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Audio/visual unsynchronised (6) |
Character error (4) |
Continuity (37) |
Crew or equipment visible (5) |
Errors in geography (1) |
Factual errors (3) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (1) |
Revealing mistakes (5) |
Spoilers (1)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Harold is talking about Michael's past, his lips are not moving as he says that Michael killed three nurses and a paramedic.
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When Myles is at the party in the office checking out the web broadcast, a guy and a girl bust in and intend to have sex there. What we hear the guy say doesn't match up with his mouth movements.
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When Freddy is watching Fist Of Fury he hears the doorbell and says something as he turns his head, but his mouth doesn't move.
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When Sara enters the large room with the meeting with Freddy, Jen comes up to her and says, "Sara," but her mouth doesn't move.
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At the start, Sara is driving her moped at the school. Jen arrives and asks, "Guess what?" Then she says, "We gotta find Rudy. Come on." When she says "Come on," her mouth doesn"t move.
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When Donna runs into Michael in the sewer, she says "Oh, shit," but a dubbed over scream is heard instead.
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Character error
When Harold, the man in the clown mask, gets the knife from Michael, he starts to tell the details of Michael's killing spree in the first two movies. He says that he killed three nurses and one paramedic, the same night, when in fact the body count was higher. It was four nurses, one being an aide, the doctor, a security guard and a marshall.
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In 'Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers', a doctor is looking over Michael's medical information. Michael's name is spelled as 'Michael M. Myers'. However, the mental patient at the beginning of this movie states that Michael's middle name is 'Adrian'.
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Harold says that Michael killed "3 nurses and a paramedic that night." In reality, it was actually four nurses (Karen, Janet, Jill, and Mrs. Alves).
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When Harold - the patient who knows all about serial killers - is taken in he says John Wayne Gacy died May 7th 1998. John Wayne Gacy was put to death on May 10, 1994.
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Continuity
At the house party, the guest in the red coat is in the room when everyone hears the scream and they have to turn down the volume. The next scene at the party shows the guy in the red coat walking in and asking what's going on.
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The position of Freddie Harris' hair when he is sitting on the floor in the final fight scene with Michael Myers.
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Because of all the re-shoots after principal photography had finished, hairstyles change throughout the film (especially Sara's)
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When at his house, the first crew member Michael kicks with a camera. He puts that camera on the ground, tripod closed and laying down. When the people first walk into the house they switch to a camera view that's up the stairs and you can see that the camera that was laying on the floor is now propped up against the wall.
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When Laurie hits Michael over the head with the lamp, when he walks through the door the lamp smashes. Then when Laurie drops the lamp and runs out of the room the lamp is not broken and is still lit.
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The blond girl has very thick black roots. She is decapitated. When Michael throws her head down the stairs, she is perfectly blonde, no roots.
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When Sara is driving up the school path on her moped there is a lonely girl sitting on a bench. In the next shot, she is gone.
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After Deckard receives the e-mail on his computer he writes about three lines below but about five seconds later when you see the computer screen he is just beginning the sentence on the first line.
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When the six enter the Myers' house, Sara walks through the doorway and nearly reaches the stairs. But about five seconds later she is just entering the doorway.
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When Freddy arrives at the Myers' house the sliding door at the side of the car is left open but after Sara sees Michael Myers at the window the door is shut.
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When you see Sara riding her moped up on the road on the way to the meeting with Freddy the sky is blue and dark but when you see her enter the door to the room you can see in the background sunlight coming in from the windows onto the walls.
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After Sara and Freddy walk down the stairs after Michael Myers is hung, the curtain on the door behind Sara changes between shots, even when they peek through it.
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Nora picks up her phone twice before she makes the call to Freddy in the garage, whilst Charlie is getting killed.
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After Sara receives a message saying that Michael Myers is still alive on her palm pilot Michael Myers stabs Freddy in his left shoulder but in the close-ups of the blade in his shoulder it is in his right shoulder.
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After Sara runs out of Michael Myers' bedroom window, he slices the bottom of her leg. But when she climbs up the roof there are no wounds.
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After Willie trips over his beheaded partner his torch is in his left hand but after Michael Myers slices his throat and falls down his torch is in his right hand.
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In the scene when Sara is looking through the bedroom closet the mannequin with the mask on falls on her and the head falls off but when Rudy comes in and lifts the mannequin back up the head is attached onto it.
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When Deckard is at the party he goes up to the opening doors and tries to sneak in. Inside you can just see a lamp and a few bronze pots on the floor but when he enters the room you can see lots and lots of furniture and objects in the room.
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In the scene after the fake skeleton breaks through the wall Donna puts her mahogany colored top back on. In a few seconds she kneels down to pick up her camera equipment from the floor without anything with her, but seconds later, when she grabs her camera gear, she has the small camera attached to her ear.
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At the start just after Willy sees his partner's head in the washing machine, he gets his throat cut and there is blood all over the knife. Later on when Michael is approaching Laurie's room, his knife just has blood on the tip, only halfway up the blade.
