Sacha

25th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: Before the scorpion attacks the old man a jacket is hanging from a seat, but in a following shot it's gone.

Sacha

25th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: Jennifer and the Captain crush the scorpion in the coffin. The first shot shows that only one tentacle comes out, but in the immediate close-up many tentacles are out.

Sacha

25th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: The girl wakes up Jan when she sees the scorpion, but when the angle changes Jan is still asleep. Then back to the first angle and she is awake.

Sacha

25th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: Jennifer is dressed up with the suit down in the cellar. When she runs toward the stairs she has reached them, but the following shot shows her back from where she started and she's running towards the stairs again.

Sacha

25th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

25th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: The amount of people to the left of the security check, in the three seconds before and after Gunther passes by, differs drastically.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: After the plane lands, an outside shot (stock footage) shows two male pilots in the cockpit, but inside there's only a man and a woman.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: Captain and Jennifer have killed the scorpion from the cellar and run towards the ladder. The Captain is ahead, but there's an abrupt cut and now she's ahead.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: After crushing the scorpion in the coffin, the lid appears either well placed or slightly skewed, depending on the angle.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: In the airport, the snobbish woman is seated close to the wall and the black man next to her. One second later she's sitting in a different place, holding a newspaper, and the Afro-American is gone.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: The tentacle slaps the Captain on the cheek, but he appears wounded as if he had been hit across the eyes.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: Scott slaps Jennifer. Seconds later she sees the scorpion and lowers her hand. The angle changes and she is lowering her hand again.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: The scorpion exits the cellar through the stairs, and a shot shows it running from the back of the plane towards the front. Then Jennifer comes up those same stairs and we can see she's in the front of the plane, by the cockpit.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: When Scott points the gun, the sky is dark seen from inside the plane, but daylight from the aerial view.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: When Scott is calming down the scorpion, his left hand swaps from being up or down, depending on which angle focuses on him.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: When Jennifer is hitting the scorpion with the laptop, the captain is seen raising his arms towards his head. Half a second later they're down by his hips.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: The amount of seats in Business Class keeps increasing and decreasing throughout the movie, mainly at the end.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: Jennifer is fighting against the queen and ducks her blows. The angles keep changing with her moves, but each one is inconsistent with the previous position.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: When Jan is killed, she keeps changing from lying down, sitting, or hanging from the side of the seat. She goes from one to another depending on the angle.

Sacha

24th Sep 2008

Tail Sting (2001)

Continuity mistake: While Milhouse points the gun at the passengers, a scorpion comes from behind a curtain. From its point of view everyone is standing up really close, but half a second afterwards, they're all sitting down except for the old man, who's managed to move five meters away.

Sacha

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