Continuity mistake: In the scene where Freddy turns into a puppet, he cuts his own strings with his knive fingers to get down and as he falls you can see some strings still attached to him, but when the shot changes and he lands on the floor, there are no longer any strings attached to him. (00:28:30)
Hamster
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Continuity mistake: When the group hypnosis fails, Neil tells everyone to take five. Joey gets up and walks over to the water cooler. In the next shot you can see Joey get up once again. (00:45:30)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Alice is holding onto the edge of the wall in the cinema because she is being blown to the screen, between shots Alice's shoe flies off of her foot twice. (01:01:45)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When Dan pulls up in his red truck, before he goes into the restaurant, you can see the crew reflected in the side of the truck. (00:26:45)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Kristen meets the little girl drawing the chalk house, between the two shots before it starts raining, the chalk drawing changes. (00:02:35)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: After Nancy pulls her phone out in frustration, she wraps the phone cord around it, and places it on her bed nice and neatly. But in the next shot of the phone mysteriously ringing, the phone is in a different position and the phone cord is wrapped around the phone differently. (01:03:50)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Nancy is in class, the teacher walks around the room and we get a good look of everyone in their seats. Then she asks one student to read in front of the class. But the student who gets up and reads wasn't who was sitting there in the previous shot. He is a different person, and is also wearing different clothes. (00:22:15 - 00:23:00)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Audio problem: When the police pull up and run over to arrest Rod, he says "I'm cool, I'm cool!" His mouth doesn't move when this is said. (00:21:45)
19th Sep 2004
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Revealing mistake: When Kincaid tears a pipe out of the ground to beat Freddy with, as he yanks it out you can see tape hanging off the pipe it was next to, showing they are fake. (01:19:30)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Continuity mistake: In her dream, Kristen does a back flip, and Freddy lungs at her, misses, and punches the wall. Yet in the next closeup Freddy rips his knife fingers out of the wall, as if his hand went straight into the wall. (01:09:25)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Freddy is set alight, he runs up the cellar staircase which has steps with no backs to them. Then when he is hit by the door and rolls down the stairs, the staircase has changed, and the backs of the steps are there. (01:19:50)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: Nancy and Glen are talking on a bridge and Nancy is holding a book. Glen then takes it from her and reads it's title aloud, and in a closeup he is holding the book closed. But as the shot changes Glen is holding the book so that it is open. (00:53:05)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the prison cell, just before Rod falls to the floor because notices the sheet wrapping around his neck, between shots the way the sheet is wrapped around his neck changes. (00:42:45)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: In one scene Nancy's mother is pouring herself a drink, then Nancy enters the room and she switches off the TV. Then Nancy and her mother start talking about going to school, and behind Nancy's mother on the worktop, a white alcohol bottle can be seen. But after their conversation when Nancy leaves, the bottle of alcohol is gone. (00:19:40 - 00:20:30)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the cross falls off of the wall, Nancy rolls over in her bed and stretches her left arm to get it, with her right arm under the covers. Then as the shot changes, Nancy's right arm is resting on the pillow, by her head. (00:11:45)
18th Sep 2004
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Visible crew/equipment: When Nancy's mother is pulled through the door window, a tape marker can be seen on the blue door, above the door handle. (01:25:15)
16th Sep 2004
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Visible crew/equipment: As Ousier's dog's leash snaps and the dog runs off, a wire can briefly be seen attached to the dog's collar. (00:32:40)
16th Sep 2004
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Ouiser is trying to tie up her dog and hold it back, between shots her handbag repeatedly goes from hanging on her arm to laying on the floor. (00:15:20)
15th Sep 2004
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Continuity mistake: When Kyle and Andy are climbing up the metal roller conveyer, in a wide shot when Kyle calls "Come on" to Andy, you can see Kyle is right at the top of the conveyer, but when the shot changes, Kyle isn't quite at the top yet. (01:06:30)
14th Sep 2004
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Continuity mistake: When the fire alarm has been set off, Andy is standing at the top of the staircase, looking at Kyle. Then Grace Pool walks down the stairs and grabs Andy by the top of his arm. But when the shot changes she is holding his hand. (00:58:00)
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