Bad Taste

Bad Taste (1987)

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Visible crew/equipment: When the guy falls off the cliff and splats on the rocks below, if you watch it in slow motion, you can just see an orange bucket appear for a few moments which chucks the blood in the air. (00:23:25)

Visible crew/equipment: When Derek plunges down the cliff, he lands on a rock, but if you watch carefully it's very apparent that two hands belonging to a crewmember throw a pair of fake legs over the rock. (00:23:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When we see Derek land on the rock after taking the fall down the cliff, behind the rock he landed on there is grassy hills and then some big rocks. Later when they say birds were the only thing he can relate to, it shows a shot of Derek covered in gulls, but now the huge rocks in the background scenery have gone, and in addition, the position of his legs have changed too. (00:23:25 - 00:25:55)

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: After Ozzy and Frank put the "Road Closed" sign up, the shot widens to follow the car, and the camera pans upward to reveal the "Kaihoro" road sign. On the floor beside the signpost, as the camera pans up, is an aluminum camera box and a Sennheiser microphone. (00:26:20)

Visible crew/equipment: When the Collector is in his car trying to get his window up, there is one shot of him outside of the car trying to get the window up. If you look in the reflection of his car you can see a camera being held. (00:29:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: Robert drops a machete on the collectors lap when he has his hand trapped in the window, and the collector tosses it onto the passenger seat. in the following shot where he says "bye-bye," the machete is now repositioned. (00:29:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the car on the collectors passenger seat there's a pile of collection bags, and a heavy machete resting atop. However in the shot where he pushes the handbrake down, you can see the passenger seat has nothing on it. (00:29:30 - 00:30:15)

Hamster

Revealing mistake: When the collector gets into his car, he tries to close the car window. Robert puts his hand through the window. The collector manages to close it well enough to trap Robert's hand and takes off in his car. From a camera view outside the car, you can see the window isn't closed enough for Robert's hand to be trapped. (00:29:30)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When the collector has got Robert's hand trapped in the window, he drives off, and his car's front license plate is missing, yet is back in the very next shot. (00:29:40)

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: In one shot where the camera is following alongside Robert with his hand stuck in the window, who is now running alongside the driving car, you can see, in the reflection of the collectors car windows, the top of the black car which is driving alongside, filming the shot. (00:29:50)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: The whole road and the roadside shrubs and bushes completely change between shots, after Robert pulls the bumper from the car off. (00:30:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Robert manages to free himself from the collector's car, he keeps running after the car. He grabs the bumper which falls off. Robert falls to the ground beside the bumper. When it cuts, he has moved away from the bumper. (00:30:15)

Mortug

Visible crew/equipment: When Robert is looking at the inside of the collectors car, before he smashes it with a rock, reflected in the window (from the inside) is a man holding equipment, and a camera. (00:32:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the collector gets hit in the head by the chef, he falls and slides down the stairs. He slides down about five steps, but when it cuts, it's only two steps. (00:32:40)

Mortug

Visible crew/equipment: When Derek sits up after pushing the back of his head which had split open back up, crew is reflected in his glasses. (00:36:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the guys are getting the weapons from the car, in the forest clearing, the ground surrounding the parked car changes through the scene. At first, it is brown dirt with branches and twigs everywhere. By the end of the scene, when they exclaim "the bastards have landed," the ground is now covered with lush green grass. (00:39:05 - 00:40:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the guys are in the forest clearing, getting guns from the car boot and changing their clothes, Frank says "Don't you forget Oz..." and he takes his white jacket off while he is speaking. But in the following shot Frank's jacket is now back on him again, zipped all the way up. (00:40:15)

Hamster

Visible crew/equipment: When Frank is listening to the alien leader and realizes the entire town is stuffed into the boxes, he goes back to the rest of the guys. When he closes the door, the shadow of the camera man is visible on the door. Shadows from crew members are visible in this same room several times. (00:43:35)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When the guys are in the room eavesdropping on what the alien leader has to say, one alien holding a glass bowl walks in on them. In this shot, Frank's wolleen hat is off. Then in the shot when Frank punches the alien, it has reappeared back on his head. Cut back and it has gone again. (00:44:50)

Hamster

Audio problem: When Lord Crumb says "Once the Fast Food authorities have checked the samples..." his mouth movements are way out of sync with the audio. (00:45:50)

Hamster

Derek: I'm a Derek and Dereks don't run.

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