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11th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Nell is introduced to her room there is a vase with flowers on the right bed sideboard. From there on, it's no longer there.

Correction: Nell is introduced to her room in the early morning when she arrives. The next scene where we see her room occurs at night-time, giving her plenty of time to move them off the sideboard if she wanted to use the sideboard for space (to put a drink of water down, for example,) or if she decided the flowers would look better somewhere else. This mistake would be valid if they disappaered between shots, however due to the huge time-space between the scenes, anything could have happened to them.

8th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When the four of them are running away from the nursery room, the doors on both sides of the hallway start closing. Watch very closely, as one crew member is seen on the other side of one of the doors.

Correction: I've watched this scene very closely many times, looking for this crewmember - no success.

7th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The amount of spilled blood changes on the glass that Mary has on her eye.

Correction: There are only two shots of her with the glass over her eye; one where they show Nell placing the glass over it (and in this shot the glass is clean.) Then two shots later as she walks out the room crying, there is blood on the glass, which is to be expected. There is no mistake here.

5th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: As Nell finds Dr Marrow's voice recorder, she presses play and hears exactly what she needed, although she never pressed the rewind button.

Correction: An unlikely convenience - not a movie mistake.

11th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When the children go call Nell in the middle of the night, neither of Nell's feet are covered. But without moving, in the next shot, Nell's left foot is covered.

Correction: Actually she does roll over and move, and there is one shot in between these shots, making it perfectly capable for the covers to slip over her foot and cover it.

12th Nov 2003

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (1996)

Corrected entry: Mike and the Bots are supposedly being forced to watch the film, "This Island Earth", but the version they watch has had quite a bit of material edited out for time.

Correction: This isn't a mistake. In the series they often edit many sections of the films out. One I remember particularly is a robot fight scene in the episode where they mocked 'Hobgoblins.'

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The ceiling is collapsing behind Nell, while Theo is just a few rooms away and doesn't hear anything.

Correction: It's established that the house controls itself, therefore it can monitor its sound it makes, making rooms soundproof; therefore others can't hear it. That's why when Theo and Nell were in the room, and Luke came along, they asked if he could hear it but he said no. The house is able to isolate all the loud bangs and noises it makes.

18th Sep 2004

Jumping Jack Flash (1986)

Corrected entry: When the man falls back because his chair broke everyone looks down to him. When they do, beside Terri and the blonde girl the boom mic is visible.

Correction: I saw no boom mike; however there is a black speaker attached to the bank's ceiling which is part of the bank's tannoy system, which you may have mistaken for a mike.

30th Dec 2004

Going Overboard (1989)

Corrected entry: Near the end of the film where the villains are trying to kidnap a girl, Adam, his friend and another man are hiding behind a wall and Adam is wearing a pink shirt. Then when they all run, his shirt changes to green.

Correction: This is the running gag of the whole scene and not a mistake. Schecky likes the pink shirt, Bob likes the green shirt. So between every single shot, the shirt changes from pink to green.

27th Aug 2001

Popcorn (1991)

Corrected entry: During one scene, before the main character is to go to the film festival, her mother tells her not to go. As she says this, a crewman can be seen walking across the porch in the background.

Correction: No, this is the reflection of the main character in the porch door, as she walks across the room.

11th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: The longer section where Nell parks her car isn't there on the painting in front of Mary when she's playing the piano.

Correction: An inaccurate painting is not a movie mistake. There could be many resons why the carport was not included in the painting, or it could be that the carport was built after the painting was completed.

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Luke hits with the candelabra on Hugh Crain's painting, notice the white-like scratches were already there.

Correction: There are not any scratches on the painting beforehand. When he gets up onto the table with the candelabra, he audibly swipes the painting twice, however he is out of shot when he does this. When it cuts to a closeup afterward, there are two scratches, just like you hear.

6th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Nell has a hallucination and sees Mrs. Crain hanging in the Greenhouse, look closely and you can see it is a make-up doll.

Correction: While they probably did use a doll or dummy, there is absolutely nothing which reveals that Mrs. Crain is a 'make-up doll.' I watched this scene, and was quite impressed by how real looking the dummy they used is.

7th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: While Luke is putting plastic on the window, you can very briefly see a crewman outside.

Correction: I looked as hard as I can to find this crewmember, but all I could see were brown leaves blowing around. I'm very, very sure there's no crewman there.

11th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When the children call Nell in the middle of the night, she finds bloody footprints on the floor. When she follows the footprints with her eyes, some of them are on the wood floor, some are on the carpet. But when she actually follows them step by step, the carpet's ones are missing.

Correction: This is wrong. When Nell follows the bloody footprints with her eyes we see they go across the wooden floor, then across the carpet, and then back off of the carpet and along the wooden floor again. When she exits the room we only see a tiny part of the carpet, and you can see the bloody footprints alongside the carpet. This is because she has already passed the footprints that went across the carpet (off-camera).

15th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: Nell's car isn't seen in the carport in the first overhead shot of Hill House, in the first morning.

Correction: The car is parked behind the carport wall, so we cannot see it.

23rd Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: Strangely enough, neither Theo nor Eleanor noticed that everytime they were in the room corridor, there was smoke coming out of the floor.

Correction: Strangely enough, this is not a movie mistake, it's a character mistake.

7th Nov 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: Liam Neeson can't open the compartment in the fireplace not only because of the iron, but also because he is standing on the door!

Correction: I don't really find this a mistake. Yes, he has his foot on the iron door, but he can most probably tell, just by pulling the door upward, that it is stuck and will not budge. If the iron poker was NOT stopping the door from being able to be pulled up, then Dr. Marrow would probably just move his foot off of the iron door, because there is no force holding the door down.

1st Apr 2005

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: At the scene where Eleanor is alone in the huge room, some really big rock comes out of the area where the bones are buried. When a head swings through that area later on in the movie, she says "That's not what I saw." Did that huge rock just disappear? Where could such an enormous rock go?

Correction: We're talking about a huge haunted mansion here; if spirits can float through curtains, fountains can come to life and spit out blood, and stairs can make themselves collapse, I'm sure the huge object Nell saw, can disappear. And by the way, it wasn't a huge rock. By using slow-motion, I found out that it is in fact a huge, creepy statue.

10th Dec 2002

The Haunting (1999)

Corrected entry: When Luke goes to look for Theo, why does he leave through the doors of hell to the outside? Certainly she wouldn't be outside.

Correction: This mistake is dreadful. Luke exits the room through the doors of hell (and he probably doesn't know they're the doors of hell anyway - the girls never told him) - so please, help me out here - HOW is this a mistake. He's going to look for Theo - how would he know where she is? How do YOU know that she "certainly wouldn't be outside?"

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