Bøker av Jon Sandys

Over 1,000 mistakes and trivia from hundreds of horror movies new and old, with over 100 pictures. From Nosferatu to It Chapter Two, nearly a century of spooky blunders and fascinating film facts.Halloween: When Annie and Laurie leave the hardware store to go to their babysitting jobs it is broad daylight. When they reach the houses apparently just a few blocks away, it is already dark.Predator 2: Have a close look at the Predator's trophy collection on his spaceship. Taking pride of place is a skull from the creature in the Alien movies.The Ring: In the scene when the main character is in the library on the internet, she goes to a couple of websites. When the shot shows the URL up top, it is C: \windows98\mydocuments\etc.html. Instead of actually searching on the web they used a premade html page and accessed it from their computer.An American Werewolf in London: When the movie was first shown in theaters, the marquee read, "From the director of Animal House...A Different Kind of Animal." This lead many movie patrons to believe that it was another comedy film. People ran out of theaters in terror when they realised it was a horror movie.Scream: When Sidney comes running to the house and she sees Dewey come out with the knife in his back she screams "Dewey!" but her mouth says "no!"It: Bill Skarsgård was purposely kept separated from the child-actors during filming, and outside of some early publicity photos, the kids never saw him until the first scene they filmed together in order to get their genuine reactions. The kids were both genuinely scared of him, but also incredibly excited after filming their first scene.The Evil Dead: When Cheryl is running through the woods, she is wearing slippers that stay on up until she reaches the cabin door. However, in following shots, she is shown barefoot, and when Ash opens the door her foot is dirty as if she'd been running barefoot the whole time.

500 mistakes from 50 more fan-favourite TV shows, many with pictures. Mic transmitters visible in Breaking Bad, crash mats in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a necklace appearing from nowhere in Friends, and bandages disappearing in Grey's Anatomy. Mistakes aplenty in The Big Bang Theory, Cheers, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Family Guy, I Love Lucy, Knight Rider, Prison Break, Seinfeld, Sherlock, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Two and a Half Men, The Walking Dead, and many more. You'll be amazed what you've missed in some of your favourite shows!

Over 500 mistakes and trivia from more than 70 Christmas movies, many with pictures showing you what to look for. From Home Alone to It's a Wonderful Life, via Elf and Bad Santa, even covering Die Hard and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, there'll be something about your favourite Christmas film you've never noticed or known before!Home Alone: When Kevin goes to the grocery, he buys Tide detergent. While walking home, the two bags break, but no Tide detergent falls out.Elf: Will Ferrell actually walked down Lincoln Tunnel in full costume, causing several minor accidents.Die Hard: When Hans discovers the first bad guy lying dead in the lift ("Now I have a gun - HO HO HO!") and pushes his head, the corpse is moving his head before he is hit (watch carefully). He also closes his eyes before Hans makes contact.The Muppet Christmas Carol: At the end of the film when Scrooge is going round being nice to everyone, as he's on his way to the Cratchit's house, we see in the background a shop called "Micklewhite's". This is Michael Caine's real surname.The Holiday: When the driver is taking Amanda to the airport at the end, all the dials on the car are at zero, so obviously the car is not moving at all.National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: Clark Griswold in the attic watching old movies dressed in a woman's turban and gloves to keep warm is not only funny but a reference to the Norma Desmond character from "Sunset Boulevard", who watches her old films to remember her Hollywood glory days.How the Grinch Stole Christmas: After the Grinch unscrews the light bulb in the town Christmas tree, all the lights in the town go dark and the Grinch starts to take off in his sled-thing. When they show a close up of him, the lights are on. Then a few seconds later, the lights are off again.

500 mistakes from 50 fan-favourite TV shows, many with pictures. From the infamous coffee cup in Game of Thrones to impossible triplets in the Golden Girls, crewmembers in shot, characters' names changing, visible boom microphones, plot holes and continuity errors galore. Slipups in 24, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Charmed, Dexter, Doctor Who, Frasier, King of the Hill, Lost, M*A*S*H, The Office, Red Dwarf, Sex and the City, The Simpsons, Star Trek, Supernatural, The West Wing, The X-Files and many more. You'll be amazed what you've missed in some of your favourite shows!

