Plot hole: After Max and Allison rescue Dani from the witches, Max is driving his parents' car. Winifred flies up along side of them and asks Max to show her his driver's permit. How would she know about driving permits, since she's been dead for 300 years?
Suggested correction: There is a lot the movie doesn't show us about who they've passed and what they heard all evening. One example being we don't know everything the bus driver said to them. It's perfectly reasonable they heard somebody make reference to a driver's permit and the movie did not show us this conversation deeming it invalid to the plot.
Factual error: When the witches follow Mary into the alley after singing I Put A Spell On You, Mary Sanderson said she smelled Scrod, a bottom feeder that would be good with margarine. 300 years prior to that, butter would be the topping of choice as margarine hadn't been invented until the 1800s, when the sisters were dead.
Suggested correction: She doesn't say margarine. She says marjoram, which is a herb.
The official subtitles on a retail copy of the movie says "margarine."
I agree she did say margarine; though it should be pointed out a subtitle should never be used as confirmation to what a line is saying. Just about every movie has incorrect subtitles at some point as the script is not used to create the subtitles. It is determined by watching and going off the audio ridiculous as it is.
The mistake is correct. She does say margarine, not marjoram. She even follows this up with "Or oil. Olive oil works", so she's talking about cooking with some sort of fat, not an herb.
Suggested correction: Mary watched 10-30 minutes of television commercials at "The Master's" house earlier in the evening, so she could have learned about it from TV.
I half agree. Even witches can learn anything from TV. But some how they would have put something in the script to say that.
Continuity mistake: Sarah eats the spider when the witches are hiding behind the sign, and we can see her hands are empty, but when the three women approach the house, she stuffs the spider in her mouth again.
Suggested correction: I always thought she ate half the spider, held onto the other half, then ate the rest of it. With the angle and size of the spider; it doesn't appear to confirm she ate the entire spider initially.
Continuity mistake: After the kids talk to the fake cop about the Sanderson sisters, and the fake cop sends them on their way, he gets on his bike with his girlfriend, you hear the bike start before he turns the key.
Suggested correction: That model of motorcycle was a kick-start, it didn't have a key. He was turning on his headlight after he started the bike.
Other mistake: When Sara lures Emily to the Sanderson house with her song, Emily is laughing and running even as she enters the house. Later in the movie when Sara lures the town's children to the Sanderson house with her song, they were all in a hypnotic sleepwalking state.
Suggested correction: The difference is that Sarah was interacting and playing directly with Emily whereas she only cast the spell over the other kids from high above.
