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Trivia: Near the end of the film, as Dani is lifted and being carried to the dinner table, if you look closely, you can see the ghostly image of her deceased sister's face (with the exhaust hose in her mouth) in the background. It's been superimposed over the trees in the distance. It's very subtle and easy to miss, but if you know where to look, it's there.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the Hargas begin taking the bodies to the temple, the scene begins with a shot of Pelle rolling Connie's body in a wheel barrow, before the camera slowly pans around to reveal other Hargas doing the same thing. Once the camera stops panning around, the dolly track can be seen to the left-hand side of the shot. (02:37:30)

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Continuity mistake: The morning after Josh and Mark are killed, when they are sitting at the dinner table, a Hårga tells everyone that the Rubi Radr was found missing. Pelle's left hand is raised when the man says this, but when the shot cuts, it's on the table. (01:55:35)

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Continuity mistake: When the female Hårgas are consoling Dani after she sees Christian having sex with Maja and they begin crying in unison, Dani's hair is tied back, but when it cuts to a different angle, a few strands of hair are suddenly hanging over the side of her head. (02:27:55)

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Continuity mistake: After the male elder jumps off the cliff, there is a string used to tie his collar shown on his clothes when he is on the ground. The string is on the right side of his chest when he lands, but when his head gets smashed with a mallet seconds later, the string is on the left side of his chest. (01:11:40 - 01:12:35)

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Continuity mistake: When the male elder is lying on the ground after jumping off the cliff, there is nothing on the ground around his head. When he realises that his leg has broken off and the Hårgas start wailing, there is an additional shot included in the Director's Cut where a rock has suddenly appeared beside the man's head. (Director's Cut). (01:11:40)

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Continuity mistake: When the male elder steps onto the edge of the cliff before jumping, there is a a shot of Dani, Christian and Josh where their shadows are behind them. It then cuts to the elder for a few seconds, but when it cuts back, their shadows are in front of them. (01:11:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Dani is looking at Simon and Connie complaining to Ingemar after the female elder jumps off the cliff and they turn back to face towards it, Christian says "Oh my God" realising the male elder is about to jump off. At this moment, he has his left hand over his mouth and his right hand by his side. The shot then cuts and Christian now has his right hand over his mouth and his left hand on his chest. (01:10:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Pelle is explaining how the Hårgas roles work depending on their age, as he says "And finally from 54 to 72, you become a mentor", Christian is behind Pelle facing towards him. The shot changes angles, Christian's body is in a different direction and then turns his head to face Pelle. The shot changes angles again and Christian is now suddenly looking upwards. (00:53:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the first meal scene, when Josh asks Pelle for a translation of what the Hårga was singing and Christian asks for one as well, Dani is shown eating out of a bowl and holding a fork, then lowers the bowl and fork as Christian says "Yeah, thanks. That would be amazing." It then cuts to a different angle, where Dani suddenly has food on the fork and the bowl is raised again. (Director's Cut). (00:47:25)

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Continuity mistake: When the group are in the car driving through Sweden, after Mark asks what is it that makes the women hotter, it cuts to Dani and Christian is shown sitting next to her. His arm is positioned so that his wrist is touching her shoulder. The camera changes angles and his arm is suddenly pulled away from her. (00:25:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Dani and Christian are at her apartment after returning from the party, Christian sits down on the couch with her and places his hand on his head in a position where his knuckle is touching his head. It then cuts to Christian saying "It's fine", and it is now his fingers touching his head. (Director's Cut). (00:18:40)

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Continuity mistake: At the party, when talking about the trip to Sweden, just after Mark says Pelle's invited them to an authentic hippie midsummer at his yodelling farm, it cuts to Dani asking "Oh, yeah." To the right of shot, Mark is shown holding a bottle with part of the label slightly uncovered, while the rest is covered by his hand. Two shots after, in a shot of the whole group, Mark's hand is now entirely covering the label. (00:14:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the male elder fails to die after jumping off the cliff, a few of the Hårgas walk over to him to smash his head with a mallet. When the first Hårga hits him on the head, there is a visible bloody injury caused by the hit. When the second Hårga goes to hit him, just before his head breaks apart there is no sign of the first hit. (01:12:30)

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Trivia: During the feast in which Christian finds a pubic hair inside of his food, look closely at the drinks on the table. While the camera never calls direct attention to this, if you look closely, Christian's drink is very slightly darker than everyone else's. Earlier in the film, the camera briefly passes over a mural that depicts a woman collecting menstrual blood in a cup. (Along with the image of a woman cutting off pubic hairs, like the one Christian found in his food.) It seems Christian's drink has been laced with something he didn't expect.

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Question: Spoilers: When Simon's corpse is discovered flayed apart and hanging, it looked like some of the organs suspended above him (possibly his lungs?) were still moving a bit. Was he still alive at that moment?

TedStixon

Answer: Yes, that is the impression that is given. He is still alive.

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How would they be able to keep him from bleeding to death? We see earlier in the film when they kill Josh that someone was wearing Mark's skin. That means they completely flayed him and then crudely reattached his skin in order to hang him from the ceiling later on.

Phaneron

Never mind, I see that I was confusing Simon with Mark. It looked like Mark hanging to me when Christian found Simon.

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