Misery (1990)

◄ Misery (1990)

Audio/visual unsynchronised

When Paul takes the knife out of his arm sling there is the sound of the knife brushing against metal.
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Near the end, when Sheldon mistakenly thinks he has killed Annie, he crawls through the doorway over the broken champagne glass. However, we hear no sound of the broken glass dragging across the floor.
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Character error

When Paul is looking at Annie's scrapbook, her name in one of the news headlines reads "Anne M. Wilkes," but the accompanying photo gives her name as "Anne C. Wilkes."
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Continuity

Annie tells Paul she got the typewriter because it has no "N"; in one of the first scenes where he's typing, there is clearly an "n" in his writing, at the end of the movie, there is no "n".
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The soup changes from red to orange when Annie spills it on Paul.
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The typewriter lands upside down after Paul hits Annie with it, yet appears in the next shot right side up.
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In the scene where Paul gets the knife, an exterior shot of Annie's house is shown and her Jeep is already parked next to the house, even though in a later shot her headlights flash through Paul's window as Annie pulls up to her house.
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Near the end, when Paul fights Annie he makes her bleed by putting his fingers in her eyes but in the next shot when she's on the floor after he has punched her, there is no blood under her eyes.
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The Sheriff places a Post-it note about Paul Sheldon on his board and the note is seen in three different spots over the course of three consecutive shots.
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When Paul types "what else was there...?", it is on one line in the close-up but two separate lines when he writes "The End".
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When Annie is shaving Paul's face, the areas of shaving cream change without anyone altering them.
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At the end of the movie, when Paul is talking to his manager, the rose in the vase changes during shots.
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When burning book gets out of control, a flaming bit of paper wafts up to the curtains and starts burning them, yet Annie never notices or puts it out. Later the curtains are just fine.
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After the search in the snow slope where he fails to see the overturned car, Buster comes back to his car there is a lot less snow on the road.
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When Annie shoots the Sheriff toward the end of the movie, he falls down the stairs, face first, and stops partway down. However, Annie immediately begins to speak to Paul and heads down the steps, walking where the corpse would have been. There's also no blood left behind from the gaping wound in his chest.
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When dining with Annie, Paul spills a few drops when pouring wine. The stains are visible, but in the next shot they are gone.
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Annie discovers that Paul left the bedroom as she notices the misplacement of the penguin ornament. However during the dinner scene, which takes place after the misplacement, and before she notices, the penguin can be clearly observed facing the correct way.
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Crew or equipment visible

When Paul is in the kitchen for the first time, a crewmember is reflected in the corner of the stove, during the close-up of the knives.
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Factual errors

Twice Paul Sheldon's car is referred to as a 1965 Ford Mustang, but the car he actually drives is a 1966.
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Revealing mistakes

There is an obvious "dummy" in Annie's place in the climactic fight scene with the typewriter.
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In the scrapbook paragraphs in many of the clippings are repeated several times.
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In exterior shots the house, the amount of snow on top the house never changes, despite several scenes in which it is drenched in rain.
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When Annie flicks through Paul's untitled manuscript when it is on the grill, it is revealed that a page of text is actually a review of Cameron Crowe's Say Anything..., which was released as "Misery" was filming.
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Spoilers

The goof below may give away important plot points.

Continuity

In the scene where Annie kills the sheriff, as she walks down the stairs, there are several close-ups of Paul that show a white box with "Clearly Canadian" (the beverage) written on it. There is a bag covering most of the "Clearly" lettering. The box is located to the right. However, when Annie returns with the gun and needle, the close-ups of Paul show a plain box without a bag.
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