Continuity mistake: When Sid and Billy make out and talk about Meg Ryan and other kinds of movies, their hands go on and off the back of their heads between shots. (01:11:00)
Sammo
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: The killer is holding the knife he uses to cut Tatum at an angle that changes between shots when he's threatening her. (01:06:25)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: In the garage scene, Tatum grabs 5 bottles of beer. She initially has 4 of them in her right hand, a single one in her left, and in fact she can easily reach the fridge door and close it with that hand. New shot, and she is not closing the door anymore with her left hand, suddenly busy with the other bottles, and she has to use her foot. (01:05:05)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Gale makes her entrance in the room with all the teenagers at the party, look at her position in particular in relation with Matthew Lillard; she wouldn't pass Sidney by in the spot when it happens, and she approaches him in different positions. (01:03:50)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: At the party, Randy asks (with a weird "yeeeeh!" that appears to be dubbed over) how many "hellraisers" are there. Matthew Lillard points at Rose McGowan two times in two different shots and not with the same hand either. (01:02:55)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: Kenny passes the camera to Gale as she fetches the coat. The hand he used to slip her the camera joins the other hand on top of a plastic case, but in the next shot his right arm is again lowered. (01:02:45)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: Gale and her crewmember just arrived at the party location. He asks if they have been spotted, she says no, and he then sinks back into the van to fetch the equipment. The shot changes and he completely turned around. (01:02:05)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Randy shouts overenthusiastically that there's a simple formula to the murders, the extras in the background change position in the next shot when there's a whole shot dedicated to their reaction. (00:56:45)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: In the close-up when she tells Sid not to 'freak yourself out' because they have a long night ahead, the light on Tatum is wildly different from the rest of the scene. (00:54:30)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: On Sidney's porch, Tatum tells her that maybe her mother was having in fact an affair; in that wide angle her left pigtail is behind her shoulder, but in the close-up it is in front. (00:53:30)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: During the whole bathroom scene the trash bin by the exit door is oriented parallel to the wall or perpendicular. The mistake can already be spotted early in the scene when the cheerleader is berating Sidney, but it is much easier to notice it at the very end not just because there are multiple consecutive shots from different angles, but also because to make possible for Sid to collide with the bin as she slides across the floor, the bin has been placed almost two feet away from the wall. (00:46:30)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: When some goof runs around the corridors of the school screaming, Neve Campbell's hair changes position over her shoulders between shots. (00:42:25)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: Gale realised that Cotton is innocent, and she talks about it to the cameraman. In that part of the scene, the sun is on Kenny at a different angle in different camera angles (look at the reflection of the rays in his hair and jacket). (00:41:55)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Sidney walks towards Gale's van to talk to her the day after she socked her, she passes by the same two students in two shots. (00:40:00)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: Sidney's right hand is in a different position in the two shots that happen when Tatum's mother tells her that there's someone at the phone for her. (00:37:30)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: Inside Tatum's bedroom, Dewey tosses Sidney an ice pack for her sore hand. Look at Rose McGowan's left hand; she's holding the plush bunny in a different spot between shots. (00:37:00)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Sidney punches Gale in the face, she flies back against her cameraman that catches her putting his hand on her side under the armpit. In the next shot Kenny's hand is on the upper arm, and Gale is also already holding her cheek. (00:36:35)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Gale Weathers 'interviews' Sidney in the back alley, the microphone is turned at different angles between shots. (00:36:30)
6th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: Tatum is growing impatient while Sidney is sitting in the police station waiting to be released, and she hurries her brother. In this sequence there is a blatant lack of continuity whenever the editing switches to reverse shots, as Rose McGowan's hand and Neve Campbell's movements don't match between angles. (00:35:25)
4th Feb 2022
Scream (1996)
Continuity mistake: The costume of Ghostface/Father Death is stuffed inside the plastic bag in two different ways in the shots when Sheriff Burke is checking it out - look at the bits coming out in the close-up. (00:35:05)
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