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In the first scene of Burt and Vicky in the car there is a copy of Stephen King's 'Night Shift' on the dashboard of the passenger side. A little homage to King in that the short story 'Children of the Corn' is in this book. See more...

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Mistake Visible crew/equipment: In a scene where the two lead characters pull up to a stop in the car, the shot is dead-on from the driver's side, and you can clearly see the entire camera crew reflected in the side of the car.

Mistake Continuity: A scene in the beginning of the movie shows the little boy dead in the road facing one way and on his stomach and then in a different shot he is facing another way rolled over and in a different place.

Mistake Factual error: In the original theatrical trailer, Stephen King's name is misspelled as "Steven."

Mistake Continuity: After the owner of Hansens café is attacked, the children put his hand against a blender, and a blood splatter occurs, spraying across onto Job's face. Between shots the pattern of the blood on Job's face changes between shots.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When the gas station attendant is talking out loud to himself after giving directions to the people, there is a shot of him through a window, in the window you can clearly see a crew member.

Mistake Continuity: When Sarah laying in her bed, drawing a picture of everyone standing outside Hansen's Café with knives, between a wide shot and a closeup, as she is colouring it, the drawing noticeably changes.

Mistake Revealing: During the explosion at the end, in a high aerial shot you can hear a member of the crew whisper "shit!" behind the camera.

Mistake Continuity: After Burt has been stabbed, he is chased around the town. During the scene, in different shots, the size and shape of the blood stain on Burt's tee-shirt continually changes. In some shots it's small, then large, then smaller again etc.

Mistake Continuity: When Burt and Vicky first enter Gatlin, they pass the building labelled as "Whiting Garage" twice.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: The gas attendant check his garage because he hears a noise. After he has investigated, he walks back over to his red truck. As he walks over, you can see a boom mike moving around, reflected in the red truck's windsheild.

Mistake Revealing: As Vicky and Burt are driving down a dirty lane, through a row of corn, you can see fresh tire tracks in the mud from a previous take.

Mistake Continuity: When Burt twists the arm of the girl who is giving the church sermon, to hold her still, her black dress strap falls halfway down her arm. In a following shot, before she grabs the knife, it is back up on her shoulder.

Mistake Continuity: At the start of the film when Vicky gives Burt his birthday present, there is a radio on the bedside shelf, to the right of the wall plug fixture. When she turns the radio on in the following shot though, the radio is under the plug fixture.

Mistake Continuity: When Vicky gets carried away from the bedroom by the group of children, the sandal on her left foot falls off as she struggles. Later, in the cornfields, as she gets raised onto the large crucifix, the sandal is back on her foot.

Mistake Continuity: The length of the cut on Vicky's cheek changes through the movie.

Mistake Continuity: As Joseph is about to run away through the corn field, the shot pans across the corn and it is blowing in the wind. In the very next shot as Job says, "You're not going through the corn are you?" the corn is now totally still.

Mistake Continuity: When Joseph stumbles into the road, Burt hits him with his car. In the initial shot we see that Joseph's body had landed in the middle of the road on a yellow line. In a following shot, his body is now seen to be by the side of the road.

Mistake Continuity: After Sarah takes the needle off of the record player in the bedroom, when Vicky comes over and starts to question her, the record continues to spin to a stop, then in one shot it stops spinning. But in a following shot it is still spinning.

Mistake Continuity: When Job is hanging up the lantern in the barn, as the winds blow, there are two children huddled up, to the right of Job and the others. In the next shot of Burt entering, one of the children has vanished.

Mistake Continuity: When Burt and Job are out in the cornfields, trying to set up the hose, Burt tells Job to turn the valve. As Job turns it, his ripped cardigan is hanging from his elbow. In the next shot it's suddenly up on his shoulder.

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