Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Michelle thinks she is being attacked, she grabs the phone and throws it through the window, and it smashes out all of the glass. Yet as she climbs out, there is an amount of glass which has reappeared in the side ledge. (00:06:45)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie Natalie finds Brenda laying on the bed. Then suddenly Brenda gets up and suprises Natalie by punching her on her right [our left] cheek. However when Natalie awakens, tied to the bed, the bruise is on her other cheek. (01:21:00)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Damon leaves the car to go into the woods to pee, Natalie soon becomes confronted by the lunatic. She opens the drivers seat door and the window is fully closed. In the next shot it is wide open and she rolls it up frantically. (00:28:20)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Sasha is on the air in her radio station talking to a caller who has phoned in, she sits down and removes the outer cover on her microphone. However in the next shot the cover is back on. It is then off again in the next shot. (00:08:35)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Natalie is in the car, all of a sudden the tapping on the car roof starts, like the Urban Legend. The thuds and taps cause the passenger seat sun-visor to fall down. But in the next shot from outside, it is pushed back up. (00:28:50)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Brenda is caught wounding Natalie by Reese, she backs away. As Reese points her gun at Brenda and tells her to back up, between shots Brenda's coat keeps changing it's position on her shoulders from on or off them. (01:26:15)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: In the first shot of Tosh at the computer in the Goth chat room, she has black lipstick on. From then on her lips are clean; leaving it open for her to say that she 'is just going to get ready', to her chat room friend. (00:36:25)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: Brenda is showing Natalie a slideshow using a projector to show her how her boyfriend was killed; she firstly shows a photo, then a newspaper article. The article is left projected for the whole scene. That is until Brenda is shot out of the window, and now it is the photo that is back to being projected. (01:22:20 - 01:28:45)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Natalie opens the door and Parker's body falls out, it is covered in foam from the way in which he was killed earlier on. Between shots the foam covering his differs. Also, the position of his right arm changes between these shots. (01:19:50)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: During the scene with Parker, Natalie and Brenda talking in the coffee lounge, the bottles of water on the table in between them rotate on their own accord. Additional items move and appear as well as the scene goes on. (00:09:20)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Sasha is pushed over the banister by the killer, she grabs the corner of the stairs; as she hangs on, her hands change position. In one shot she has one hand either side of the corner. Then she has both hands on the right side, then back again. (01:07:55)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: In the climax of the movie, Brenda is shot out of the boarded up window. However the boards that are nailed across the window change. Firstly, there are only a few planks with many gaps. But from outside, the whole window is boarded, with NO gaps. (01:28:40)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Natalie and Paul are talking upstairs at the party, at one point Paul puts his hand up by Natalie's ear. Natalie then puts her hand up on Paul's wrist. However between shots the hand she placed on his wrist keeps appearing then disappearing. (00:59:30)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Michelle pulls up into the gas station, her windshield wipers are on. The wipers are just about to swing upwards. Cut to a close up and they are no longer in the process of swinging upwards but, are down. (00:03:50)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Visible crew/equipment: When the camera is fixed on the television set, showing the news report of the death of Michelle, if you look to the left of the screen, there is a reflection of the camera, but more noticeable is the large red dot from it. (00:21:00)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Visible crew/equipment: After Michelle climbs out of the window and runs across the gas station to her car, the camera follow her in an overhead shot. If you watch to the left of the screen you can see the large shadow of the camera crane that follows. (00:06:55)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Audio problem: When Natalie shoots Brenda backwards, causing her to fly out of the window, we hear the sound of smashing glass as she flies out. However there was no glass; the window was missing and the hole was boarded up with planks, so we should not hear glass. (01:28:45)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Audio problem: When Michelle is taken inside by the gas station attendant, she thinks he is going to attack her. As she tries the locked door and he grabs her, we hear herscreams but her mouth doesn't match up to them. (00:06:35)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Natalie and Brenda are walking across campus and come across the stall with Paul's newspapers, Natalie picks up one of them. Between shots, the way she holds it open changes from holding it in the middle, to the top. (00:19:40)

Hamster

4th May 2008

Urban Legend (1998)

Continuity mistake: When Michelle gets back into her car after escaping the gas station attendant, as she drives following the moments up to when she is decapitated in her car, her wet fringe keeps on changing position between shots. (00:07:25)

Hamster

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