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Revealing mistake: Phibes' "real" face is a mask. Not only can you see the edges of it around his eyes, but his mouth and teeth look fairly unnatural and like a "solid" piece.

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Revealing mistake: When Joey stumbles into the church, there are a few wide shots where you can tell the background is mostly a matte painting. What gives it away is that the candles in the foreground are flickering while the candles in the background aren't since they're painted.

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Revealing mistake: When JP gets the two pistons shoved through his head and we see them "break through" his head, you can tell it's just two different takes of the same effect, since both come out ABOVE his ear, whereas when we see the final result, there's one coming out BELOW his ear. (The hairline on the fake prop head is also a little wonky.)

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Revealing mistake: When Pinhead is in the statue talking to JP, you can see where the makeup ends around his mouth/lips during his close-ups, especially when he spits out the bullets.

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Revealing mistake: When the CD's embedded into the DJ's head, the second CD we see cut into his skin has fishing line coming off it.

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Revealing mistake: During the nightclub massacre, there's a brief shot of a woman having the skin around her eye pulled off. You can tell that she just had some fake skin over her face and had her face painted with a "blood" texture beneath. The effect is incredibly cheap and unconvincing.

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Revealing mistake: When the former bartender-turned-Cenobite blows a hole through the brick wall and comes out, you can see the "brick wall" bend like foam or rubber as he comes through, revealing it's a fake prop wall.

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Revealing mistake: When Joey is running around the streets with the box, the former bartender Cenobite blows a hole through the wall and comes out. There's a brief shot of Joey cowering with her back to him, and you can plainly see one of the supposed "bricks" from the wall literally smack her on the side of the head and harmlessly bounce off, revealing it's a lightweight foam replica. The scene tries to cover by adding in her grunting "Ugh!", but if it was a real brick, it would have knocked her right out.

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Revealing mistake: When Pinhead pulls the pins (with attached worms) out of his head, there are two brief flubs. In the first close-up, you can see several of the pins on his head "wobble" unnaturally, revealing that it's likely some sort of rubber prop head. When he pulls the second pin out, the camera is in almost the exact same position, and he appears to pull the second pin out of the exact same spot, so it's likely just two different takes of the exact same effect.

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Revealing mistake: When Pinhead is walking into the church, the stained-glass windows start to explode. In several of the close-up shots, you can see the supposedly stone walls of the church "wobble" as the windows explode, revealing they're just painted set walls.

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Revealing mistake: When Joey sees the man's head explode in the hospital at the beginning of the film, pay attention. You can tell that the head was sculpted out of rigid foam (likely something similar to Styrofoam), painted, filled with fake blood, and then blown up. What gives it away is that you can see some of the unpainted white foam on some of the "chunks" of his head.

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2nd Aug 2024

Chucky (2021)

Final Destination - S3-E8

Revealing mistake: The gun that Wendall Wilkins pulls on the kids during the climax of the episode is noticeably a fake prop gun. If you look, you can tell that the barrel is not hollow, but is just a solid piece with a circular indent on the end. It's most noticeable when he says "Hail, Damballa!"

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

Chucky Actually - S2-E8

Revealing mistake: After the credits, we see a wideshot of a snowy Hackensack, but the snow is just a digital overlay, since it only seems to be falling directly in front of camera and nowhere else in the shot.

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

Goin' to the Chapel - S2-E7

Revealing mistake: In the final shot of Father Bryce exploding, where we see his head falling back down, it seems to hit and bounce off something that isn't there. Likely it bounced off some sort-of rigging that was painted out digitally.

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

Goin' to the Chapel - S2-E7

Revealing mistake: When Father Bryce explodes, the second shot looks incredibly unnatural. Much of the blood and pieces sort of vanish, and the lighting doesn't quite match, revealing it's some sort of added effect.

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

Goin' to the Chapel - S2-E7

Revealing mistake: When the doll, Jennifer, gets hit by the truck, you can see pieces of the metal armature and wires sticking out of some of the bits and pieces that were used to make the doll stand up. You can also briefly see that Jennifer goes from looking at the truck to looking forward between cuts, but it goes by quick and is hard to see. Slow motion helps but isn't required.

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

He Is Risen Indeed - S2-E6

Revealing mistake: When Kyle puts her glasses and prosthetic ear back on, when she turns and looks at Nica, you can ever-so-slightly see the prosthetic ear sticking in her hair since it's just an effect and wouldn't actually go back into place like a real prosthetic. You see it on and off throughout the rest of the scene, and briefly at one point can even see that it's being pushed out by her real ear.

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

Death on Denial - S2-E4

Revealing mistake: When Nica goes up the ramp and into the truck, her dress is bunched up, revealing her legs are hidden inside (she's supposed to have had her legs chopped off). Additionally, you can see that a blur has been added over Nica's face to mask the fact it's a stunt-person doing it.

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1st Mar 2024

Chucky (2021)

Death on Denial - S2-E4

Revealing mistake: When Nica is escaping, there's a dramatic shot from behind where she comes from over the camera, lands, and zooms away. For a split second, you can see actress Fiona Dourif's hands covered in black gloves as she's spinning the wheels on the wheelchair. Nica's arms have been chopped off and replaced by prosthetic arms with hook hands but they shot the scene with Dourif wearing black gloves underneath. The camera happened to catch them in this one shot.

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