Corrected entry: The papers that Nell fills out are done with a marker, however we see her using a pencil.
Hamster
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
22nd Oct 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: As Nell first interacts with the child ghost in the wind-blowing curtain corridor, we first see there's something in the end of the corridor. In the shot where Nell follows the child, it isn't there anymore.
10th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Eleanor arrives at the house, and she drives her car around to the door, she gets out and is not carrying anything at all. Then when they show her inside the house she has a suitcase in her hands.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Nell's facial expression changes between front and side shots, when the spirits are moving her hair.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Nell is introduced to her room there is a vase with flowers on the right bed sideboard. From there on, it's no longer there.
Correction: Nell is introduced to her room in the early morning when she arrives. The next scene where we see her room occurs at night-time, giving her plenty of time to move them off the sideboard if she wanted to use the sideboard for space (to put a drink of water down, for example,) or if she decided the flowers would look better somewhere else. This mistake would be valid if they disappaered between shots, however due to the huge time-space between the scenes, anything could have happened to them.
8th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When the four of them are running away from the nursery room, the doors on both sides of the hallway start closing. Watch very closely, as one crew member is seen on the other side of one of the doors.
7th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The amount of spilled blood changes on the glass that Mary has on her eye.
Correction: There are only two shots of her with the glass over her eye; one where they show Nell placing the glass over it (and in this shot the glass is clean.) Then two shots later as she walks out the room crying, there is blood on the glass, which is to be expected. There is no mistake here.
5th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: As Nell finds Dr Marrow's voice recorder, she presses play and hears exactly what she needed, although she never pressed the rewind button.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When the children go call Nell in the middle of the night, neither of Nell's feet are covered. But without moving, in the next shot, Nell's left foot is covered.
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The ceiling is collapsing behind Nell, while Theo is just a few rooms away and doesn't hear anything.
Correction: It's established that the house controls itself, therefore it can monitor its sound it makes, making rooms soundproof; therefore others can't hear it. That's why when Theo and Nell were in the room, and Luke came along, they asked if he could hear it but he said no. The house is able to isolate all the loud bangs and noises it makes.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: The longer section where Nell parks her car isn't there on the painting in front of Mary when she's playing the piano.
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Luke hits with the candelabra on Hugh Crain's painting, notice the white-like scratches were already there.
6th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Nell has a hallucination and sees Mrs. Crain hanging in the Greenhouse, look closely and you can see it is a make-up doll.
7th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: While Luke is putting plastic on the window, you can very briefly see a crewman outside.
11th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When the children call Nell in the middle of the night, she finds bloody footprints on the floor. When she follows the footprints with her eyes, some of them are on the wood floor, some are on the carpet. But when she actually follows them step by step, the carpet's ones are missing.
Correction: This is wrong. When Nell follows the bloody footprints with her eyes we see they go across the wooden floor, then across the carpet, and then back off of the carpet and along the wooden floor again. When she exits the room we only see a tiny part of the carpet, and you can see the bloody footprints alongside the carpet. This is because she has already passed the footprints that went across the carpet (off-camera).
15th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Nell's car isn't seen in the carport in the first overhead shot of Hill House, in the first morning.
23rd Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Strangely enough, neither Theo nor Eleanor noticed that everytime they were in the room corridor, there was smoke coming out of the floor.
7th Nov 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: Liam Neeson can't open the compartment in the fireplace not only because of the iron, but also because he is standing on the door!
Correction: I don't really find this a mistake. Yes, he has his foot on the iron door, but he can most probably tell, just by pulling the door upward, that it is stuck and will not budge. If the iron poker was NOT stopping the door from being able to be pulled up, then Dr. Marrow would probably just move his foot off of the iron door, because there is no force holding the door down.
1st Apr 2005
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: At the scene where Eleanor is alone in the huge room, some really big rock comes out of the area where the bones are buried. When a head swings through that area later on in the movie, she says "That's not what I saw." Did that huge rock just disappear? Where could such an enormous rock go?
Correction: We're talking about a huge haunted mansion here; if spirits can float through curtains, fountains can come to life and spit out blood, and stairs can make themselves collapse, I'm sure the huge object Nell saw, can disappear. And by the way, it wasn't a huge rock. By using slow-motion, I found out that it is in fact a huge, creepy statue.
10th Dec 2002
The Haunting (1999)
Corrected entry: When Luke goes to look for Theo, why does he leave through the doors of hell to the outside? Certainly she wouldn't be outside.
Correction: This mistake is dreadful. Luke exits the room through the doors of hell (and he probably doesn't know they're the doors of hell anyway - the girls never told him) - so please, help me out here - HOW is this a mistake. He's going to look for Theo - how would he know where she is? How do YOU know that she "certainly wouldn't be outside?"
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Correction: There is a marker visible on the couch beside her in the overhead shot, which she could have easily used for the previous tests she has completed. She is using a pencil in this current shot as she fills the paper out, yes, but she could have decided to swap what media she was using. It is also possible that she is filling out the tests using the pencil first (especially due to the fact that they are mazes; therefore if she made a mistake she could erase it), and she might then be drawing over the pencil lines with the marker pen once she has completed the test correctly.
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