- Miscellaneous: It takes at least 4 months to plant, cultivate and harvest sunflowers, yet Ben never ages throughout the movie.
- Miscellaneous: The basement door changes locations several times within the film, most significantly appearing at the end of a hallway during a haunting scene and along a hallway wall in all others.
- Factual errors: In the film they are harvesting sunflowers when they are full bloom. Sunflowers can only be harvested in the winter when they are fully black
- Continuity: When Jess is attacked in the basement, she's wearing work boots and when she runs out on the porch and goes back inside and slides down to the floor she's wearing sneakers.
- Continuity: After Jess encounters the girl in the basement and runs outside, she comes back inside and slides down the door. The doorknob is clearly missing from the door.
- Errors in geography: Roy says he is from Turek County, there isn't a Turek county in North Dakota or any of the states next to ND.
- Factual errors: Sunflowers are harvested after they have gone dry and hang heads down, like mentioned. However, they are harvested with regular combines that are used to harvest wheat, rye, or corn, and not a windrower that is used for putting up hay.
- Continuity: When Roy is getting the bags of seed out of the truck, he picks one up and turns, only to find the banker standing there. After they finish talking, he turns and takes another bag out of the truck when he should have still been holding the first one.
- Continuity: When Jess and her Dad go into town to get sunflower seeds for planting, they pull in to the feed store and there is mud "sprayed" evenly on the sides of the vehicle, toward the bottom third. Mud usually patterns around the wheel wells and totally up the back side of the vehicle in this rural environment, not evenly distributed. When they arrive back at the house the vehicle has no mud splatters on it.
- Continuity: When Jess and her Dad arrive at the feed store the vehicles shows a trailer hitch with ball firmly attached (for towing trailers). When they arrive back at home the vehicle has no trailer hitch ball.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Roy is removing the sunflower seed bags from the back of the Jeep, you can see the crows on the hatchback of the vehicle with chords tied to their legs.
- Continuity: The first time Jess goes to the feed store, the first time we see the bulletin board there is no blood drive notice on it, after she goes to look at it, the blood drive notice has appeared.
- Continuity: The teddy bear on Jess' bed changes positions between shots.
- Continuity: When Denise is scrubbing the stain on the wall, the amount she has scrubbed, and the soapy water on the wall, is inconsistent between shots.
- Continuity: When Ben points out the window, as his mom questions him, the curtain changes from closed/open/closed.
- Continuity: When Ben is standing at the cellar door, in one shot the fingermarks in the floorboards are gone.
- Continuity: When Ben is sitting at his table eating, the mom is washing dishes. In the first shot of her washing the plate the water is dark brown like coffee. Ben gets up and walks off and when it goes back to her washing dishes the water is clear.
- Continuity: When Roy informs Jess that the doctor said her wounds looked self-inflicted, he refers to the doctor as a "he". The doctor which said that was a woman.
- Errors in geography: The ambulance that takes Jess to the hospital has "Balcarres EMS Prairie Ambulance" on the side of it. Balcarres is in Saskatchewan, Canada and located over 150 miles north of the North Dakota-Saskatchewan border. It's not realistic that an ambulance that far away would transport her to the hospital.
- Revealing mistakes: When Roy dashes to the hall to run upstairs, he braces himself on the wall before beginning his climb. The wall obviously moves when he hits it.
- Continuity: Jess puts a wooden board in front of the door, but when John breaks down the door there is no board there.
- Plot holes: The people in the area believe that the Rollins "just up and left", however surely they would have noticed that John Rollins was still in town? Despite going under the name John Burwell and growing a ponytail, he is still clearly the same person; as we see when Jess recognizes him from a photo.
- Continuity: After Denise runs into the cellar to escape John she locks the door behind her, but when Jess runs from John into the cellar the door is unlocked again.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: The stair railing leading upstairs is different after the haunting scene that destroys most of the house then changes back to the original railing again in a later scene.
- Plot holes: SPOILER: As messengers of the dead, if the crows knew what he did, why would they not attack Burwell every time he was outside without his gun?
- Continuity: SPOILER: When Jess looks at the bulletin board in the feed store, the first time we see it, the picture of the Rollins family is below a picture of a house. When we go to the close-up, the picture of the house is no longer there (the picture that was above it is now in it's place) and now there is a notice for a blood drive taped up that conveniently covers up John's face.
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