When Chowder sprays Jenny with water from his water gun in Nebbercracker's basement, the water mark disappears in the next shot of her which is just after a brief shot of DJ. The water could not have dried that quickly.
When DJ and Chowder swing away from the exploding house, you see DJ drop Chowder into the ditch as he swings over it. In the next shot both DJ and Chowder are falling into the ditch at the same time.
The driver side on the police car switches between the two times it is seen. The first time it is shown as a normal car in the United States. When the police arrive to arrest the kids it pulls up onto the curb with driver side moved to the incorrect side.
After Nebbercracker is put in the ambulance, the door is closed and the camera closes in on the back of the ambulance. You can see the taillights at the top of the door. Then DJ's image appears in the window as an outside reflection. Yet when the ambulance pulls away, the perspective is as if the camera is inside of the ambulance pointing back through the glass as DJ is left behind.
It is impossible for a basketball to go as far into Nebbercracker's lawn as it did-- the thick grass would've slowed it to a halt almost instantly.
When the dog which is 'eaten' by the house first appears, it squats to pee in the manner of a female dog. At the end of the movie, when it appears again, it hikes its leg up and pees as a male dog. The dog is referenced in the credits as "Kevin".
Correction: Male dogs are also known to squat in the manner of a female when they pee (quite commonly, in fact), so this is quite a possible thing.
Correction: Male dogs are also known to squat in the manner of a female when they pee (quite commonly, in fact), so this is quite a possible thing.
When the cops are being eaten after the kids attempt to feed the dummy to the house, the dummy disappears. It could have been eaten quickly by another appendage off-screen.
In the beginning of the movie, when DJ wakes up from his nightmare, his phone is ringing. However, when DJ and Chowder run out to rescue Jenny, the ringtone is different.
This is not likely a goof. Distinct ringtones were available in 1983; they were to allow a subscriber with multiple phone lines determine easily which line was ringing. DJ's dad being a dentist makes them having additional lines even more plausible.
This is not likely a goof. Distinct ringtones were available in 1983; they were to allow a subscriber with multiple phone lines determine easily which line was ringing. DJ's dad being a dentist makes them having additional lines even more plausible.
DJ says the house is calling him. He offers the use of *69 as proof of it. However, the movie is set in 1983. *69 was not widely used before 1993 & not available anywhere prior to 1989.
When DJ's parents prepare to drive off, his father's car (an early 1980s Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon) is shown to have the "express-up" feature when he closes it as he is showing lifting his hand off the window switch. This special feature for power windows in cars did not exist until the 1990s.
When the kids are in the back of the police car yelling at the police as they approach the house their voices are muffled as if completely enclosed in a car despite the front, driver-side window being open and a metal grate separating the front and back of the police car.
Before DJ, Chowder and Jenny went to Nebbercracker's house to try out their dummy plan, the scene focuses on a picture DJ took, which is of the tree outside the house. When the scene changes and becomes real, it showed the three of them walking towards the house, which was on the right side of the screen. If DJ had taken the photo from his house, they should have been moving towards the other side where the house should have been.
Zee had plenty of time to see the house in its "monster" state when she opened the front door to tell Chowder he had a phone call.
It is unknown how no-one seemed to witness or hear the house getting up and chasing DJ, Chowder, Jenny, and Nebbercracker through the neighborhood and then exploding. Especially since this scene takes place on Halloween, making it so that most people would be walking around those areas.
In scenes where the house reveals itself in broad daylight, such as when the house almost eats Jenny, and when the house swallows up the cops and their car with DJ, Jenny, and Chowder, nobody seems to notice other than those three, despite there being many other houses around it.