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Firestarter (1984) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When he first visits Charlie in quarantine, Captain Hollister removes his code-key badge twice as he prepares to leave the room.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Rainbird is engulfed in flames and is thrown across the barn, you can see the wire that is pulling him.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Charlie sends the water valve flying across the barn during her confrontation with Rainbird, you can see the wire pulling it into the side of the barn.
  
  

• Continuity: In the scenes where Rainbird plays "John, the friendly orderly" the eye-patch he wears as part of his disguise is in some "John" scenes, but not others.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cap Hollister is first in the room with Charlie, the door behind him is open over his left shoulder after he had closed it. Then when the camera shot changes again the door is closed.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Charlie throws the three agents in silver fire suits out of the barn after setting them on fire, the wires used to pull them back are clearly visible as the barn door breaks.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where Charlie's abilities are being tested in the lab, she completely incinerates a cinder brick wall. Yet, the ice blocks do not boil until after she turns her attention to them. If the room is hot enough to warp stainless steel doors, wouldn't these ice blocks have been vaporized long before?
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When she sets the barn on fire you can clearly see a shiny "coating" that has been painted on the horse stalls to "control" the way the stall flames up.
  
  

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