Goofs for
Ghost Town (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: The ghosts do not cast reflections in mirrors, but do cast reflections in other reflective surfaces (such as the bar scene near the beginning of the movie).
  
  
• Continuity: Dr. Pincus pours the contents of the left-most bottle of laxative into a glass and drinks it. Firstly, the level of laxative in the glass drops by about an inch between pouring and drinking, presumably due to a missing shot. Then, when the camera returns to the three bottles on the counter, all three bottles appear full.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Pincus and Gwen are in the restaurant, the ice in Gwen's drink melts way too fast between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Dr. Pincus goes back to the hospital to ask about seeing the ghosts, his doctor's badge keeps flipping over between shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): You will never find a Hindu named Jehangir. In India at least it can be a name for a Parsee or a Muslim.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bertram Pincus tries on the new shirt and works on his hair in the mirror, there is obviously no store tag hanging from the back of the collar. But later, at the museum, the store tag is there.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Dr. Pincus first leaves his office, his apartment building is directly to the left. After the ghosts show up in his apartment and he goes to work in the early morning he goes left out of his building instead of right to his office. However, he is just trying to get away from the ghosts at this point, and Frank's dialogue seems to suggest he's trying to find a hotel.
  
  
• Continuity: There is an ice storm outside the day Dr. Pincus decides to start helping the ghosts. Assuming he gets to work right away, there should be still be cold, wet weather outside when he visits each of the mourners, but instead it is mild, autumn weather.
  
  
• Continuity: When we see the closeup of the bottle of colyte laxative the prescription label says "TAKE ONE TABLET DAILY WITH 8OZ GLASS OF WATER". However, when he takes the medicine, it's a liquid not a tablet. Also the red label that says "WARNING LAXATIVE AGENT" seems to disappear the second time we see the bottles all three in a row.
  
  
• Continuity: When Frank harasses Dr. Pincus at the bar, the toothpick and olive in the dentist's martini suddenly reverses (toward/against) the bar edge, and suddenly grows about two inches.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Dr. Pincus is asked to take a look at the mummy because of his expertise as a dentist, he takes out his pocket calendar and opens it to the very beginning of the book near January or maybe February. However, the very next scene shows the bright colors of fall in Central Park which would be near September. However, he may be using an academic diary, which begin in August or September.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Pincus pours out his laxative electrolyte solution there are lumps in it. These disappear when he drinks it.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As a dentist, Dr. Pincus is exposed to germs and bacteria. By OSHA rules, Dr. Pincus should have changed his dental top before he left the office. The movie implies that he does not.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Gwen invited Pincus over for dinner, her fiancée Richard is called into work and leaves the apartment. As he is leaving watch his reflection in the photograph behind Gwen. You can see him open the door, but when he does he just stands still (who can hear the door close when he is still).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While sitting a the bar Pincus orders a sapphire martini. The bartender is shown shaking it up. A sapphire gin martini shaken would appear cloudy (bruised) when poured into the glass. Pincus is next seen with a perfectly clear martini which would have to have been stirred.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the exhibition, when Gwen is conversing with Bertram, Gwen accidentally and briefly looks at Frank (standing in the foreground), realizes then turns away giving the appearance of an act of embarrassment.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the elevator talking to Gwen, Dr. Pincus told her to check the mummy for something he saw on the slide show: "...some bone loss on the upper left mandibular gumline." If there was bone loss on the upper jaw, it would be the maxilla. The correct verbiage should be "...some bone loss on the upper left maxillary gumline." The mandible is the lower jaw. Additionally, upon examination of the mummy in a later scene, the upper RIGHT side of the mouth was examined.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end of the movie, Gwen came to visit Dr. Pincus in his office. The doctor was just finished with a patient, who then left the room. The doctor picked up a few of the now unsterile and contaminated instruments with his bare hands which would not be done without gloves on. Furthermore, he invited Gwen to sit in the chair so he could look at her sore tooth without first cleaning the room and putting out sterile instruments.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Richard came, unscheduled, to Dr. Pincus' office at the end of a day, Dr. Pincus started to examine the bothersome tooth Richard indicated. Dr. Pincus did not first put on gloves before picking up the mirror or explorer and looking in Richard's mouth.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the close-up of the label is shown on the laxative agent Dr. Pincus is supposed to take, it shows the directions as: TAKE 1 TABLET DAILY WITH 8 OZ GLASS OF WATER, when it is a liquid solution. Also, it shows that the Colyte solution is 100mg per dose and that there are qty 50 doses, which if this were truely Colyte, one dose is 240 grams per 1 bottle which is 4000 ml. If you do the math, even if it was 100 mg per dose and he had 50 doses, that would be the equivilent of almost 21 bottles of the 240 gram solution. So he would have almost a full 21 4000ml bottles sitting in front of him instead of just 3.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Pincus and Gwen are together with the mummy she says King Pepi was buried in the typical New Kingdom (c.1570-1070 BC) style, but there was no New Kingdom King Pepi of Egypt. There were 2 king Pepi's but not in the New Kingdom. They were both kings in the Old Kingdom (c.2345-2181 BC) of Egypt. Also the king's penis was left in place on the body during mummification.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Dr. Pincus is taking an impression of a female patient, he has her bite down into a tray of alginate. That material is not supposed to be bitten into but instead it is seated and held with hand pressure. Biting into an alginate impression can distort the impression or push the teeth into the tray, also distorting the impression.
  
  

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