Over 500 more mistakes from your favourite movies, including over 80 images so you can see them for yourself, and many with the times they occur, making them easy to find when watching. From Gone With the Wind to Mary Poppins Returns, including continuity mistakes, factual errors and crewmembers in shot. You'll be amazed what you've missed, even in movies you think you know well!Lex's changing top in Jurassic Park. Rey's disappearing blaster in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The lingering special effects blob in The Matrix. The crewmember shoving things out of a cupboard in Scream. Russell Crowe's sand pillow in Gladiator. Identical heart rates in Jurassic World. The misspelled headline in The Dark Knight. Harry Potter never noticing Peter Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map. And many, many more...

More than 700 mistakes and bits of trivia from all 23 of Marvel's Infinity Saga movies, including over 70 images. Plot holes, behind the scenes info, continuity mistakes and cameos.Avengers: Endgame: In the final battle, Wasp and Ant-Man are in the van trying to get the quantum tunnel operational. We cut back to the fight and we can see Ant-Man there too, fighting in his giant form.The Incredible Hulk: Paul Soles, who portrays the character Stanley, was the voice of Dr. Bruce Banner for the 1966 cartoon of The Incredible Hulk. The name "Stanley" is itself likely a reference to Hulk co-creator Stan Lee.Iron Man 2: In the scene where Mickey Rourke is in the laboratory discussing how long it will take him to reproduce the robots, his glasses change position from him wearing them or not throughout the conversation.Captain America: The Winter Soldier: At the end on Nick Fury's gravestone, under his name is the passage from Ezekiel 25:17: "The path of the righteous man is beset..." This was the start of a big monologue made famous by Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction.Spider-Man: Homecoming: The ferry splits in half down the middle, enough so the water is flooding in dramatically as the split grows. There is no possible way that the two halves of the ferry could have remained afloat like that. It would have sunk immediately.Thor: Ragnarok: When Thor is strapped in the chair we can hear the music from the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; specifically an instrumental version of Pure Imagination.

Over 500 more massive mistakes from 400+ movies, many with pictures and times they occur - broken arms magically healing, characters being in two places at once, crossword puzzles editing themselves, wires in shot, day becoming night, crewmembers reflected, and many more. Continuity mistakes, factual inaccuracies, plot holes, and audio problems aplenty.Mistakes from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Addams Family, Apocalypse Now, Armageddon, Avengers: Endgame, Back to the Future, Braveheart, Charlie's Angels, The Dark Knight, Die Hard, Forrest Gump, Gladiator, The Godfather, The Goonies, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Independence Day, the Indiana Jones movies, It, Jaws, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, National Treasure, Ocean's Twelve, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Scream, The Sound of Music, Speed, Spider-Man, Stand By Me, Star Wars, Titanic, Top Gun, Toy Story 2, Troy, Twister, and hundreds of others...

Over 700 pieces of trivia from movies old and new, many with pictures identifying the scene in question so you know what or who to look out for. From Gone with the Wind to Black Panther, there'll be something you didn't know about all your favourite movies: * In Frozen, when Anna is outside the gates during "For The First Time in Forever", you can see the backs of Flynn and Rapunzel from "Tangled".* According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Lord of the Rings holds the record for the greatest number of false feet used in one movie: 60,000.* The "oil" that was used to lubricate the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz was not really oil. It was discovered that oil would not photograph well, so they used chocolate syrup instead.* Wes Craven named A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger after a bully who tortured him in school.

This book collects over 500 great movie mistakes together, 80 with images so you can see them for yourself, and many with the time they occur, making them easier to find in your own copy. Bloopers throughout movie history, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. From continuity mistakes to crewmembers in shot to historical errors, over 8 decades, you'll be amazed what you've missed in some of your favourite movies.Have you seen the stormtrooper banging his head in Star Wars?Did you notice the gas canister in the chariot in Gladiator?How about the missing Spitfire engine in Dunkirk?How did the flyers get into the vault in Ocean's 11?How does Harry Potter change his T-shirt in his sleep?Who's the guy with sunglasses and a cowboy hat in the background of Pirates of the Caribbean?