- Continuity: There are several signs posted about the time of the prom, all of which say from 9 - 1. (One says 9 - 1 pm, which, of course, is incorrect.) Sue Snell asks the time at the family dinner on the night of the prom and is told that it is 8 o'clock. Shots immediately before and after the dinner scene show the prom going full swing, even though it is not scheduled to start for another hour. Additionally, it would still be light outside on May 25th at 8 pm.
- Factual errors: Stephen King's name is spelled "Steven King" in the trailer.
- Continuity: Norma has her hair styled at the salon in preparation for the prom. Immediately afterwards, she is back at the gym setting things up, with her hair in braids and wearing her baseball cap.
- Revealing mistakes: The wire of the very last knife that stabs Carrie's mother is visible for a brief moment.
- Continuity: Billy Nolan's car is seen briefly from behind, before Carrie rolls it, and the taillights are clearly those of a '67 Pontiac Firebird. However, when the car is overturned, it becomes a '67 Chevrolet Chevelle.
- Continuity: When Miss Collins begins calling the roll, Helen doesn't appear in the first shot of the girls. In the next shot, Helen is sitting next to Sue.
- Continuity: When Miss Collins begins calling the roll, the first shot reveals a girl dressed in dark blue sitting among several girls higher on the bleachers. In the next shot, she's sitting in the front row next to Helen. But in the shot after that, she's in her original place.
- Revealing mistakes: When Chris and Billy are in the car, Chris calls Billy a stupid shit and he slaps her cheek with the back of his hand. A loud sound is heard, but he clearly isn't actually hitting her hard.
- Continuity: Carrie's hair when she talks to Mrs. Collins on the bench.
- Continuity: When Miss Collins is questioning Sue and Tommy in her office, Tommy is initially sitting some distance from Sue on the bench. In subsequent shots he is closer to her, although he never moves.
- Boom mic visible: You can see the boom mic's shadow on Carrie's chest a few times while she is walking through her house after her prom killing spree.
- Factual errors: When Carrie washes the pig's blood off in her bathtub, it turns the bathwater pink. Blood makes water turn brownish-red, not pink. The "blood" used in the film was actually Karo Syrup mixed with food coloring, which actually would have turned the bathwater pink.
- Continuity: In the gym scene where the girls are told about getting detention or refusal of their prom tickets, Chris' lip gloss disappears and reappears. When she takes the gum out of her mouth she has lip gloss on. It then disappears and reappears as the scene goes on.
- Continuity: When Miss Collins is pacing in the principal's office after the shower incident, she pauses in front of his desk. Carrie's blood is visible on her shorts, making the principal uncomfortable. She then continues pacing around the office and the blood disappears. Although she is moving, her sweatshirt would not move that much as to cover all traces of the blood.
- Factual errors: At the beginning of the movie playing volleyball, the far side team has 6 players (one is Carrie) and the near side team has 7 players plus 1 additional player serving (out of camera range).
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the bucket of pig's blood falls, you hear the 'blood' spilling long after the bucket has emptied.
- Continuity: When the blood falls on Carrie, it really only hits the left side of her hair and her shoulders. In following shots, she is soaked in blood.
- Continuity: When the mirror shatters while Carrie is praying, it shatters into many small pieces but when the mother comes into the room and the mirror is fixed, it was only broken into a few large pieces.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: Chris is somehow able to give her boyfriend a blow job and talk to him at the same time, without her voice being distorted in the least.
- Continuity: After Carrie is covered in blood, her crown disappears between shots.
- Continuity: After Carrie returns home from the prom and goes upstairs to take a bath, a well-lit dressmaker's dummy is standing in the hall (positioned to obscure Margaret White, who is hiding behind it). But when Carrie leaves the bathroom, the dummy has disappeared.
- Revealing mistakes: After Carrie kills her mother with the flying knives, Margaret goes through her death throes and dies. But her body never moves, even after her death. Her body would sag, and the knives could not hold up her body.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Ms. Collins is calling attendance in the gym after the locker room incident, she begins to call out names sharply of those who are not listening to her. She stands in front of Edie McClurg's character and snaps "Katie!" but her character's name is Helen.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the movie, when Carrie pulls her mother into the closet after she has died, you can see the mother's feet moving under her nightgown.
- Continuity: SPOILER: When Carrie kills her mother using the kitchen implements, there are numerous stab wounds and blood stains. But when Carrie drags her lifeless mother into the closet, the blood stains are all gone.
- Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: In the final shot of the knives in Margaret White's body, you can quite clearly see one of the wires that the knives were "flown" on for the telekinesis effect.
- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the second-to-last scene (where Amy Irving lays flowers on Carrie's grave) to make it more "eerie", the shot was filmed backwards - then run in reverse in slow-mo - to give it a surreal effect. This is evidenced by a background automobile traversing the perpendicular intersection backwards, which the viewer can clearly observe as driving in reverse.
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