Sammo

23rd Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: During Louise's interview, look behind her as she mentions that naturally, if she "were not able to sleep..." The corner of the room (with the armchair where Poirot sits when he steals Simon's lunch) is entirely in the shade, but it's brightly lit in the rest of the scene. (01:22:40)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Kindaichi follows the gang of rollerskating thieves in their hideout. The female leader says she has a question about his book, and hands him what he identifies as his book of short stories. He's holding it with the left hand in close-up, but in the next shot it's the right hand. (00:17:40)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: It's stabbing time for the two idiot killers; Stu is about to plunge his knife into Billy. Notice Matthew Lillard's necklace as he says "I'll remember"; it's above the sweater. Cut (camera cut, that is), and it's under the sweater. Next time we see it, back to a previous angle and to the necklace being above the sweater. (01:35:10)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Billy is taunting Sidney saying the game is called "guess how am I gonna die" he is holding the voice box in a different way between shots. (01:31:20)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Stu and Randy are begging Sidney at the front door accusing each other, Neve Campbell's hair is pressed against her body or on top of her right arm in different shots. (01:29:10)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When the doctor starts cleaning Simon's wound, there's barely any blood on the side, but in the next shot, from the side, there's still a lot of it. (01:04:30)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: After her first time with Billy, Sid brushes her hair. She puts the brush back on the bedstand, but the phone on it changes angle between shots. Later in the scene, you can also see the brush's handle sticking out from the side of the bedstand by the bed, or the one facing front. (01:18:55)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Gale and Dewey nearly end up as roadkill for a bunch of teenagers who are really on a rush to go see Fonzie hanging by his entrails, Gail initially is on Dewey's right, and you can see Courteney Cox pulling David Arquette's right arm. The stuntpersons though are in a different position, the woman being on the left. (01:17:50)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Randy pauses Halloween to launch himself into the famous "rules to survive a horror movie" speech, look at the table. There are two bottles of beer, the leftmost one apparently still with a cap. You can still see it when everyone toasts to the "no drugs and booze" rule. But as he reaches the third rule, the "I'll be right back" one, that beer is gone, and Stu is leaving to get himself a new beer. (01:13:35)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: In the garage scene, the position of the items by the door and switches changes without in theory anyone touching them, and does it suddenly too. For instance look at the blue board and how it is tilted towards the railing after Tatum has thrown the last bottle, or how the silver and red board is in front or behind another item. (01:05:00 - 01:07:00)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: When Stu announces all excited that the chick from the news show is at the door, look at the necklace he's wearing, and how it changes position (barely touches his shirt's neck in close-up, it's lower in the wider angle). A few moments after, when Tatum beckons Dewey, he is even wearing it under the shirt - and Stu hasn't messed with his clothes in the meantime. (01:03:30)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: The doorbell rings during the party and Stu tumbles over the couch to go get it; does so in two shots that are completely off when it comes to continuity, just look at his robe, and Rose McGowan's gestures with the toothpick. (01:03:15)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: The sheriff and Dewey are talking; one is smoking and the other has a cone. When the sheriff says that "it's been confirmed", Dewey takes a mouthful of ice cream, but at the cut he does it again, with perfectly clean lips and without having even the time to swallow the previous. Since the joke is that he takes a mouthful each time the sheriff takes a puff of smoke, he takes one too many, one before and one after the cut. (00:59:50)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: Billy gets in Randy's face as he says he's killer. Stu puts him in a hold, but the position of his hand in the lock changes between shots. (00:57:05)

Sammo

22nd Feb 2022

Scream (1996)

Continuity mistake: Randy wonders with Stu if Sidney may go out with him now that Billy kinda outed himself as a killer. Stu goes through extensive Matthew Lillard-isms hunching forward, but in the next shot when he answers deadpan "No. I don't. At all." he's standing straight. (00:56:15)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When Ferguson helps Simon Doyle on the couch, his tie slides off Simon's non-injured leg once, then in the next shot it is on it again and re-slips. (01:00:55)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene when Jackie gets drunk in record time, David Niven's shadow on the curtain changes sharply when the angle switches the first time; in the closer view he casts a deep shadow right behind his head, while in the wide angle of the room there's barely any shadow. In the same transition, Linnet is touching the cards with both hands first, simply holding her cigarette in the second shot. (00:57:55)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: When the doctor feels the need to make a precise assessment of the stone's age, the maid is suddenly close to the big rock between shots. (00:49:00)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: Linnet is enraged because apparently Salome Otterbourne featured her in her fiction book and equated her to "a nymphomaniacal baboon." Nonsense aside, she gets up holding the book. Angela Lansbury is looking at her, left hand upturned. Cut, and she is staring at her with both hands in her lap, downturned. (00:35:35)

Sammo

21st Feb 2022

Death on the Nile (1978)

Continuity mistake: Mrs. Salome Otterbourne sits next to Linnet. Linnet is holding an object between her hands; when Salome says that writers can get flowery in their speech, Linnet replies drily, but the hands changed also position. They were at the same level in the first shot, they are one on top of the other in the follow-up. (00:35:00)

Sammo

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