Best horror movie audio problems of all time

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife picture

Audio problem: During the Walmart scene, it seems they edited in Gary saying "Oh, God." However, it's over no visible mouth or throat movements. (01:15:17)

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Hereditary picture

Audio problem: As Annie is trying to leave Joan's house and she starts to give Annie instructions on how to do the ritual, it's obvious the audio for Joan's lines was dubbed in in post as a lot of her speech doesn't quite match up with her lips. Especially when she's saying "Your whole family needs to be in the house". (01:08:00)

Quantom X

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The Mothman Prophecies picture

Audio problem: When John rips the phone out of the wall, when it hits the floor it makes a bell sound even though its a cordless phone.

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Alien 3 picture

Audio problem: When Aaron attacks "Bishop II", he yells, "F***in' android.", but the words don't match the movement of his lips. (01:41:45)

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Prom Night picture

Audio problem: During a scene where Donna is exiting her hotel room, she runs into Clair and both scream. However, Clair's scream cannot be heard, but an odd screeching sound is played in place of her scream, which continues even after her mouth has been closed.

Michael Piscitelli

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The Ring Two picture

Audio problem: When the deer are all grunting at Rachel and Aidan, the whistle of an elk can be heard despite the fact there are no elk in the scene. (00:30:40)

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The Birds picture

Audio problem: When Annie says, "Did you drive up from San Francisco by the coast road?" her lips are mouthing something different. (00:17:55)

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Resident Evil: Afterlife picture

Audio problem: Near the beginning of the film when Alice and her clones break into the Umbrella building, she comes down in an elevator. The numbers above the elevator showing what floor she is on beep every time they change, but some of the beeps are out of sync. A beep is heard for floor 6 before the number 7 has even changed and a beep is also heard a fraction of a second before the number 3 fully appears. (00:07:05)

THGhost

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May (2002)

May picture

Audio problem: When Adam takes a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket in the laundromat, and says "do you wanna smoke a smoke with me?" to May, his mouth doesn't move. (00:15:10)

Hamster

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Darkness picture

Audio problem: When Regina's father goes crazy while chopping the potatoes the sound of the knife hitting the board is not synchronized.

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The Good Son picture

Audio problem: When the kids are playing hide and go seek and Henry scares Connie, her scream is dubbed in too early. It happens before the shot changes so when you first hear her scream, her mouth isn't moving.

ACertainShadeofGreen

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch picture

Audio problem: During the scene where Dr. Challis goes to visit his two kids, they put on their Halloween masks and his little son says "Let's watch TV." He goes to turn the knob to turn on the TV and a split second before he turns it, we can hear the intro of the commercial on the television.

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Alien Resurrection picture

Audio problem: Near the end of the film, when we see the Queen's new mutation, the scene opens up by showing all the scientists attached to the wall. Dr. Gediman is rambling on and on about the Queen's 'perfect' mutation. However, it is quite clear he isn't saying any of the words. In fact, from the way his mouth moves, it looks like he's literally saying 'blah blah blah, blah blah blah'. (01:27:05)

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Scream 3 picture

Audio problem: When Tyson is running down the stairs he yells something but his lips don't move. (01:19:55)

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The Ninth Gate picture

Audio problem: After the part where Johnny Depp finds his bookstore friend dead, he gets back in the cab. After driving for a while, he tells the cab driver to pull over to the phone booth. The cab driver says "No problem, sir," but you can see the cab driver's lips in the rear view mirror, and they are closed.

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The Amityville Horror picture

Audio problem: When Chelsea is screaming "Liar! Liar! Liaar!!" to her mother, Kathy, in one shot we see Chelsea's mouth still saying "liar," but no audio is heard. (00:47:05)

Hamster

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Cube 2: Hypercube picture

Audio problem: When Simon opens the portal to discover Jerry walking upside down, Jerry is saying things like "Do you need a hand there? You're upside down", yet his mouth doesn't move at all. (01:10:25)

Hamster

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The Little Vampire picture

Audio problem: When Tony goes down to help Rudoplh after he tries to fly out of the window, Tony asks him if he's okay and you can hear Rudoplh saying "Do I look it?" but his lips never move.

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