Visible crew/equipment: Before the old man is blown away, a blue mat is seen underneath to drag him safely outside.
Sacha
25th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
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.
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.
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.
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.
25th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
Continuity mistake: The motorbikes chasing the van disappear from the wide shot after they throw the gas bomb inside.
25th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
Visible crew/equipment: When Scott is finally killed by the giant scorpion, the hand of the puppeteer is seen on the left.
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.
24th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
Visible crew/equipment: After Scott's been killed, a shot from behind the scorpion shows a stage light above with a newspaper attached to it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
24th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
Factual error: The shot of the plane in the Melbourne airport before it took off, and the one in Los Angeles after it lands are of the same place.
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.
24th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
Revealing mistake: After the old man is blown away, together with dozens of papers and other stuff, there's a brief shot of the door and some debris remains close to the open door, but don't move an inch.
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.
24th Sep 2008
Tail Sting (2001)
Revealing mistake: After Jennifer saves Milhouse, the scorpion is seen running around the plane, and the shots are reversed and repeated.
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.
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