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Cannibal Holocaust (1980) More at IMDbPro »

• Miscellaneous: When Faye has got a spider on her shoulder, she is screaming and talking at the same time.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the cannibals kill Faye, they cut of her head and one of them holds the head up. At that time a wig drops of from the fake head, revealing a yellow foam head underneath the wig.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The "muskrat" Miguel kills in the film is not a muskrat at all. It's a coatimundi, a type of animal closely related to the raccoons.
  
  

• Continuity: Near the beginning, a soldier Oliveira is killed by a poison dart, but he is seen standing behind the lieutenant when Professor Monroe flies in.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After the "Last Road to Hell" sequence, the female executive tells Professor Monroe that the footage was "all a put-on" and "there was no enemy army approaching," referring to the fact that the soldiers shown in the film were all acting. The Last Road to Hell sequence is made up completely of execution footage, with no soldiers acting or enemy army approaching at any time. This is because originally in the script, the sequence consisted of Vietnamese rebels firing at approaching troops, but execution footage from Nigeria was used instead.
  
  
• Continuity: At the very beginning, during the television exclusive on the missing film makers, there is a shot of the group by a seaplane, where the introduce their guide. Mark is to the far right, doing maintenance on his camera (so it's shut off). However, when Professor Monroe views the team's film reels, one of the reels shows that same scene as shot by Mark on his camera. This would be impossible since Mark was shown working on his camera in the first shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When the cannibals begin to mutilate Jack, his pants are down to his ankles (as to castrate him). However, once they lay him on the ground, his pants are pulled back up.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The skin colored plastic trash bags holding in Jack's fake torso and organs are visible when the cannibals disembowel him.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The dub for Professor Monroe is obviously out of sync when he speaks into his tape recorder at the Yanomamo village.
  
  
• Continuity: When the crew first find the impaled native girl, her legs hang down limply, but in later shots her legs are crossed at the ankles.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the jungle guide is bitten by the snake in his boot it is said to be poisonous, but it is a red-tail boa constrictor which is not poison and uses constriction to kill its prey.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the impalement scene, careful analysis shows not only that the lower portion of the "stick" is perfectly smooth and straight versus the portion through her mouth is rough and somewhat jagged, like an actual tree limb, but that the two pieces do not line up correctly - the lower portion would be exiting through her eye sockets.
  
  

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