Continuity mistake: When Eddie and Sara are walking around in the basement, Eddie splits up from Sara, and then Sara spots him standing next to a doorway. In the first shot Sara walks around the corner and spots Eddie, yet in the following shot Sara is actually leaning against the doorway. (00:39:35)
The-Immortal
20th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
19th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Eddie and Sara get back from the basement of the house, Sara is explaining what happened to Blackburn and Evelyn. In the shot of Evelyn, the bottle of Vodka on the top is only half full, if that, then when the camera returns to Evelyn the bottle is filled almost to the top. (00:42:00)
19th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Sara and Eddie are in the saturation chamber thinking that Price killed Blackburn, they open the chamber and discover the body of Blackburn. When the body falls out the arms and legs face towards Sara, then when they look at it on the floor it is now facing the opposite direction. (01:08:50)
19th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Sara follows the imaginary Eddie into the room containing the big tank of blood, in one shot we see that Sara passes a glass medical cabinet, and in the following shot she is seen passing it again. (00:40:20)
17th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the film when Pritchett has led them all up to the house. In one shot we see Blackburn saying his line, "Wheres our host, the fabulous Mr Price?" look behind him at Pritchett he has his hand up to his glasses, then in the following shot he has his hand down by his side. (00:15:50)
17th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the film when we see Pritchett shake hands with Blackburn, in this shot we can see that Eddie is standing in front of Blackburn and slightly to the side of him, yet in the following shot Eddie is nowhere to be seen, and the shot after he is back in front of Blackburn. (00:13:40)
17th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Factual error: At the opening scene of the film when one of the insane people of the institute shoves pencils into the guys neck, the pencils we see are not long enough to go right through his neck. The insane patient would have to be holding the pencils inside the guys neck for them to go right through him. (00:04:40)
17th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the film when we first see Evelyn enter the house on haunted hill, she drops her briefcase at the door right on some kind of design on the floor, in the following shot the briefcase has moved forward some distance from where it was in the previous shot. (00:17:15)
17th Sep 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Revealing mistake: In the opening scene of the film we see the patients of the institute smash through a cubicle where a guy is, watch closely. The glass breaks away very very easily, obviously some kind of special easy-to-break glass used for this scene. (00:04:30)
29th Jul 2005
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Continuity mistake: When the guests are shown the guns in the casket, upon the first look inside they are not straight or in a perfect line, but in the close up shot they are straight. (00:28:50)
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