- Revealing mistakes: After Reggie makes the physical connection between the two nodes on the gateway, he falls backward onto the floor. In the letterbox edition, the ropes used to pull him back toward the gateway are briefly visible as he falls.
- Continuity: When Mike pulls the car up the driveway, when he pulls the lever his pants are blue, but when he steps out, his pants are brown.
- Crew or equipment visible: When The Tall Man breaks down the door of Mike's house, at the bottom of the door, a crew person's feet are visible running and pushing the door.
- Revealing mistakes: When the door slams on The Tall Man's fingers, you can clearly tell that no fingers are really sticking out of the door.
- Revealing mistakes: When the Tall Man falls in the pit and grabs onto the sides, the ground around the pit moves.
- Revealing mistakes: If the pit that the tall man falls into at the end of the film is, as Jodie says "1,000 feet straight down", how is it that such a small amount of rocks and boulders fill the pit up to the top?
- Continuity: The Volkswagon originally faces the overturned ice cream truck, but when Mike breaks through the back window and the car takes off, the ice cream truck has disappeared.
- Continuity: When the Mike sees the Tall Man at the end of the movie, the Tall Man's hair is shorter than it has been throughout the rest of the film.
- Revealing mistakes: You can see the stick making the finger move when its in the box.
- Continuity: When Mike is trapped in the Tall Man's hearse, he shoots at the right rear tire to make it crash, but the left rear tire is shown blowing off of the car.
- Revealing mistakes: When the finger-turned-bug flies out of the garbage disposal and passes Reggie's head, the string used to pull the bug is visible.
- Revealing mistakes: When the flying sphere hits the caretaker in the forehead, you can see wires in the front that's holding it up. Don Coscarelli says in the DVD commentary that it was a reverse shot where the ball was actually pulled away, thus revealing the wires.
- Revealing mistakes: In the car chase, Mike shouts that there is no one driving the car behind them, however some poor lighting reveals a tall man driving the car.
- Continuity: In the scene where Mike is hiding in the casket in the mortuary display room, we see him peek out from under the partially raised lid of the casket, with his Bic lighter resting on the side of the casket. An immediate cut to a longer shot from above shows Mike raising the lid the rest of the way and starting to climb out, but as he raises his right arm from inside the casket we see that the Bic lighter is clenched in his right hand.
- Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie when Mike is joy riding on his motorcycle through the cemetery, the tracks of the trailer towing the motorcycle are visible in the grass behind him.
- Continuity: The length of The Tall Man's finger is longer in the wooden box than when it was originally severed.
- Continuity: While the Caretaker is being drilled by the flying ball it shoots a large stream of blood. Then the camera angle changes and we see the floor there is no blood.
- Continuity: (At 13:00) Mike crashes his dirt bike from a side angle but in the second shot, the bike goes from flying upside down to dead still. The bike was obviously just sitting there in the next angle while Mike jumps into the edit.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: When Mike escapes the caretaker's grasp by biting his arm, the wound bleeds heavily. When the camera cuts to Mike again after the caretaker is killed by the sphere, there is no blood on his face.
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