Continuity mistake: When David confronts "Ramon", at first he shoots the beast (somehow hurting him more than anyone could do throughout the whole movie, even Kelly who practically shot him in the mouth) a few times, gun in the right hand, flashlight in the left hand. He runs then away, gun in the left, flashlight in the right. They swap again later. (01:20:00)
Sammo
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: The guy that lies dead next to the crushed car at the party has his head tucked more or less closely under the right arm depending on the camera angle. (01:17:55)
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: During the assault on the car, the vehicle rocks violently in some shots, only to appear perfectly still when it cuts from passenger to driver and vice versa. (01:16:50)
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: After the large mudprint of "Ramon" has been found, David has to make his way back from the lake through a crowd of street vendors and weirdos in general spurred by the presence of the big animal. Just before he meets a bald guy that is carting several plush crocodiles, there's some young fella in a blue and red checkered shirt. David walks past this group and in the next shot after a while he runs in the shirt guy again. (00:49:25)
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Kelly grabs his coworker's butt, he does it with the left hand in the Jaws-like POV, but then it turns out he's using the right hand and the left hand is the one holding the flashlight. (00:25:00)
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the boss of the laboratory sits on the desk, he moves just the lamp, but the board has moved next to the lighter as well. (00:13:55)
10th May 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: Luke Gutchel is at the evil pharmaceutical company. The scientist tells him he wants 'puppies'; it cuts away on him a moment, and the garbage bag has changed position on the cart. (00:08:25)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Marisa tries to save the hero by telling an old lady to move her car, the window is all the way down looking in, an inch raised looking out. (01:23:05)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When David opens the manhole to get in the sewers for the last time for the big finale, he is wearing the same blue sneakers he was wearing at the hospital, but as he goes down the ladder he is wearing black boots. (01:19:10)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: The gatekeeper lets Marisa and David in; the position of his clipboard changes between shots, and so does the position of the other hand, quite more noticeably so since it's off the button column, then on it suddenly again. (01:17:50)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: In the humorous bit with Marisa showing up at the gates of the party, her hand is on the window frame or on the steering wheel depending on the camera angle. (01:17:35)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: The woman next to Slade when he's at the BBQ at the party holds her glass up, down, up in different shots. (01:14:40)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the party, Mr. Slade has a bunch of steak on the grill, but just two of them when he turns towards the mayor with an angry face. (01:14:30)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: At the sour ending of their 'date', Marisa throws a bunch of bills on the table. David's shadow on the wall moves between shots, but he did not. (01:07:45)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Marisa Kendall talks with her obviously arteriosclerotic mother on the phone, she holds the receiver in different ways between shots. (00:59:45)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: A guy tries to sell a baby alligator to the protagonist. He approaches it holding the lid of the shoebox in his right hand, but in the reverse shot he's holding it in the left hand. (00:49:40)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the kid tries to pry the phone off his drunk mother's hands before leaving to challenge it to a knife fight, the hand position on the cord changes between shots. (00:46:00)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: David is looking at the book about alligators; he holds it with the fingers at the top corner, but in the reverse shot the fingers are not visible in that spot. (00:35:00)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: When the slimeball reporter is listening to an all-too-chatty nurse, he is leaning against his own hand which is in a different position in the reverse shot. (00:32:20)
28th Mar 2022
Alligator (1980)
Continuity mistake: David's boss is driving him after the visit to the herpetologist. In the middle of the conversation the passenger's window goes from all the way up to halfway open and back to closed again. (00:30:50)
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