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The Omen (1976) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: When Thorne and the photographer are being chased through the graveyard by the Rotweillers, you can make out the dog handlers for a brief second behind some bushes.
  
  
• Continuity: As Katherine falls from the hospital window, she waves both arms on the way down even though her right arm and shoulder had previously been solidly immobilized in a cast.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The guide wire can be seen on the pole that falls from the church.
  
  

• Continuity: When the taxi driver in Rome first exits the cab, his finger is bandaged. A minute later, it has no bandage.
  
  
• Continuity: While first meeting Damien, Mrs. Baylock closes the door twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The photographer shows a picture he had mistakenly taken of his own reflection in the mirror at the priest's apartment. In the photograph, however, he is clearly not pointing the camera at himself.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the graveyard, when Thorne kneels at his son's grave, he bumps the heavy stone lid quite easily, yet it takes both Thorne and the photographer considerable effort to move it a moment later.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Keith Jennings, the photographer, says that Megiddo is 60 miles south of Jerusalem. In fact, it is north of Jerusalem, 22 miles north of Shechem and 15 miles south of Haifa.
  
  
• Continuity: When the young nanny hangs herself, the window is seen breaking in three consecutive shots (outside long, inside, outside medium); it breaks in a different way in each shot (top half, bottom half, bottom 3/4).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The cars in scene 3 are fake. You can see that they are flat as Robert Thorn walks into a building.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Toward the end of the film, Jennings says that the place name Megiddo derives from the term Armageddon. Actually, it is the other way around - "Armageddon" is a bastardization of "Har Megiddo", which, in Hebrew, means simply "mountain of Megiddo". According to Revelation 16:16, this would be the site of the last battle in history.
  
  
• Factual errors: The process for revealing a photo goes like this: Revealer, Water, Fixer and Water. When the photographer is revealing the picture, he takes it out of the revealer and exposes it to light, without the picture being submerged in fixer. A picture that has not been in fixer will start blackening instantly by the light. He treated the photo as though the whole process had been completed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the decapitation scene of the photographer, you can see the hydraulic rubber belt flinging the plate glass off the back of the loading truck towards the manikin upon its supposed impact against the log Jennings was kneeling behind.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Mr. Thorne is in Damien's room with the scissors while he is asleep, you can see Damien's eyes blink.
  
  
• Continuity: In the wrestling scene at the end between the nanny and Mr. Thorn the blood stains on the door of the fridge change and some disappear.
  
  
• Factual errors: As the priest enlightens Damien's father by the river, he clearly says "The Book of Revelations predicted it all." The correct title, as any priest would know, is "Book of Revelation" - it contains only one "revelation".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Mrs. Baylock refers to an "Episcopal wedding". But they're in England, and there is no Episcopal Church in England (only in Scotland and the U.S.). She should have said "Church of England wedding" or "Anglican wedding" or even just "church wedding".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Visible breath from the dog at the last scene of the birthday party - in June.
  
  
• Continuity: When the mother falls off the second floor and lands her right arm is pointing up, then they cut to the child looking at her. When they cut back to her, her right arm is pointing down.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: After Robert Thorne stabs Miss Blaylock in the kitchen, the Rottweiler dog trapped in the basement is heard howling, but his mouth is obviously making barking motions.
  
  

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