Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Continuity mistake: During the very last scene with all of the Freelings, Taylor and Tangina, right after Taylor leaves alone in the Freelings' car and the Freelings start walking down the street, the camera pans back so you can see the whole neighborhood including where they were just standing. Where did Tangina go?

princesskelli

Revealing mistake: It is obvious a dummy was used when Steve is thrown from his easy chair into the kitchen cabinet.

Continuity mistake: After the father drinks the 'devil' thing in his bottle of wine, he heads to the bathroom where the mother and Carol Anne have just had a bath and hairwash. When the mother realises there's something not right with the father, she sends Carol Anne - with soaking wet hair - out of the bathroom. As the father starts getting aggressive and saying hurtful things about Carol Anne, she comes to the bathroom door looking really upset - and her hair is bone dry.

Continuity mistake: When the family escapes from the garage after the chainsaw has cut up the car and left a huge scratch in the windscreen, we get a front view as they drive and talk. The screen is clear; no scratch.

Continuity mistake: As the Freelings drive to Cuesta Verde, the wagon is awfully quiet, especially after the chainsaw cut through the roof.

Continuity mistake: Look at Robbie's baseball bat when he is sitting on the couch. You can see the positions don't match from one shot to another.

Continuity mistake: When the slug moves around the parents' bedroom it leaves no slime trail. However, right after it exits, Steve opens the door and reveals a huge puddle of slime on the floor and a trail of slime along the corridor.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the parents discover Robbie attacked by the braces, his head is covered in metal twine. A frame later a big hole around his eye has appeared.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie starts there is a rock half a meter away from Taylor. When he stands up the rock is 10 meters behind.

Sacha

Visible crew/equipment: Before the slug crawls out of the room, the crew member shaking the bed is noticeable on the left side of the screen. (01:07:25)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the leak falls on the toy phone there's a close-up of Carol Ann's feet surrounded by a bunch of toys. When the angle changes half of the toys are gone.

Sacha

Other mistake: Taylor parks his car in Cuesta Verde, next to a couple of crates next to the pilot's door. He steps down and walks straight without looking down, which is impossible for he should have tripped.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the slug grins at the parents, his face becomes slimier and with two long dripping bits of slime by his mouth.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the slugs trip the bed over, the covers are either on or off, and the blue mattress underneath is visible or not depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After the slug leaves the bedroom, Steve's t-shirt turns from clean to very dirty between one frame and another.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the movie starts there is a rock half a meter away from Taylor. When he stands up the rock is 10 meters behind.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Diane comforts Steve after vomiting the slug, her position to the couch keeps changing between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie when Taylor goes down into the hole where the house was he wades through water almost up to his neck. When he returns to the ladder, his shirt is only damp in spots and only slightly above the waist. His jeans do not appear wet at all.

lizbeth1fl

Continuity mistake: During the leak scene, the toy phone cord swaps from being shaped like a number 8, to shaped like a loop between the first and second shot.

Sacha

Kane: You're all gonna die in there! All of you! You are gonna die.

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Trivia: Unbeknownst to the cast and crew, several of the skeletons ordered for the production were real human skeletons (as opposed to replicas). When this was discovered, some crew and cast members demanded an exorcism or cleansing be performed on set, as they had already been feeling uneasy on-set before learning this, and felt the real skeletons may have brought some unwanted spirits to the set. Co-star Will Sampson, who like his character was a real-life shaman, offered to return to set one night after everyone else went home in order to perform an exorcism ritual. Reportedly, the mood and feeling on set greatly improved afterwards.

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Answer: According to IMDb, a scene was scripted, but never filmed, explaining that she was away at college. The actual reason for her absence was because Dominique Dunne, the actress who played Dana in the first film, was murdered by her boyfriend shortly after the theatrical release of the first film.

zendaddy621

Ironically, the young actress who played the youngest daughter, Carol Anne, died just a few years later (from natural causes).

raywest

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