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Factual error: The main plot is that a teacher answering a student's question about Jesus in a historical context starts a legal firestorm. This is utterly preposterous. Teachers (and students for that matter) are 100% allowed to discuss religion in a historical context. They just can't do things like force other people to take part in religious activities (like prayer) or "endorse" a single religion above all others since public schools need to remain neutral. There'd be literally no case against her.

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Continuity mistake: When Mario is watching Luigi trying to talk to Daisy after she gets off the phone, he is tapping the empty water bottle against his head. In the first shot, it's against his forehead, but in the next shot, it's suddenly down by his cheek.

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Continuity mistake: When Daisy approaches Mario and Luigi after making a call at the phone booth, Mario goes from looking sideways at Luigi to looking down under his car's hood between cuts.

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Revealing mistake: In the opening, when Daisy's mother pushes the beam and causes the cave-in in the mine, for a split second, you get a pretty clear shot of Koopa's stunt double, who is taller than and looks nothing like Dennis Hopper. He's only on-screen for about a half-second, but it's very easy to notice it.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Mario is telling Luigi about getting a call from the café for the plumbing job at the start of the film, watch the cabinet with the glass doors behind Luigi. At one point, you can see the reflection of a crew member in a short-sleeve shirt for a few seconds.

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Revealing mistake: When the meteorite strikes the Earth at the beginning of the film, there's an odd slip-up in the effect. About a half-second before it hits, you can sort of see it awkwardly shift slightly to the right for a split second. It's hard to catch, but once you see it, it's fairly noticeable.

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Audio problem: Throughout the scene, where Mario and Luigi are driving to the plumbing job at the beginning of the film, there are multiple moments where their lips and dialogue don't match. It's primarily in the wideshots outside of their van.

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Continuity mistake: When Koopa is pushed into the chair in the Devo Chamber, suddenly a puddle of goop appears on the floor, and you can see that Koopa is sitting atop an empty uniform that wasn't there before. (There was a short, deleted scene where Koopa used the chamber to reduce a worker to primordial slime, leaving the puddle on the ground and the empty uniform on the chair. However, as the scene was cut, the puddle and uniform appear out of nowhere in the finished film.)

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Trivia: John Franklin, who plays the villainous Isaac, was actually a full-grown man in his mid-20s. He had a growth hormone deficiency when he was growing up, and as a result, he never grew taller than 5' and had a slightly lighter voice. This made him perfect for the role as he looked and sounded the part, and also didn't have to deal with the restrictions that come with child labour laws.

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Trivia: Some supporters of the film attempted to spread misinformation by claiming that theatres were purposely cancelling and "sabotaging" shows in an attempt to "silence" it due to its religious nature and associations with the Q-Anon movement. However, the studio behind the film stated that these stories were untrue.

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Trivia: The film uses a "pay it forward" campaign in which audiences could pay for a ticket to be donated and claimed by another person. Shortly after its release, there were reports that many people attended screenings that were labelled as sold-out or nearly sold-out, only for there to be many empty seats in the theatre. This has called the film's box office success into question, as many believe its gross was artificially padded by people over-buying "pay it forward" tickets that were never claimed.

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Trivia: Paul Reubens' final scripted film/television performances as his iconic character Pee-Wee Herman before he tragically passed away from cancer in 2023.

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Trivia: Paul Reubens revealed that, in addition to old makeup tricks, digital effects were used to de-age him for the film, to make him look more like he did in the previous films. Reubens remarked that when he was told how expensive the de-aging effects were during post-production, he realised it would have actually been significantly cheaper for him to have just gotten extensive plastic surgery to make himself look younger before filming.

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Continuity mistake: In the final fight, Batman shoots the blades out of his gauntlet to knock the detonator out of the Joker's hand. About a half second later, Batman throws Joker over him and off the ledge. If you pay attention, the blades have reappeared on Batman's gauntlet for this one quick shot. They are then appropriately missing for the rest of the scene. (This mistake goes by quickly, so slow motion helps but is NOT required.)

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Trivia: Director Christopher Nolan usually prefers using practical effects when possible. For the scene where the nuclear bomb is tested, a more manageably-sized explosion was created by a pyrotechnics team. The explosion was actually fairly close to the actors, but was filmed at specific camera angles to make it seem further away and thus bigger (a technique called "forced perspective"). Super-slow-motion was also utilized, as it subconsciously creates the illusion of a larger scale.

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Trivia: In the original video game, the town of Silent Hill is getting unseasonable snow. However, the film reinterpreted the snow as ash. This caused a "Mandela Effect", where people began to mistakenly think that the snow in the original game was also ash. This misconception became so widespread, many people actually argued with the creators about it online and tried to explain their own game to them. (The same goes for the film using the town of Centralia as inspiration, which the game didn't.)

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Trivia: The characters Heather and Josh, originally had a much more antagonistic relationship during filming, much like Heather and Mike do in the final film. However, most of Heather and Josh's arguments were cut during editing because the directors felt it came across as too mean-spirited to have both men constantly "ganging up" on Heather and arguing with her.

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I remember seeing a film in theatres in the 90s when I was a kid. I think it was a children's sports film. I seem to recall there being a scene where a boy spots another boy through a gap in a shelf at the store and remarks something like, "What a hunk!" At least I think it was two boys... one may have been a tomboyish girl, though. And I think it had something to do with football. Ring anyone's bell? Trying to rewatch childhood movies and it just popped into my head.

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Trivia: The film was originally meant to be a full-on fake documentary, with the "found footage" only being part of it, and the rest of the film being interviews with family, friends, and authorities. However, the "found footage" was so chilling, the directors decided it would be the entire film. The original "fake documentary" concept was then turned into a tie-in TV special called "Curse of the Blair Witch," which aired around the same time the movie came out.

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Trivia: Heather Donahue reportedly snuck a knife to set and would carry it on her because her family was convinced that the movie was secretly a snuff film, and were creeped out at the fact she'd be sharing a tent with two men she barely knew.

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