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Army of Darkness (1992)

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• 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 (the result of a cut scene).
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie when Ash is being sucked into the portal, the cable that he is suspended from while spinning is visible.
  
  
• 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 (caused by re-editing the sequence, which was originally written differently).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Continuity: Lord Arthur is shot by an arrow during the castle battle scene but then at the end of the film when the two army's congratulate each other he reappears healthy and alive.
  
  
• 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 (and in the Director's Cut, you can see one of the locals handing it to him).
  
  
• 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 the mechanism used to make the cover and pages flap (look for it when the book is attacking his neck, not while flying).
  
  
• 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: When Ash sleeps for centuries in the end, his hair and beard grow, but his fingernails don't.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Crew member visible behind grating in the pit sequence.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Ash is being chased though the forest you can see the tip of the shoe of the cameraman as he runs with the Steadicam.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: About 29 minutes into the movie, as Ash is being chased through the forest on his horse, you can see a black pickup truck in a three-second shot on the right of the screen as it follows Ash.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The air ramps used to launch the actors during the catapult scenes are visible.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash is attacked by a zombie in the hardware store he is seen falling into a pile of boxes that are in front of the counter. In the next shot, he is seen getting up from behind the counter
  
  
• Continuity: Ash uses his belt to escape from the pit. He swings the buckle end up, but the other end wraps around the chain in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash uses his belt to escape the pit, he is seen in one shot with his hand wrapped around both the belt and the chain. In the close-up of him losing his grip, his hand only grasps the belt.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Some viewers believe they see Ash landing on mats when he falls through the portal,(which is too clearly seen to be a 'goof'), however on closer viewing they are, in fact, the *Large Paving stones* that led up to the cabin; There are 3 visible, yet Ash barely lands partly on only one. You can plainly see them because it's shown in slow-motion.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight with the ghoul in the pit, the spiked walls move too fast and come close to crushing Ash multiple times, only to reset during changes in camera angle.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Ash shoots Arthur's sword, you can see something on the side of the broken sword that faces Arthur's surprised face. It could have been the device that blew the sword apart, or something attached to the back of the sword that had to do with it being broken for the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash fights the evil Ash, his mechanical hand switches from his right to his left hand. Also in the same fight, it can be seen that Ash has both his hands at one point, even though his right hand should be the mechanical glove.
  
  
• Continuity: During the windmill fight with the little creatures, a bucket of lard falls on his head, slinging lard globs everywhere. When the bucket finally comes off, his hair is almost totally dry.
  
  
• Continuity: When Good Ash and Evil Ash split after leaving the cabin, it appears that Evil Ash is on the right side. However when they are two different people, Evil Ash does not have the mechanized hand. His hand is normal and Good Ash's is mechanized.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first sword fight between Ash and Evil Ash, Ash's sword is the same length as Evil Ash's. Afterwards, when Evil Ash yells, "Back-stabber!" and pulls out Ash's sword from his body, the sword is small like a dagger.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ash did a flip over Evil Ash and stabs him in the back, it appears that Ash's cape got caught with the sword and Evil Ash. The next shot, Evil Ash did get stabbed but Ash's cape didn't.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ash is fighting the hag after building his mechanical hand, he reloads his double-barreled shotgun and fires four rounds instead of two, and between each of these shots you can hear an audible re-cocking sound as you would from a pump-action shotgun. This sound would not be heard as there is no pump-action on a double-barreled shotgun.
  
  
• Continuity: In the windmill one of the miniatures holds up a nail that Ash stands on, but the nail can clearly be seen in front of his foot.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Ash is gathering armour before constructing the mechanical hand, he takes a modern "drilling hammer" off the tool rack.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While Ash is being carried along with Henry the Red, his missing hand is trapped in the stocks, despite the fact that he could just slip it out with ease.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the windmill, just before Ash steps on the nail, he suddenly has soot on his face. This is because of a deleted scene where he hits his head on the stove pipe, knocking it lose and pouring the soot in his face. In the scene where they raise the drawbridge, the chains that pull it up have slack in them. The chains should have been taut.
  
  
• Anachronisms: While in the windmill, Ash breaks a modern "back silvered" glass mirror, this type of mirror would not be invented until 1835. In the Medieval period mirrors were made of highly polished silver or copper.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the theater version, where the priest tells Ash to drink the potion and say the words, his words don't match his lips (probably because in the original, he gave Ash different directions).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ash falls from the sky, boards are clearly visible where he lands, where it should be sand.
  
  

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