Revealing mistake: When Nelson first undergoes the experiment, the doctors use a small mask to put him to sleep. When he is supposedly waking up, Rachel asks Randy to help her with oxygen. He hands her the same small mask they used the first time ie. anesthetic. Just for a second she has a look on her face which says "this is the wrong mask" and she tries to hide it with her hand. For the whole rest of the film, the other doctors use a bigger mask when giving oxygen.
Revealing mistake: Rachel's father's suicide: After he heads down the stairs (during her death experiment), we suddenly hear a popping sound like a gunshot, as the girl follows her mother outside, to see glass littering the pavement. Then the camera flipping to shots of an old pickup parked on the curbside. And a single bloodied gunshot hole through the windshield. Which would not have happened within the 5-second time, between the stairs and the curb.
Chosen answer: I don't know the area, but there is nothing unusual about a dirt road leading to a house, both my wife's parents and her brother have a long dirt road that leads to the house from a major road. It's common as the city or county doesn't usually have the budget to pave/maintain roads out past the city limits.
Grumpy Scot