Best thriller movie continuity mistakes of 1987

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Suspect picture

Continuity mistake: When Kathleen goes to talk to Carl, her client, while he's in restraints she writes "You're deaf, aren't you!" on a legal pad then sits on his bed. She's holding her Sharpie in her hand, cap end up. When the perspective changes to Carl's, the Sharpie is cap end down. The shots go back and forth another time the same way.

Ingabritzen

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Prince of Darkness picture

Continuity mistake: When Walter is being rescued from the room he was trapped in, through the hole in the wall, we see the outside of the hole and Walter's body is outside except for his legs, and we see the hands trying to pull him back. In the next shot inside the room, Walter is again inside except for his head and arms. It repeats several times. (01:28:30)

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Suggested correction: This is incorrect. Walter and Lisa are wearing similar clothes, making it look like he is in both rooms at once. Instead, as he is almost completely in the other room, Lisa is close behind him.

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Continuity mistake: When Claudia is being cross examined Dr. Morrison can be seen in the background with his pen in his hand and then his hands clasped, and then with his hands on his cheek throughout the entire scene as the camera angle changes.

MCKD

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Continuity mistake: When Jerry throws all the knifes on the table he picks up a certain knife. It cuts to another shot and you see him pick up the knife again, but it isn't the same knife anymore. The knife he picked up in the first place is still on the table. (01:12:25)

Mortug

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Continuity mistake: When Margaret is getting rid of the evidence of Billy Hahn visiting her, she crumples up the papers in his file and tosses them onto the file. The next shot showing her getting her gun out of the drawer, the paper is gone, then a different angle shows the large crumpled wad again, then again, a new angle shows an even bigger crumpled wad.

ChiChi

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Continuity mistake: When the chimp, Goofy, is flying using the simulator, he's flying haphazardly and crashes into a red truck. He then turns and smiles at the trainer. In the next shot, he is flying haphazardly again.

William Bergquist

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Continuity mistake: Kevin Costner jumps a subway turnstile as the two CIA agents chase him. The back of his pants are dirty but in the next shot as he runs down the escalator they're clean again.

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Opera picture

Continuity mistake: When he puts the pins in her eyes, evey time it is shown it's different - sometimes they are all covered in blood, sometimes only some of them or one, and sometimes there's no blood at all.

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Hard Ticket to Hawaii picture

Continuity mistake: When a man is taking Polaroid pictures to a woman, the handkerchiefs behind her change colour and position between shots.

Sacha

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Ten Little Indians picture

Continuity mistake: During the dinner quickly interrupted by the record. Anthony Marston raises his glass to Vera, but his hand was nowhere near the glass in the previous shot - not even on the table. (00:14:30)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: The car in the garage moves from the parking spot to outside of the parking designated spots despite the car never starting. (00:05:10)

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