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Visible crew/equipment: When Jason approaches Ginger and Brigitte and suggests they should "get together," you can subtly and briefly see the shadow of the camera on the back of his head. When it cuts to the opposite angle, there's nothing else behind him that could be casting the shadow. (It happens very quick and can be hard to catch).

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Continuity mistake: When Brigitte is pushed into the dead dog on the track field, she starts to wretch and puts her hand up by her mouth. Ginger comes over and asks if she's OK. Instantly between cuts, Brigitte's hand goes from up by her mouth to down by her side.

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Continuity mistake: When Ginger and Brigitte are smoking in the school field in the beginning, when Brigitte refers to Trina as "Your standard c***-buckety date-bait, " Ginger's hand (holding the cigarette) goes from down by her side to up right next to her face instantly between cuts.

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Continuity mistake: When Ginger and Brigitte are smoking in the school field in the beginning and notice Jason checking Ginger out, they turn around. Ginger hand (holding the cigarette) goes from up near her chest to down by her waist instantly between cuts as they turn around. Between the same cut, Brigitte's hand also goes from exposed to covered by her sleeve.

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Continuity mistake: In the classroom at the beginning, when Jason asks "Can we see the ones with Ginger again?", watch closely. His hand instantly raises between cuts. Additionally, the girl behind him goes from having her arms down, to having one up under her chin, to back down again between cuts.

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Continuity mistake: When Ginger and Brigitte are taking a photo of Ginger "impaled" on the fence right before the opening credits, the amount of blood on the fence instantly changes between cuts after Brigitte says "Too much blood and I can see your gonch!" (Suddenly, much more blood appears on the fence posts on the right side of screen).

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Continuity mistake: When Ginger and Brigitte are talking about their suicide pact in the first scene, Ginger puts her hand out and says "Out by sixteen or dead on the scene " When she first reaches her hand out, it's flat with her palm facing up and her fingers pointed out. It then cuts to the opposite angle, instantly she is holding her hand with her palm facing out and her fingers pointed up.

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Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, from the moment the little boy wipes the blood on his face to the last time we see him (when the mom is crying about how "It got our dog!"), the amount of blood on his face changes at least twice. Sometimes there is more or less depending on the shot.

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Deliberate mistake: When Dead Reckoning is firing the missiles at the end (towards the crowd that's being eaten by zombies), you can tell that they repeat the same shot of the missile firing three separate times, even though it's supposed to be three different missiles. (It's the shot of the exhaust coming out of the back of the launcher.) They try to mask it by cutting a little earlier or later each time... but it's obvious.

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Trivia: Originally, there were going to be several scenes with graphic male nudity, including a scene that match-cut the lighthouse and the erect penis of one of the lead characters. The producers were able to use these as a bargaining chip... they would let Robert Eggers shoot the film in full-frame black-and-white as he envisioned... as long as he cut the nudity, since it would get them an NC-17 rating. Eggers has since admitted the scenes involving male nudity were misjudged and "juvenile."

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Trivia: An alternate ending was written where, in the final moments of the movie, the scene would suddenly cut to the Silver Shamrock Factory from "Halloween III: Season of the Witch." You'd see the witch, pumpkin and skeleton masks being produced... then suddenly, you'd see dozens of Michael Myers masks on an assembly-line, implying some sort-of connection between Michael and Silver Shamrock. This ending was ultimately thrown out because it was deemed to be too weird and fan-servicey.

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Trivia: The movie originally began as a modern day "reinterpretation" of an unfinished Edgar Allan Poe story called "The Light-House." The project stalled, and was eventually retooled as a stand-alone period film, with any references to Poe's work removed.

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Trivia: Willem Dafoe originally was meant to be missing an eye and several fingers, and have an old-fashioned peg-leg. This was changed because director Robert Eggers worried people would assume he was a pirate giving the film's nautical themes.

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Trivia: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson had both reached out to director Robert Eggers after seeing his film "The Witch," wanting to work with him. Dafoe even saw "The Witch" two days in a row... going once by himself, then forcing his wife to come with him to see it the following day because he loved it so much. It just-so-happened that Eggers was a fan of both actors and wanted to work with them... and he realised they would be a perfect fit for the two lead characters in "The Lighthouse."

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Trivia: Actress Anya Taylor-Joy had become good friends with director Robert Eggers after they made "The Witch" together. Taylor-Joy has said she begged Eggers to be in "The Lighthouse" so they could work together again, and wanted to play the mermaid. Eggers told her she wasn't right for the part. Taylor-Joy then jokingly exclaimed that she'd "play a seagull" if it meant she could be in the movie. Needless to say, that didn't happen. (Although she was in Eggers' next film, "The Northman.").

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Trivia: The film was originally budgeted at $70 million, but this was lowered to $55 million because the studio got cold feet after one of Eddie Murphy's movies, "The Distinguished Gentleman," was a critical failure and performed below expectations. However, due to issues and delays during the filming, the budget ended up ballooning to well over the original $70 million budget.

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Trivia: The film was originally meant to take place in England, with several co-stars such as Sean Connery or John Cleese being suggested for Axel's new partner. However, this idea was dropped since it was deemed too similar to the movie "Black Rain," about an American cop who goes to Japan. "Die Hard" writer Steven E. De Souza was then hired, based on an idea he had that was pitched as "'Die Hard' in an amusement park." This became the basis for the script.

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Trivia: John Carpenter has said that the movie was meant to be silly and tongue-in-cheek, with a purposely ludicrous premise. He'd even come onto set every day and exclaim that the movie was "The biggest piece of s**t I've ever made!" He was reportedly incredibly annoyed that critics and audiences took it seriously, even remarking "It's called 'Ghosts Of Mars' for Christ's sake! Why would people take this movie seriously?" He's since said that he should have added more humor to clarify the the tone.

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Trivia: Reportedly, the films uses of the f-word were added at the last minute because they didn't think the film would get an R-rating due to most of the violence being not very bloody. (Mostly just people getting hit by cars.) They were worried movie goers wouldn't go to see a Stephen King horror movie that was rated PG, so they peppered in several f-bombs to artificially drive it up to an R-rating.

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Trivia: Much of the film was shot in the same neighborhood as John Carpenter's earlier film, "Halloween."

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