes up to 160, in others it only goes to 100.

Jon Sandys

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Suggested correction: It's two totally different gauges in two different places.

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Continuity mistake: When Ben is driving the car away from the store where they buy the comping supplies, the headrest in the car is missing, but it reappears in the next scene.

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Continuity mistake: At 1:02:38, you see that the front door is closed. The scene after, when Lionel goes out of the water tank where they were hiding, the same door is now wide open. Then a bat scares him, and you see that the door magically closed back. (01:02:35)

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My Bloody Valentine picture My Bloody Valentine mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The miner wounds Sarah's right forearm during the supermarket chase and the medic bandages it up. Yet, in all subsequent scenes, her arm is fine.

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Sorority Row picture Sorority Row mistake picture

Continuity mistake: After Megan dies, for real, Jessica tells the others that they loved Megan and Megan loved them. Her robe opens and closes between alternate shots.

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