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Dracula (1992)

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• Continuity: When Mina is on the bed with Dracula, her hair moves from being all behind her shoulders to all in front between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Lucy's red gown is two different lengths in the garden before Dracula's first bite.
  
  
• Continuity: The blood on Elisabeta's body.
  
  

• Anachronisms: Colored strings on the harp (modern harp strings are colored, Victorian ones were not).
  
  
• Continuity: At Hillingam, Quincy is holding his hat in his hands as Jack Seward sits down. When Jack gets up, he takes Quincy's hat from underneath himself and apologizes for sitting on it.
  
  
• Continuity: The glass lid on Lucy's coffin disappears midway through the scene. When the men look into the coffin, the lid is present, but when Lucy walks over to the coffin, she gets in without having to open the lid.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lucy is lying in the glass coffin at the funeral, her chest can be seen rising and falling due to her breathing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lord Arthur Holmwood is sitting at watch beside Lucy's bed, the cable that hoists Holmwood up is visible as Dracula's werewolf-like persona bursts through the glass into the room.
  
  
• Continuity: After Jonathan escapes, Mina is reading letters. She runs up the steps holding them tightly. However, when Van Helsing intercepts her and starts to dance with her, she no longer has the letters.
  
  
• Continuity: The hammer and the lamp switch positions when Van Helsing is trying to open Lucy's coffin after she has died.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Lucy's nightgown during the transfusion.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of the Arabian Nights book in the scene with Lucy and Mina.
  
  
• Continuity: The professor's cross in the campfire scene with Mina disappears for a moment.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dracula laughs about Harker and sort of claps his hands, there's no hair (and/or makeup) in the palm of his hands.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Dracula bites Mina, her 20th century bikini briefs can be seen beneath her sheer 19th century night gown.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Jonathan escapes, Mina is climbing a set of stairs. Van Helsing can be seen to her left, waiting for his cue to step out.
  
  
• Continuity: Lucy gives Mina her ring as a wedding gift but later we see it back on Lucy's hand.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time we see the Count's carriage, the wheels are covered, but when Jonathan looks down past the wheels to look down the side of the cliff, they are "open".
  
  
• Continuity: After Harker's escape from the castle, the nuns send a letter to Mina. She holds the letters in her hands as she approaches the stairs to Lucy's balcony. When she's climbing the stairs she no longer has them in her hands.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Mina and Lucy are running back to the house after the monster rapes Lucy, you can see the shadow of one or two stage lights on Mina's dress.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dracula flies into the room during the vampire orgy, you can see the moving platform that is carrying him.
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the beginning of the movie, we see Harker writing in his journal with his left hand (Keanu Reeves is left handed). Towards the end of the movie, however, we see a right hand that is supposed to be Harker's, writing.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the beginning we can see that the lights of Dracula's carriage (as well as some of the castle lights/candles) are 20th century light bulbs, some with blue glaze.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Soon-to-be puncture wounds are visible when Dracula is about to bite Lucy for the first time.
  
  
• Factual errors: The language spoken in the beginning is not medieval Romanian - it is closer to medieval English translated into modern Romanian.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jack Seward is interviewing Renfield in his cell and is subsequently attacked by him, Renfield bites him on the right side of the neck. When the orderlies run in to restrain Renfield, Seward grabs the left side of his neck as if in pain.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Harker arrives at the castle and Vlad's shadow is seen to emerge from the left on the hallway wall, the puppeteer manipulating the puppet casting the shadow can be seen near the end of that effect. NOTE: This error seems to have been fixed for the Special Edition DVD, released in 2007.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Elisabeta's eyebrows and eyelids twitch visibly when Prince Vlad stumbles down to view her dead body.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Jonathan's hair turns gray, throughout the rest of the film, it goes back to being dark again, with very little gray, and switches back to gray.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lucy is sleeping and Arthur is guarding her, Dracula appears at the window and Arthur looks up and sees him. Just before he looks up, a female voice can be heard off-screen saying "Now" to cue him to look up. NOTE: This has been corrected for the 2007 DVD release.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Varna was never a Romanian port. It is Bulgarian. However, Bram Stoker's actual novel does state the ship sailed from Varna to London. There was never any inference or suggestion, either in the film or the novel, that Varna was a Romanian port.
  
  
• Continuity: After Van Helsing inspects Minas teeth on the train (when they are on their way to Transylvania) Harker leans toward her and he is sweating hard. When we next see his face, moments later, there is no sign of sweat.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harker hands Dracula the letters he has requested, Dracula has them in his hand as he moves around behind him. The shot instantly switches to an overhead shot of the scene and the letters have disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Prince Vlad catches the dropped perfume bottle the hand that catches it is holding a bottle with a bright yellow fluid (the color shows up clearly against the dark leather glove). The other bottle in the second hand in the same shot, contains a much darker, almost red liquid.
  
  
• Continuity: The vampire woman who rises between Jonathan's legs is at the foot of the bed. Jonathan is sitting on the bed's right-hand side, not at the foot.
  
  
• Continuity: The vampire woman tears open Jonathan's shirt but it's previously shown to be already unbuttoned.
  
  
• Continuity: Dracula buys a newspaper right before bumping into Mina but by the time she leads him to the cinema it's gone.
  
  
• Continuity: Mina's hat is tilted when she's standing in front of Dracula and the wolf. It's straight when she walks toward them a moment later. Factually, in the scene where Dracula introduces Mina to the Wolf, Mina's hat was noticeably and repeatedly repositioned from the being pulled down on her forehead to being pinned on the back of her head.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the transfusion-scene, Van Helsing spoke of "Landsteiner's method". This was published in 1900, while the movie is set in 1897.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Holmwood has the gun pointed in Van Helsing's face in Lucy's crypt, van Hesling explains about the undead. Switch to a shot behind Helsing and his jaw is still moving even though he has stopped speaking.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Mina and Vlad are at the cinematograph, the films shown in the background are moving too smoothly. At the time, films were projected at approximately 16 FPS, this resulted in jerky movement.
  
  
• Plot holes: The reflection in the shop window scene: if we can see the newspaper as Dracula picks it up, why are we unable to see his walking cane and hat (and, indeed, his clothes)?
  
  
• Continuity: When vampire Lucy enters her vault, the candles spontaneously ignite. There are two (and only two) five-branched candlesticks in the vault, one of which is seen to ignite twice (in separate, consecutive shots).
  
  
• Continuity: When Harker steps into the brides' bedchamber, the bed/floor is covered in dry ice smoke. When the camera view changes, all the smoke disappears instantly.
  
  
• Factual errors: Professor Van Helsing speaks with a clearly distinguishable German accent. The character, however, is a Dutchman.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Harker slices Dracula's throat with a knife but before the knife touches Dracula's neck you can see the cut already there.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: Modern Lighting (light bulbs in lamps) at the Inn/Restaurant when they are eating after cutting off Lucys' head.
  
  

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