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• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Sally talking on the phone when she is calling the other mothers.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally and Gillian drag Jimmy into the house and over to the kitchen table, it has bowls and towels on it. In the next shot, when they lift him up onto the table, the table has nothing on it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sally and Gilly drag Jimmy into the house and the door hits him in the head, you can clearly see him blink.
  
  

• Factual errors: The end credits misspell the name of the town of Coupeville, Washington (whom the producers thank). They leave off the first "e".
  
  
• Continuity: After placing the boyfriend on the table, Gillian unbuttons his shirt and cuts his undershirt. In the next shot of the boyfriend, his undershirt is uncut and shirt is buttoned up.
  
  
• Continuity: Hallet tucks the letter into his pocket twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When in his room with Sally, Gary Hallet takes off his jacket twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When the women gather for the circle, in the first shot Sally is standing next to Aunt Jet. In the next and subsequent shots Sally is standing next to Aunt Frances.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally is outside cutting down the rose bush, her jeans have dirt marks on the knees. When she goes inside to get her sister, her jeans are clean.
  
  
• Continuity: In the garden, when Officer Hallet and Sally first meet, Sally is wearing a watch on her left wrist. When Sally looks at Officer Hallet's badge we can see her reflection, and she is not wearing the watch. When the scene continues she is wearing the watch again.
  
  
• Continuity: Officer Hallet is supposed to have one green and one blue eye. However, the moment Sally notices this is the only moment it happens. During the rest of the movie, both eyes are blue.
  
  
• Continuity: The close-up of the spinning stir stick shows Sally covering it with her left hand. In the next shot, she is hiding it with her right hand.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After burying Jimmy the sisters go back towards the house with their shovels, there is a scraping noise when the shovels drag against the ground. A few seconds later, the sound is still there yet both of their shovels are off the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: While standing in the house when Officer Hallet first comes to talk to the sisters, he notices a cut on Sally's collarbone, complete with dripping blood, The next day, there's not even a scratch.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Gillian goes to get the whipped cream to write on Jimmy's chest, you can see him breathing.
  
  
• Continuity: During the opening sequence, Maria's hanging rope changes lengths. And the tightness of the rope around her neck also changes after she lands.
  
  
• Continuity: When the witches jump off the roof, they are in a different order when they land than when they were on the roof.
  
  
• Factual errors: The night of the murder, there are several very prominent shots of (and verbal references to) a full moon. Only four evenings later, as the murder is being investigated, Sally looks out at a very thin first-quarter crescent moon. In reality, such a moon would not appear until more than two weeks after a full moon.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally and Gary are talking in his motel room he is wearing a plaid shirt. After she leaves and we see him looking out the window he is wearing a white shirt.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the coven of women are attempting to exorcise Jimmy's spirit, the equipment which causes the pictures on the wall to move (the ones which the children supposedly removed prior to this scene) is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: When all the witches are jumping off of the roof in the end of the movie, you can see one's feet step right up to the edge of the roof, and an iron ledge. Yet when the camera shows them all from the front, they are clearly still behind a low iron barrier.
  
  
• Continuity: When the sisters cut their hands, Gillian hugs Sally and puts her hand flat on Sally's back. When she moves her hand there is no blood on the robe.
  
  
• Continuity: Officer Hallet comes for breakfast, and when Sally first comes down the stairs her hair is straight. However, in the next shot, and all subsequent shots, her hair is curly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally and Gary are in his room and they begin to make out, we hear Sally drop her keys, but when she leaves, she doesn't pick them up and she never gets them back.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gillian is driving to see Sally after the death of Sally's husband the lighting changes but the scenery doesn't.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Sally and Gillian are drinking tequila with the aunts, Sally grabs the bottle and we hear her ask "Where did this bottle come from" twice, but the first time her lips don't move. In the next shot they do.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Gillian is in the car before she goes to see Sally, she sings a song by Joni Mitchell. Gillian says "I would drink a 'piece' of you" even though the title and the words are "A Case of You".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end, when all the women are standing in a circle with brooms end to end, in one scene it shows the pictures on the wall bouncing around. One shot shows the wall going in and out, without the picture on it. You can see the obvious sheet rock, perfectly cut out to match the picture that's not there, going in and out.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sally is on her way to her store for the first time you can see her wearing a green dress with no socks. Although Sally is still wearing the green dress when she walks in the store, after she sees her children in the window she is wearing a white dress with flowers on it and socks.
  
  
• Continuity: We see two almost identical shots of the left side of Jimmy's head in his revival scene, one before they begin doing the mouth sound and one just after they begin chanting. In the first scene, Jimmy clearly has a cut or scrape on his left temple, and in the second one it's gone.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Sally is drawing the star on Jimmy's chest you can see the outline of the star in black before she covers it with whipped cream. This is not actually a goof, as Sally tells Gillian to "get something white to write on top of the star". Obviously one of them drew the star first as a guide.
  
  
• Continuity: During the kidnapping/murder scenes Gillian's make-up swings back and forth between running down her face and being perfectly applied.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where they are drinking tequila, and Gillian is asking about where they got it from, her braid moves from front to back over her shoulder several times with out her moving them.
  
  
• Continuity: When young Sally is making the spell she takes petals from different types of flowers and puts them into the bowl, but when she's out on the balcony and the petals fly up they are all the same.
  
  
• Continuity: When bringing the dead Jimmy into the house, they go the put him on the table. There are many items on the table, such as a white bowl, but in the next shot they disappear as they throw Jimmy onto the table.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Gillian first leaves, right before she and Sally cut their hands, she asks for her boyfriend's pocket knife. He clearly reaches for his pocket before she mentions what she needs.
  
  

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