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The Fog (1980) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When one of the sailors peers out of the ship's window for a fog bank in the background, the superimposed fog appears over the edges of the window.
  
  
• Continuity: In the coroners office, Elizabeth's hair is shorter than it is in the rest of the movie, and she's wearing sneakers as opposed to her boots
  
  
• Continuity: When Stevie hears the driftwood speak in her studio, it is 5:35. When it bursts into flames and she starts to put the fire out, it is 5:40. When she is done, it is 5:35 again.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: When Nick (at the bar) is on the phone with Stevie telling her about the SeaGrass, there is a cutaway to the lighthouse. To the left you can see a crew member motioning for more fog, and then more fog rolls by him.
  
  
• Continuity: Elizabeth takes off her gloves when she first gets into Nick's truck near the beginning of the film. When the windshield shatters and Nick is struggling to control the truck, she is wearing the gloves again in a few very quick shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the ghosts start to break into the church you see them punching the windows and you hear the glass break and shatter but yet no shards of glass fall when the windows are broken.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The tape recorder starts to slow down before the salt water from the driftwood even touches it.
  
  
• Anachronisms: As Father Malone flips through his ancestor's journal, you can momentarily see obscenities unrelated to the story written on the preceding page.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The light used to illuminate the inside of Nick's truck is visible on the dashboard when the truck turns to go to the weather station.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nick and Elizabeth go to the dock to meet The Seagrass the weather is overcast and looks like its going to rain. In the very next shot we see Mrs Williams and her assistant organizing the 100th anniversary of Antonio Bay and it is clear blue skies and looks very much like a summer day.
  
  
• Continuity: When we hear Stevie say, "It's 1:00," we are looking at Nick's clock radio. His clock says 1:40.
  
  
• Factual errors: Whenever Nick calls Stevie at the radio station, the phone rings. The phones in the booth of a radio station don't ring. They light up. Otherwise every time the someone called the station when the microphone was open, listeners would hear the phone ring.
  
  
• Continuity: After her assistant agrees to drive her home after the town birthday celebration, Mrs. Williams is correctly addressed as Kathy even though her character's name was given earlier as Nancy.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the fog cuts the telephone communication between KAB and the sheriff, the lines shown as being cut are actually the power lines, not the telephone cable.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As Stevie is describing the movement of Fog, at first she says it is moving southeast along the coast, but then in the next sentence she says it is moving southwest.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the ghosts break through the windows in the church, some of the mutton bars break away but not the glass between them. Instead of being made up of separate panes as those of that period would be, they seem to be solid sheets.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Father Malone claims the diary he reads was written by his grandfather, also Father Malone. Priests do not marry, nor do they have children.
  
  

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