Corrected entry: Despite seeing the man being hit and rolling over the windshield and over the top of the car (hence Ryan Phillippe being splattered with blood), they find the body a considerable distance IN FRONT of the car. Hmm.
Corrected entry: Also, during the 4th of July festivities, multiple fisherman were mistaken for the killer. This was because they were wearing full raincoats and rain hats. The 4th of July in the Carolinas is too hot, (way too hot) to be wearing winter foul weather gear.
Correction: This is the people's own decision - if they want to wear this clothing, they can. Plus most of it is fishing / working clothing.
It is fishing clothing in a fishing community, sure, but as the OP said, we're talking about several people going out in the summer sun with full raincoats and rain hats. It is a choice, sure, but of the movie, designed merely to artificially increase the suspenseful moments with fake appearances of the killer, not a plausible choice for people, multiple even! It's factual that it is illogical to the point of ridiculous. I'd move it to the Stupidity section. Even the sequels don't do this.
Corrected entry: The girl is coming back from an entire year away at school and she has one small duffel bag full of stuff. Yeah right.
Corrected entry: Sarah Michelle Gellar's character doesn't know her way around her own place of work, which is evident when she's being chased by the bad guys and gets cornered in a room where she's forced to jump out the window.
Correction: She knows that the only two exterior doors are locked - there is nowhere else to go.
Corrected entry: When Barry (Ryan Phillippe) gets hit by the car after the gym scene, you see him lying on the floor with a bit of wood on his shoulder/body. In the close-up shot, the wood has gone.
Correction: There is no wood on him in either shot.
Absolutely wrong correction. There most definitely is wood across his upper body in the shot of the impact, not even a small bit, but a long thin beam, probably from the width of the booth he crashed into. You can't miss it when you watch the scene. And it is gone in close-up. This should be reinstated.
Corrected entry: When Sarah Michelle Gellar is chased by the killer, she runs to her work. When she reaches the door, you see a shot of the killer not more than 5 meters away. How could the girl that opens the door not see him?
Correction: Elsa doesn't see him because she isn't looking out of the window; first she is fumbling with the keys and then she is looking at Helen screaming about being attacked.
Technically true, when you look at her line of sight, both the actress and the editing are pretty good at avoiding her making direct eye contact with the part of the street behind Helen when she approaches. However, they do show the killer walking in the fully lit part of the street, and the POV shot is at the very least misleading in how close it gets to Sarah Michelle Gellar. He gets to be not even 5 meters away; looks like less than 2. And then he'd teleport away where? Admitting he can get that close (huge stretch!), how does he get away?
Correction: The car spins and turns 180 degrees before stopping.
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