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Halfway through the film, we see Michael Myers walk into a room immediately followed by another Myers. Both are dressed nearly identically in a blue jumpsuit. But as soon as the first one turns around and we learn it's actually Freddie, the shot changes to Michael and back to him and he's wearing his jean jacket, seen in the rest of the movie.
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When Michael Myers is holding the tripod to impale the crewman, the length of the sharpened end changes in length and shape numerous times. First, it's wider and smaller. Then it's slightly longer and narrower. And when it's finally through the victim, it's long enough to go through the neck and into the adjacent wall.
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When Michael is walking towards Laurie's room in the sanitarium, the window on the door is yellow as if a light is on in the room. Then in the next shot it is blue as if a light was not on.
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Near the end of the film, Deckard is communicating to Sara's hand-held device where Michael Myers is in the house. When Deckard tells Sara to "GO NOW!", the text has changed from small digital text to large bold font and the screen has changed from green to white, similar to a large PC monitor.
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When Michael is walking along the corridor to Laurie's room, the knife is clean. In the next shot of his hand, we see a blood-covered knife.
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Donna (the redhead) hastily dons her sweater, sans bra, after her interrupted interlude with Jim in Michael's dungeon. Yet, seconds later, when impaled by the gate spike, she is obviously wearing her bra.
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At one point in the garage scene, Michael is lying down in a puddle of blood. However, as the camera shoots Michael's back as he approaches Sara (after he gets up), there is no fresh blood (if any at all) on the back of his suit.
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When Michael is climbing the steps of the hospital at the beginning of the movie, his hair is up and puffy, then when he reaches the roof, it's combed back.
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When Michael is chasing Laurie through the sanitarium, his hair is sticking up, but when he's on the roof a shot later shots later, his hair is combed back.
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When the trap door to the attic falls open, blood appears on Jenna's face between shots.
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The amount of blood on Jenna's face before and after she is beheaded.
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In the original Deckard ending, Michael goes from lying on the floor to being up tied up in the wires between shots.
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On the first e-mail exchange between Sara and Myles/Deckard, the screen display changes between shots on Myles/Deckard's computer
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At the beginning of the movie, Harold, the guy in the clown mask says that Michael killed four high school students in 1998 at the academy where Laurie worked. Actually, he only killed three people at the academy; two were students and one was a teacher. Other victims in that film were killed outside of the academy.
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Charlie's camera is fixed at a 90-degree angle on the tripod when Michael picks it up to stab him. The image showing on the screen should've been the ceiling, or at the very least Michael's image.
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When Michael impales Rudy to the door, he uses three kitchen knives. When he pushes the third knife through the door, the first two have disappeared.
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Bill's head camera is broken when Michael kills him. But later, it works again when he's hanging upside down from the attic stairs.
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Crew or equipment visible
After Michael hands Harold the knife, the camera is reflected in the window as it leaves the room.
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Just after the garage has burnt down the police arrive and if you look very closely on the windshield of the first you can faintly see a camera crane lowering down.
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When Michael Myers enters Harold's room at the institution and hands over the knife Harold says, "Michael Myers". If you look carefully on the wall on his right you can see shadows of camera equipment and wiring.
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When you see Freddy's black Voyager parked outside, a green Jeep passes by the car. If you look carefully at the reflection there is a large, high ceiling of a warehouse stage set.
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At the beginning, when Michael kills the first security guard in the basement, just before he dispatches the second one, you can see a crew member's arm reflected in a window hitting the light shade to keep it swinging.
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Errors in geography
When Sara is riding up to the 2400 Court Motel to see Freddie, the entire city of Vancouver can be seen in the distance behind her.
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Factual errors
When the rope pulls Micheal off the ground, he drops his knife. When Laurie looks at the knife it has little dots on the handle, but when she picks the knife up the dots are gone and the blood is different.
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The school email is listed as ".org", but it should be ".edu".
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
It's mentioned in this movie that Michael Myers lived under his house for 20 years, contradicting everything that happened in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5, and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; however, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later worked on a continuity where the later sequels were ignored, continuing instead from the end of Halloween II. This means, that in this continuity, Michael Myers could have been living under his house for two decades.
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Revealing mistakes
After Michael kills Donna by the gate post, her head is still moving a little after she is dead.
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After the hallway camera cuts out, it eventually comes back on the computer screen that Deckard is looking at. If you look at the landing and the stairway, the picture is reversed.
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In the beginning when they have the flash-back to H20, Michael knocks out the paramedic. As he is strangling him, the mask he is wearing is not the same mask from H20. It is the mask from Resurrection.
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Obvious stuntwoman in the garage when Sara Moyer slips in the puddle of blood and falls flat on her back.
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When Michael is hanged, there's an upward shot showing his body go limp. The roof of the stage can clearly be seen - rafters bathed in green light.
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Continuity
When Jen is decapitated, her severed head lands in front of the stairs. A few shots later when Sara returns to the same room, Jen's severed head has disappeared. However it can still be seen on one of the TV screens later in the movie.Share this
