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Mistake Revealing: Right after Nell sends Hugh to hell, Dr. Marrow and Theo come out of hiding behind a pillar. As Marrow puts his hand on the pillar, it squishes in as if it was made of foam rubber, instead of stone.

Mistake Continuity: As Nell pokes around in the furnace under the fireplace with her iron poker, the bones and ash in it tend to move around, changing their positions many times between shots.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell opens the ledger which lists the dead children, in the first shot there are no people crossed out in the ledger. In the following closeup, there are.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell arrives at Hill House, after Mr. Dudley opens the gate and she drives through, between shots the amount of brown leaves on the ground around the gates increases.

Mistake Continuity: While they're all having their first dinner at Hill House, everyone has a little red wine. The wine levels in Lili Taylor's glass go up and down between different shots.

Mistake Plot hole: Theo refers that Nell is from Boston, despite the fact that the two have just met, and Nell never mentioned that fact.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell runs to the Circular Room the second time, she is looking at one of the mirrors. She sees herself pregnant. If you look close, you can see her reaction in the mirror. She brings her hand over her mouth. In the next shot, she does the same thing again.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene in which the girls enter the playroom with the revolving floor, you see them, in a shot from the back, step onto the moving floor.  In the next shot, from the top, they are back in the entry and step onto the moving floor a second time.

Mistake Continuity: During the movie, Theo brags about her black high heeled boots. When we see the boots, they obviously have a thin high heel. Yet in the scene where Theo and Nell find the carousel room, you get a clear shot of Theo's boots and they have a platform bottom that is solid, not a heel. Probably done for balance, but it's pretty noticeable.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene where Theo first sees her room, she runs and flips into the bed. You then see her head fall back onto the pillow. The flip should have caused her feet to hit the pillow.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell finds the picture album of Hugh Crain and his wife it passes around 3 or 4 pages. But when Nell grabs it, it's about 10 or 20.

Mistake Continuity: During dinner, Theo starts pouring a glass of wine for Mary. In one shot she has poured about a quarter of the glass full. But in the nest shot the glass is nearly full.

Mistake Continuity: When Theo and Nell are talking in Theo’s bedroom, in one shot Theo removes her black cardigan. In the next shot, you can see in the mirror, that she removes it again.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell walks to the bookcase, where she was led by the bloody footprints, the vase of peacock feathers on the desk in front of her, change positions between shots.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell is in the study, the photo album of Crane opens. It then nearly falls so she grabs it. As she grabs it you can see the page has a picture on it, of two people's face very close up. But in the next closeup of the same page, the picture has changed and it is now Crane standing alone in the centre of the picture.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell is searching for Dr. Marrow, and she stops his work on the table, the tape recorded on the table changes position between shots.

Mistake Continuity: At the first afternoon, Nell is filling out some tests in the Great Hall. We see her put down the same paper twice, one from the ground shot; the other from overhead.

Mistake Other: Nell's hair is considerably lighter in the scene where it starts moving by itself - clearly CGI.

Mistake Continuity: The confetti-like things that are on Theo's hair in the final showdown, disappear in subsequent shots.

Mistake Continuity: When Nell arrives at Hill House and converses with Mr. Dudley through the gates, the oval plate in the centre of the gates had spikes all around it, facing outwards away from the house only. Later when Luke crashes the gate, an oval plate falls with spikes on - spikes which are now facing in toward the house.

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