Continuity mistake: When Robbie throws his jacket to cover the clown, he throws it effortlessly and misses by far; one can even notice he throws it quite low. Shot changes and the jacket is flying high at a bigger speed.
Sacha
5th Apr 2023
Poltergeist (1982)
5th Apr 2023
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: Before the clown attacks him, Robbie stretches his right arm and turns the light off. A shot later his right arm is resting by his side, and he is lowering his left arm.
15th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After Carol Ann's been abducted, her family walks upstairs and places one mattress on top of another. A few seconds later they are arranged in a different way.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: During the big-throat scene, Carol Anne's feet alternate between rapid up and down movement, still or just slightly up and down.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Diane and Carol are in the tub, the amount of red slime on Diane's forehead, and foam on Steven's hand increases or decreases between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When the scientist's face starts to melt, the stuff on the wall keeps changing all the time.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Steve's high on pot and tells Diane he loves her, he has his hand raised. A frame later it's down by the blanket.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: Robbie watches the tree and gets in bed. Next to him there's a yellow comic book underneath a Darth Vader bust. When his mother arrives the comic book is completely different.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: Returning from the pool, Diane enters the kids' bedroom and starts to fly, covering the door with mud. A second later the door is clean, only to dirty itself in the following shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When the big throat is menacing the kids, Carol Anne's position swaps from being left or right to Robbie randomly between shots.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When the ghostbusters team goes upstairs with Steve for the first time, Ryan takes his bag off twice.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie wakes up to cover the clown, his grip on the jacket and the position of his head (crouched neck against breast vs raised neck) changes between one frame and the other.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: The first night the ghosts come out of the TV, before Carol Ann wakes up, there's a pillow on the background laying on the floor by a basket. When she walks towards the TV the pillow is standing upright by the basket.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie leaves in a taxi, in the close-up Steve is massaging Diane, in the wide angle he is just standing behind. This keeps swapping back and forth.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Carol Ann is about to be abducted, sometimes she is suspended horizontally over the bed, others diagonally.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie is trapped by the tree and Carol Ann is about to be abducted, his bed cover keeps changing back and forth from messy to perfectly folded.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: After the chair moves, Steve is in awe, his left hand on the counter. A frame later, on the close-up shot, it's on his thigh.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: In the pool, Diane is surrounded by at least 4 bodies floating together; however, when she grabs the hose to climb up, half a second later, the overview of the pool shows just 2 bodies quite a distance each away from each other. In the next close-up, the 4 bodies reappear.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Diane falls in the pool, the distance to the floating corpse on the left increases or decreases randomly depending on the shot.
8th Nov 2010
Poltergeist (1982)
Continuity mistake: When Robbie covers the clown, the Chewbacca print on the jacket keeps changing in every shot.
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