Best horror movie revealing mistakes of all time

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Blade picture

Revealing mistake: When Karen and Whistler start to fire at Frost's men, after they discovered Blade's hideout, Whistler shoots a black guy who has a large bump under his shirt, quite obviously the squib. (01:11:00)

The-Immortal

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Phantasm picture

Revealing mistake: You can see the stick making the finger move when it's in the box. (00:38:20)

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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles picture

Revealing mistake: When Lestat returns from the swamp and attacks Louis and Claudia, he advances towards Claudia around the piano and his shirt flies up, showing normal flesh color on his back, only his face and hands are covered in makeup.

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The Thing From Another World picture The Thing From Another World mistake picture

Revealing mistake: The Thing takes a swing at the captain after the captain opens the door. As the Thing swings his arm, he takes out a chunk of wood out of the door. If you step through the frames on the DVD, you can see the wood leaving the door a full second after the Thing has hit it. A small explosive charge that was not in sync with the actor. You can also see the outline of where the wood comes off before he swings his arm. And one more thing, his arm does not touch the door or even comes close to where the wood comes off - a safety precaution I presume. (00:57:33)

Larry Koehn

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Suggested correction: It is not a full second delay. It is four frames which translates to 1/6 of a second. Everything described in this entry is only visible if you step through frame by frame which invalidates the mistake.

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Cube picture

Revealing mistake: When they get Renn back into the room after he has been shot in the face with something acid-like, the smoke comes from behind his head. Not his face.

Ssiscool

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Carrie picture

Revealing mistake: When Sue Snell wakes from her nightmare, listen carefully as her mother comforts her. At one point, she calls her Amy, which is the actress's real name (they're mother and daughter in real life).

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Suggested correction: Sue's mom just keeps repeating it's all right, you never hear any name mentioned.

That's because the music is supposed to drown out any dialogue.

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A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors picture

Revealing mistake: When Kristen is running through the hallway with the girl in her arms you see that it is a doll. (00:07:00)

Mortug

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Battle Royale picture

Revealing mistake: Many times throughout the movie, people are shot and they bleed, but their clothes don't have holes from where the bullets hit them. The most noticeable examples are when the teacher is shot at the end, and when the big gun fight between the girls breaks out in the lighthouse.

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Revealing mistake: While Blade's dangling a familiar off the roof, the familiar's phone rings (a Nokia 5210). Blade looks at the screen and sees the doctor's name. However, the display we see is a Nokia phone book listing with only one entry, rather than the "incoming call" display.

Jon Sandys

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Revealing mistake: When Stevie's car is hit by the delivery truck, the side shot that shows the car beginning to roll reveals there is no engine in the car, as we can see through the front fender wells to the truck as it passes on the far side of the car. (01:15:40)

johnrosa

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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge picture

Revealing mistake: When Jesse is cleaning out his room, he puts a tape into his tape player, and presses a button down on the top of it. But halfway though the scene of him packing his things away, you can clearly see the button is no longer pressed down, yet the tape still plays. (00:18:10 - 00:19:00)

Hamster

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Revealing mistake: In the beginning of the movie, where it shows the group of nodding zombies and the Shaun of The Dead logo is on the ground, look to your left, the zombie actor stops nodding and looks around him to see if the shot is still being filmed, and he immediately goes back to nodding. Look out for it, it's obvious. (00:03:45)

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Revealing mistake: When Andy and Claude are fighting each other in the train, during several shots, you can see Claude wearing gray briefs.

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Ernest Scared Stupid picture

Revealing mistake: When Ernest's jack flies out from under his truck it breaks the back windshield of the mayor's car. Watch closely and you can see the glass shatter before the jack makes contact with it.

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