- Crew or equipment visible: When Dick Suttle is explaining the features of the trailer, a crew member is reflected in the windshield.
- Continuity: When Butch is at Dotty's restaurant talking to the waitress, his glass suddenly goes from less than half full to three-quarters full between shots.
- Continuity: When Butch is blocked by the police car in the alley he puts the car in reverse and rams the squad car without any damage to his own. In fact, throughout the whole ordeal with the two squad cars he manages to keep the car from being damaged at all.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The child in the film, the son of a devout Jehovah's Witness, says "I'm going to go to hell for this," after stealing a Halloween costume. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in the concept of hell.
- Factual errors: It's implied that Jehovah's Witnesses don't watch television; Jehovah's Witnesses do not have any objections towards watching television as long as its non-violent and non-sexual content.
- Anachronisms: In a scene where the police are getting some candy together, some of the candy is in boxes from the 1990s, a design that did not appear until almost 30 years after the time in which the movie is set.
- Continuity: When Phillip's mother is serving the eggs for breakfast, there is a small cut visible above her eyebrow. Later the cut disappears but reappears freshly when she is attacked.
- Revealing mistakes: When Lottie goes to pour Butch's coffee you can see there is no coffee being poured into the cup.
- Revealing mistakes: When Butch is driving the blue Bel Air, the gear-shifter can be seen in P position.
- Anachronisms: The station wagon Butch steals is a either an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser or its twin the Buick Skylark Sports Wagon, easily identified by the glass "skylights" around the edge of the roof. However these cars were not introduced until February of 1964. Earlier in the movie a reference is made to an upcoming visit to Dallas by President Kennedy, so the car could not exist during the time frame of the movie.
- Anachronisms: Based on the references to President John F. Kennedy and the Texas governor's re-election campaign, the events in this movie take place in 1962. The US paper money shown at the end of the movie and in the opening are modern post-1964 Federal Reserve Notes instead of Silver Certificates which were the only currency in circulation in 1962.
- Continuity: As he lays dying under the tree, Butch gives Phillip a wad of paper money and tucks it in his shirt. After Butch dies and Phillip is being led across the meadow, the money is shown falling out of his shirt. The breeze scatters it, leaving a trail of money behind him. Yet when Butch's body is shown later, somehow much of that money has somehow been magically returned to the immediate area around him.
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- Continuity: SPOILER : When Philip puts his mask on, as dying Butch tells him to, the mask's rubber band goes under his ear. In the next shot, when we see Philip from a longer distance, the rubber band goes above his ear.
- Continuity: SPOILER: The wad of money Butch tucks into Phillip's Casper costume changes position several times between shots. Also, after Butch is shot and killed and Phillip is led away across the meadow, the money is shown falling out of his costume and being scattered by the breeze. However, when Butch is shown dying in the prelude and in the final scenes, many of the bills have mysteriously returned to the grass around his body.
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