Goofs
Evil Dead
Continuity: Scotty is shown
being scratched by the demon on the right side of his
face, however, later the scratches appear on his left
side.
Crew or equipment visible:
Lights are visible everywhere: on the forest floor when
Cheryl is being chased, mounted on the corners of the
roof above the front porch, etc.
Crew or equipment visible: A
crewperson is visible outside the window when the white
shutters keep on banging.
Factual errors: When Ash goes
into the basement for shotgun shells, the shells he grabs
are "spent" shells, and therefore, would not
work.
Miscellaneous: Linda's pendant
as Ash is getting ready to use the chainsaw.
Audio/visual unsynchronised:
Tires screeching on a dirt road at the beginning.
Continuity: The amount of blood
on Ash's face as he watches the demons disintegrate at
the end.
Crew or equipment visible:
Producer Rob Tapert can be seen hiding in the bushes when
the car starts to cross the bridge.
Continuity: Ash's legs have
been grabbed at, clawed and bitten into yet when he
stands up at the end of the film, his trousers are intact
although we've seen them ripped at least twice.
Continuity: When Scotty first
enters the cabin, it is clearly dark out, despite it
being daylight outside when he approached the house.
Continuity: The shotgun wound
on Cheryl's face goes from the left side to the right
side then back to the left.
Evil Dead 2
Continuity: Ash chops his hand
off at the wrist, yet later it is seen to have a fair
amount of forearm attached to it.
Continuity: The hand that Ash
attaches the chainsaw to (the negative was reversed for
one shot).
Revealing mistakes: Various of
the weapons used, including the chainsaw, the poker, and
a knife, bend and wobble as though made of rubber or
plastic.
Continuity: When Ash goes into
the basement to get the pages of the Necronomicon he
picks up one page with the hand where his chainsaw should
be.
Audio/visual unsynchronised:
When Ash's possessed hand is smashing plates on his head
and punching him, his mouth isn't moving at all, yet he's
groaning.
Revealing mistakes: When Ash
crashes through the front windshield of his Olds, a wire
can be seen attached to his body.
Revealing mistakes: When the
"spirit" chases Ash through the house, you can
see the rigging of the set where the roof should be.
Continuity: Although it is
Ash's right hand that is cut off, afterward when he goes
down to the cellar to retrieve the pages of the
Necronomicon, there is a scene where he picks up a page
with his right hand (this may have been a flipped
negative).
Continuity: When Annie is
trying to pull Jake out of the cellar door, she is
sprayed with blood and her shirt and shorts soaked in the
front. When she turns around, she's almost completely
clean.
Crew or equipment visible: The
harness, rope and pulley that drag the character into the
vortex at the end are all clearly visible.
Crew or equipment visible: When
someone's head rolls toward the camera after it has been
chopped off, you can see the crew member who threw the
head toward the camera in the background as he tries to
hide from the camera behind a log
Crew or equipment visible: The
wires holding the flying eyeball and the wires that move
the roots of the tree are visible.
Crew or equipment visible: Set
lighting can be seen on top of the corners of the porch
awning in several exterior shots of the cabin.
Continuity: Annie's clothes
change in the middle of the film for no apparent reason.
Crew or equipment visible: The
lighting rig is often clearly visible above the cottage
interior set.
Continuity: The green slime on
the wall and on the others disappears.
Revealing mistakes: When the
possessed Henrietta is spinning over Annie, there is a
large tear in the crotch of the "Henrietta"
suit.
Miscellaneous: A white liquid
dribbles out Henrietta's ear. This is Ted Raimi's sweat mixed with the white powder in the
costume.
Crew or equipment visible: You
can, in several outdoor nighttime scenes, clearly see the
lighting equipment (used to create the eerie glows in the
woods) hanging from trees.
Crew or equipment visible:
After Ash comes out of the water, you can see a person
behind him dressed in black running in the woods.
Continuity: While Ash is
fighting with his hand in the kitchen, you can see
daylight through the windows above the sink. However,
this scene supposedly takes place at night.
Army of Darkness
Revealing mistakes: Plywood
planking visible on ground when Ash falls from the sky.
Continuity: Length of Ash's
hair as he searches the forest for the book.
Crew or equipment visible:
During the final battle a man in a T-shirt and modern
shoes charges in with Henry's army. (This has been
identified as director Sam Raimi.)
Continuity: Ash is momentarily
dry after falling in the puddle before entering the
windmill.
Continuity: In the pit, the
chain is moving at a different speed than the spikes.
Continuity: Ash's hair when
talking to Lord Arthur about returning to his own time.
Continuity: The sun is rising
when the reinforcements arrive, but soon after it is dark
again.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs:
A hand wearing a gauntlet (not a white glove) holds the
reins of Ash's horse as he rides off near the end.
Continuity: Both armies come
together twice to congratulate each other.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs:
After Ash climbs out of the pit we see that the holster
for his shotgun is empty. Then moments later Ash uses the
shotgun to shoot Arthur's sword. But it's quite likely
his rescuers retrieved the shotgun separately.
Revealing mistakes: When Ash's
car falls out of the sky, you can see the chains they
used to suspend the car from a crane.
Revealing mistakes: When the
book of the dead is attacking Ash in the Graveyard scene,
you can see that it is a 3-ring binder. Look for it when
the book is attacking his neck, not while flying.
Anachronisms: Skeletons wearing
helmets used in the American Civil War and in World War
I.
Continuity: Ash has his face
cooked to the stove top so bad that he has to use a
spatula to remove his face. After he does there are no
marks or burns on his face.
Factual errors: Pouring boiling
hot water down his throat, when Ash gets a Tiny Ash in
his stomach, would do a lot of damage. However, we see no
other reaction to this, other than temporary discomfort
and then laughter.
Anachronisms: The pneumatics
and engineering expertise needed to make his mechanical
hand were not available then. A blacksmith's tools would
have been too clumsy and large.
Errors in geography: There are
no deserts in England.
Continuity: After the witch
falls to the ground, Arthur kneels and reaches toward it.
His hand is just about to touch its shoulder. When the
shot changes, Arthur's hand is further away.
Continuity: The film begins
with Ash as a prisoner of the knights, but at the end of Evil Dead II
(1987), Ash is hailed as a
hero by the knights (and there's no indication here that
he had been a hero they turned against).
Continuity: During the
flashback, Ash pins his arm to the ground with his knee
while cutting his hand off with a chainsaw. In Evil Dead II
(1987), he stabs his hand
with a knife before using the chainsaw.
Continuity: When Ash sleeps for
centuries in the end, his hair and beard grow, but his
fingernails don't.
