Continuity mistake: In her dream, Kristen is bit by Kincaid's dog on her right arm. When she wakes up, the wound is on her left arm. (00:06:25)
Hamster
28th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
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Suggested correction: Incorrect: she is bitten on her left arm in the dream (it's on the right, but she's facing the screen).
27th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: After Freddy 'sucks' Sheila, Freddy says "You flunked", then it cuts to Alice trying to get out from her desk. Under her desk you can see someones fingers briefly. (00:44:25)
27th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Sheila's pen bleeds, she puts the pen down, then smears the blood around her physics test. Between shots, the way the blood has smeared changes. (00:42:45)
27th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Sheila's pen starts to bleed, she puts it down on her desk, with the lid off. In the next shot there's a lid on it, and the pen has also changed it position. Her inhaler has also changed position. (00:42:40)
25th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Revealing mistake: When Shelia is dying, Alice is trying to help her, but she is 'thrown' to the floor. Then there is another shot of Shelia, and you clearly see a pulse in her neck, although she's meant to be dead. (00:44:50)
25th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the nib of Shelia's pen starts bleeding on her test, the pool of blood on her paper moves between shots. (00:42:30)
25th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: After Kristen first falls into the quicksand, the shot changes, and a palm tree appears which wasn't there before. (00:34:35)
25th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Kristen falls into the quicksand, there's a shot of her from behind, and her back is covered in quicksand, although her back hasn't been in the sand yet. (00:34:35)
20th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Freddy is pushing down on the weight Debbie is holding, in one shot Debbie is holding the middle of the weight with both hands, then when the shot changes she is holding the weight with one hand either side. (01:06:10)
20th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Alice is in the cinema she has a drink of coke. The Coke has a plastic lid on it. But when Alice turns around to investigate the strong winds, there is no plastic lid on the Coke. Then in the next shot the plastic lid is back on it. (01:01:10)
20th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Revealing mistake: When Alice is being blown towards the cinema screen, she grabs hold of one of the cinema chairs. You can clearly see she is actually holding a handle which is on top of the chair. This is blatantly visible when she lets go of it and flies off. (01:01:35)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Alice is holding onto the edge of the wall in the cinema because she is being blown to the screen, between shots Alice's shoe flies off of her foot twice. (01:01:45)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When Dan pulls up in his red truck, before he goes into the restaurant, you can see the crew reflected in the side of the truck. (00:26:45)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Kristen meets the little girl drawing the chalk house, between the two shots before it starts raining, the chalk drawing changes. (00:02:35)
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