- Continuity: The bullet hole in the back of Charles Brady's shirt disappears.
- Errors in geography: The mountains of California are everywhere in this movie, yet it supposedly takes place in rural Indiana, one of the flattest states in the U.S.
- Continuity: Officer Horace shoots the vase with yellow flowers twice
- Continuity: When the Sherriff and Soames go upstairs to look around, Soames takes the 45 of the song "Sleepwalk" off the turntable and throws it on the bed. Later, when Charles's mother makes Tanya dance with him, she makes the record start to play even though it shouldn't be there.
- Continuity: During the chase scene, the odometer in the Trans Am is shown twice and the second time, the mileage is less.
- Continuity: When Tanya is trying to start the police car in the end so she can get away while Mary Brady is on fire, Mary leans against the car to shout at Tanya and leaves fire on the hood after sliding off. When Tanya finally puts the police car in reverse the fire is still there, but in the next shot when she stops the car going backwards barely 10 feet the fire is no longer on the hood.
- Boom mic visible: In the very first shot of them movie, the two police officers talking to each other and pass a police car, you can see a boom mike reflected off the back of the police car as they talk.
- Continuity: Obvious dummy when Mary picks up sheriff and throws him over fence near the end of the film.
- Miscellaneous: In the beginning where Charles is cutting his arm, you can clearly see the outline of the blood patch he is actually cutting.
- Factual errors: When Tanya takes pictures through the SLR camera in the cemetery, she should have seen Charles in his true form since the image in an SLR viewfinder is bounced off a mirror.
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- Continuity: SPOILER: When Charles is dying, Mary, his mother has her hair behind her ear in one shot, then over her ear the next shot several times.
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