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Night of the Living Dead (1968) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Jonny got out of his car he threw his driving gloves onto the dashboard, but a little later he takes them out of his pocket and puts them on.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Ben is bent over a ghoul he just killed in the woods, you can see a hand waving the character away from the body and out of the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: Sheriff McClellan has large shells on his belt, which would not possibly fit in the rifle he is carrying.
  
  

• Continuity: The headlights of the truck, smashed in an earlier scene by a zombie, are intact during Ben, Judy, and Tom's attempted escape.
  
  
• Continuity: When the first zombie gets to the house where Barbara is hiding, it's still daylight. Moments later it appears to be the middle of the night.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The first time we see the dead body at the top of the stairs, the face has been eaten away. Later when the body is being dragged away, the rug conveniently covers the face but for a split second we are able to see the face and it is clearly normal.
  
  
• Continuity: The torch (table leg) jumps from the chair outside to the character's hand and back again between shots when the chair is put outside.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Ben's hammering is always out of sync.
  
  
• Continuity: While Karl and Ben are fighting for the rifle, the door to the main room, near the basement door, opens and shuts between cuts.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scenes before Tom tries to convince Judy to leave his left sleeve in cleanly torn, like someone has cut it cleanly away with scissors. In subsequent shots it turns to messily torn and then intact when he leaves for the trek to the gas pump.
  
  
• Continuity: As Ben informs Barbara that the house is secure and all windows have been sealed up, a plain, uncovered, unsecured window is visible right behind him.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Light stand visible behind Barbara as she helps Ben board up the door soon after he arrives.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tom, Judy and Ben are going to the gas pump, there is one shot where it is clearly day (or at least dawn), even though the scene takes place in the middle of the night.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Barbra runs the car into the tree, it is already dented before the impact.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Barbara is told not to look at the defeated zombie that tried to attack her, his eyes are moving to look at her.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ben is nailing wooden boards to the door, small numbers can be seen on them. These were written on the backs of the boards so they could be removed and replaced in between shots, preserving continuity. Some numbers are visible because some of the boards were nailed on backwards.
  
  
• Continuity: Ben finds a pair of shoes and puts them on Barbara's feet, but in the very next shot where she's sitting on the couch, she is not wearing shoes nor are they any in the shot with her.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ben kills the first two zombies by the truck, there is an audio mismatch between his blows and the impact sounds.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ben is tell Barbara the story of about the zombies chasing the gas truck, his mouth does not match most of the words he is saying.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Ben is about to strike the first zombie you can plainly see someones hand takes the tire iron out of his hand.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the end of the movie, when the 'patrol' shoots one of the zombies, you hear gunshots and you don't see them shoot until after the sound.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Harry and Tom first enter from the cellar, Tom yells "Don't shoot! We're from town!" We hear him say "We're from town" but his lips never move.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Barbara rounds the corner of the farmhouse while searching for an entrance, someone is visible side-stepping away from the alley and crouching behind some bushes and posts of a shed.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As soon Barbara walks into the farmhouse, there is a crew's hand in the shot before the stuffed animals if you pause the right moment.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ben tackles the second zombie by the truck, he pins it to the ground right underneath him and starts beating it with a tire iron. You can see that to avoid actor injury, Ben is hammering the zombie at least 5 inches away from the zombie's head.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Ben has struck one of the zombies outside the house to the ground, a cube of material, probably wood, is thrown next to the zombie's head, which Ben hits with the tire iron.
  
  
• Continuity: When he first appears, the cemetery zombie's coat is open and unbuttoned. During the fight with Johnny and in subsequent scenes, two of the buttons are fastened. Would a zombie button up his coat?
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Ben contradicts himself all through the story he tells Barbara about the gasoline truck. First he says he had just gotten into a truck he found to listen to the radio when this happened. But then he says that when the gas truck came by it was all he could do to miss it - inferring he was driving. He also says that it was "screaming by" and that zombies were chasing it on foot and keeping up - but all the zombies we've seen can be out run by even Barbara. He also says that the truck was on fire during this chase and there were zombies hanging onto the truck yet we've seen that the only thing that scares zombies is fire.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the opening scene, Johnny tells Barbra that they have a "three-hour drive" ahead of them to return home to Pittsburgh. However, later in the film when the TV broadcast is listing local rescue stations, all of the town names given are located in the greater Pittsburgh area.
  
  
• Continuity: The live television remotes all seem to be taking place in daylight, although it's supposed to be the middle of the night when they're being aired.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning when Barbara and Ben are approaching the correct grave site a figure in black jumps behind a large headstone behind them.
  
  

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