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Audio/visual unsynchronised (1) |
Character error (1) |
Continuity (10) |
Crew or equipment visible (2) |
Errors in geography (1) |
Factual errors (1) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (2) |
Revealing mistakes (3) |
Spoilers (8)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Molly and Oda Mae climb the ladder and walk the rafters, both Molly and Carl can be heard shouting, but neither moves their mouth.
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Character error
In the credits, Bruce Jarchow is credited as Lyle Furgeson, but the scene at his desk has a sign with the spelling of his name changed to Ferguson.
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Continuity
The wet clay coating Molly's and Sam's hands.
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When Sam is following Willie to his apartment, Willie opens up the door and after Sam goes through the door, it automatically closes, but when Carl visits Willie, the door remains open.
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When Sam is on the train, he is pushed violently through the rails, cabin doors, but hits his head on the last cart.
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When Ode Mae first goes to see Molly she is wearing one pair of shoes; as she turns the corner her shoes have changed colors.
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When Sam is shot and Molly is holding him, her sleeves are covered in blood. Later, at the police station her sleeves are clean.
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After Oda Mae gives away the check, she says goodbye to Sam and we see a group of extras crossing the street. When the angle switches to the other side of the street, we see one of the same extras (African American lady, box cut hair) crossing the street again.
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When Sam is chasing Willie through the apartment and Willie hides in the bathroom, you can see the shower curtain. When they show Willie on the reflection of the mirror, is a different shower curtain.
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When the Subway Ghost kicks the cigarette vending machine in anger, you can clearly see that the rows of cigarettes were rigged to go straight down and out the chute, which would not occur simply because the glass was broken. Also, there were also many more packs of cigarettes on the ground than could have come out of the machine, and were obviously pre-placed.
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When Sam and Molly were fooling around with the pottery wheel, they, quite naturally, had clay all over their hands and up to, and even above, their elbows. In the immediately following love scene, however, their hands and arms are squeaky clean.
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When the ghost of Orlando enters Oda Mae's body, he speaks to his widow Ortisha as if it's the first time he's seen her with the new hair color but he was standing alongside the séance and fully able to see Ortisha all the while.
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Crew or equipment visible
Camera and TV monitor can be seen in the bottom of the mirror in the move-in scene. Stage light equipment can be seen in the mirror soon after Carl passes in front of it.
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When Carl is preparing the account for "Rita Miller", the camera and operator are reflected in the computer screen.
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Errors in geography
We are told that Willie Lopez lives in Prospect Place. But when we see him go home when Sam follows, he gets off the J train in Bushwick. Also there is no J train at Franklin St in downtown Manhattan. You would have to take the 1 train.
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Factual errors
With the closing credits the spelling of "Cemetery Ghost" is wrong. The credits spell it as Cemetary Ghost, the correct spelling should be CEMETERY.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
There are a number of inconsistencies concerning Sam touching things when his hands should have gone through. For example, when Sam is in the hospital after his murder he gets out of the chair by grabbing hold of the arm-rests to push himself up out of the chair. However, these could be explained that those things he is trying to intentionally manipulate require concentration, but things that he's used to doing or doing without thought don't require concentration at all as they are instinctively easy.
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In the exchange between Molly and Lyle the bank officer, she asks him if that was Oda Mae, and wanted to know what business they had just done. Lyle tells Molly her name (Rita Miller) and said that she was closing an account. By federal law, bank personnel can never discuss the details of one customer's transaction or identity with another. However, Lyle is a "social moron," very likely to have forgotten or not cared enough about the law to keep himself from discussing it with Molly, or intently believing that, because Sam was a bank employee, he could freely discuss it with Molly without fear.
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Revealing mistakes
When Willie is fighting with Sam just prior to shooting him you can see that the gun Willie is using (Walther PPK or similar clone) is in the safe position (i.e. manual safety/decocker is vertical rather than horizontal). Such a gun should not fire.
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When "Oda Mae" and "Molly" are straddling the rafters, they are obviously stunt doubles.
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In the very end when Sam is ascending into the light, the 1990s green screen technology is very obvious around the edges of his body.
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Spoilers
Continuity
The length and distribution of Molly's bangs changes in the last scene with Sam.Share this
Continuity
When Carl pins Oda Mae down toward the end and he has the gun on her, he cocks the pistol 3 or 4 times as he threatens to shoot her.Share this
Continuity
When Carl throws Molly into the rubbish bins on the rooftop, the bins fall over twice.Share this
Continuity
After Sam is shot, when he's running after the shooter, we hear his footsteps; we later discover that it was his ghost chasing the killer, and of course the ghost would not have audible footsteps.Share this
Continuity
When Willie is hit by the vehicle he lands on the ground; however, in the next scene his body is lying on the hood of the vehicle.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When Willie is hit by the car, his body is split in two, the spirit body that we see fall on the street, and the physical body lying on the car that the people run to help.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When Carl has the knife in Molly's kitchen, it visibly wobbles and is clearly made of rubber. However, if you look closely you can see it is simply shaking, as Carl is beyond terrified at realizing Sam's ghost is real.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Carl is being dragged away by the shadows, the wires that are helping him float are visible.Share this
