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The Amityville Horror (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When the door in the basement opens, George appears with a pump action shotgun. He cocks the shotgun, loading the chamber with a live round. As he chases Kathy and the children through the house, he cocks the action again, which would eject the previously loaded shell, and no shell was ejected.
  
  
• Continuity: At one point the Lutzes are in the kitchen and the refrigerator magnets read "Home Sweet Home". In a rage George knocks the letters down. In the next shot, the letters spelling out "Home" are visible in their original position.
  
  
• Continuity: When George is making scrambled eggs, the skillet on the stove has egg dripping all over the sides of the pan but when he picks up the skillet it's totally clean.
  
  

• Continuity: When George falls from the house when he is chasing Kathie, he gets really dirty, then when them take him into the boat he is totally clean.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: There is a shot of the whole house from the outside and you can see a camera on its track run the whole length of the house.
  
  
• Anachronisms: After George visits the doctor, while him and his wife are driving through town, you can see a Starbucks Coffee outlet in the background. The movie takes place in the 1970s. Starbucks did not expand nationwide until the late 1980s.
  
  
• Factual errors: The actual address of the house when the Lutz family moved in was 112 Ocean Avenue. When George and Kathleen visit the house for the first time, the address is 412 Ocean Avenue.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bedroom when we first see Jodie in the rocking chair, Chelsea places her index finger over her lips, indicating she is whispering to her new friend Jodie. In the next shot, she puts her finger back down to her lap, but then we see her finger back on her lips and places them down a second time.
  
  
• Continuity: When George is chopping logs and Billy has to hold them, Billy sets up a second log without bark around it. In the next shot when George splits it, it has bark around it.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While the realtor is showing the Lutz's one of the bedrooms she looks back to see Jodie in the hallway. Only, when she looks over she's in the living room, then when she turns back around she's back in the bedroom with the Lutz's.
  
  
• Continuity: When George is chopping wood and Billy is holding the second log, George swings the axe back, and when he's swinging the axe at the log, that Billy is holding, he doesn't have the axe on his hands. The axe reappears when he chops the log.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kathy and the kids are getting down from the roof after being chased by George, we can see Billy, Chelsea and Kathy get to the stairs in that order, leaving only Michael still on the roof. In the next shot Kathy ask Chelsea to jump because she's on the roof again with Michael.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When George kills the dog he leaves the ax in the boathouse, however, when he is chasing Kathy and the children, the ax is back in the log, where he left it previously.
  
  

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