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• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Christine is running from the killer, she locks herself in a room. The killer makes a single thin linear hole in the door with his knife, but he then twists the knife, turning it into the circle we see later.
  
  
• Continuity: Kincaid's collar after putting on his jacket in the "What's your favorite scary movie?" scene
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the "He who smells the gas" scene. The electricity is turned off yet the fax machine still works. A UPS is plainly visible next to the fax machine; unusual, but consistent.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In Sidney's first scene, she walks up to the gate and punches in 1288 and then the * key and when she gets into the house she punches in 1288 and then the # key. Presumably "*" disarmed the alarm, and "#" re-armed it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the final fight between Sidney and the killer, she stabs him in the back with an ice pick. Then she picks up his knife, but only to throw it out of reach. She can be seen removing the ice pick before stabbing him with it a second time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sarah Darling is at Sunrise Studios while the office is empty, she is looking for the director of Stab 3, Roman Bridger. However when she looks into one of the office rooms, you can clearly hear her say, "Ronan," instead of, "Roman."
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey first gets his gun out of the trailer, you can clearly see it's a Beretta 92-Compact in a black holster. But throughout the rest of the movie he uses a heavy duty snub (.44?) Revolver in a brown holster.
  
  
• Continuity: Roman Bridger's sideburns shorten and lengthen in the final scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: On the hot set of Sidney's room the table has its longest side flat against the wall with the bed. When Ghostface is thrown from the false door above the set, the table's rotated with its shortest edge against the wall with the bed. This was done so the bed was closer, so the killer could actually land on it.
  
  
• Continuity: When the killer calls Sidney while she is at the police station, the word, "Nokia" is visible on the bottom of the phone. In the next scene it disappears, and then reappears in a later scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dewey unties Gale she lifts her and up and we see rope on her hand. In the next shot the rope is gone.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the killer chases Sidney through the set, she opens a door that leads to nowhere and climbs to the side of the set out of view of the camera. The killer would have known the door goes to nowhere; that wouldn't stop him/her from opening it, and the fall was because Sidney pulled the killer's shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sidney jumps out of the window in the Sunrise Studios, and Dewey comes to her, there's a point where she is looking down, and the camera angle changes to show her looking right at Dewey.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gale reaches for the voice changer, she has blood on the top of her hand. When she puts the voice changer to her mouth, there is no blood.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Cotton is on two lines at the beginning of the film, he puts his portable phone on hold. The brand of cell phone he is using doesn't have a "hold" feature.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sidney goes through the door that leads to nowhere, she holds on and grips the wall frame. She could not have closed the door from her location because it was almost fully open and out of reach (though some viewers have claimed she could have used her foot).
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Jennifer says she is next to die in the script of Stab 3, which Dewey confirms. However, when Jennifer is about to be murdered, she says "You can't kill me, I'm the killer in Stab 3." She's saying anything to get the killer to stop; in addition, there were three versions of the script, and she might have been the killer in one of them. Alternatively, she may have been the killer but "died" in the same way that Billy Loomis "died" in the first film.
  
  
• Continuity: Christine gets out of the shower and steps on the towel, but when she gets dressed and starts to walk down the hallway, her feet are still soaking wet.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene when Cotton is murdered, the room he and Christine are in clearly has a skylight in the ceiling. But once Cotton is thrown over the desk and looking up at the killer, there is no such sky light. (This come from the fact two different opening scenes where shot and the end of the scene when Cotton is looking up at the killer took place in an entirely different room.)
  
  
• Continuity: Sidney is wearing black, high-heeled boots in the middle section of the film, but does not appear to be wearing them while waiting in the police station later in the film when the killer calls her. However, in the last part of the film, when Sidney arrives at the house, she is wearing boots again as she can be seen pulling not one but two guns from them.
  
  
• Continuity: Shape of the cuts on Dewey's forehead throughout the film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Gail gives the gun back to Dewey twice. Once in the hallway and then again in the bedroom.
  
  
• Continuity: There is blood on Roman's elbow when Gale approaches the coffin in the basement. But it disappears when Gale lifts the coffin lid.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Dewey when he falls down the stairs after the killer throws the knife at him
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sydney is in the police station, she's on the phone with the killer on a cell phone. When the killer hangs up, you can hear a dial tone. You wouldn't be able to hear a dial tone on a cell phone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jennifer uses her card to gain access to the Sunrise Studio Archives she clearly swipes her card the wrong way.
  
  
• Continuity: The billboards and banner in Cotton's home indicate that "100% Cotton comes on at 3:30 PM". When Cotton comes home from the traffic jam, 100% Cotton is on the television. Yet it's pitch black outside.
  
  

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