Goofs

When Edith coughs up blood in the middle of the night it appears on her pillow and she wipes some on the pillow next to her. When she gets up to investigate the sounds the blood disappears.

When Edith runs to the front door after coughing up blood, she swings the doors open wide and you see no snow accumulation immediately at the doorway. But when she steps out and the camera changes angles, there are literally snow drifts in front of the door. And the snow is again gone when she returns to the hall.

The movie showed the ghost in their outfits when they were murdered. However, when Lucile was killed by Edit she was wearing a bedding robe with long hair but when she was a ghost playing the piano at the end, she was wearing a black robe and her hair was brushed carefully.

They were expecting a delivery from Birmingham, but received a delivery made in Glasgow.

When Allan arrives at the morgue, he greets Edith and puts a hand on her shoulder. The camera angle then focuses on Edith and his hand has disappeared.

When Lucille chases Edith outside near the end, the mining machine starts up instantly. Any steam-powered machine, especially one in below-freezing temperature, would need at least 2-3 hours just to get the steam pressure up, let alone operate at full efficiency.

Dr. Alan claims that it would be impossible to fake a ghost photograph with glass plates. In fact at the time a lot of 'ghost photos' were made with glass plates, because the expensive plates were re-used, and if not cleaned properly, a 'ghost' image would remain.

The clay-mining machine appears designed to operate almost 'backwards', which would rapidly cause a total failure in real life. In the edited film, it seems to dig very well with buckets descending the conveyor's upper slope to bite down into the ground. Not shown, however, is what happens a moment later - the filled buckets convey the clay up to the top and then dump it all over the clay-mining machine!

The buckets should've been mounted the other way round on a conveyor going in the opposite direction, to dig the ground with an uppercut motion - and thus when the filled buckets reach the top, they neatly tip out the clay as they turn over to go back down.

Sir Thomas's sister is referred to as "Lady" but he is a baronet as his father would have been before him. Children of baronets have no courtesy titles. Only daughters of peers with the rank of earl and above have "Lady" as a courtesy title.

It would be impossible to stab someone in the cheek-bone in the clean way Lucille stabbed Thomas as the bone would stop the blade.

Leaves constantly fall into the Great Hall through the hole in the roof, despite there being only a handful of trees in the vicinity, and none of them with any leaves.

During the final fight outside in the snow, the ice-encrusted, steam-powered mining machine is activated even though the steam engine is obviously not running.

When Edith ties her father's bowtie she does it completely wrong, tying it with the loose end in front of the bow.

When Edith discovers the collection of hidden phonograph records, they are marked as the Edison Gold Moulded wax cylinders. These types of records made in the 1890s were pre-recorded and mass produced by an injection molding process. They were not the blank type that home users could use to make their own audio recordings.

The "Land Certificate" Edith Cushing finds when looking inside the envelopes related to the former wives bears the cipher ER around the British coat of arms - should be VR (Victoria Regina) as they were from the late 19th century.

The beautiful tea set, in which is served contaminated tea for Edith, is Royal Crown Derby Imari. This style of the Imari tea sets was produced from 1910, but events in the movie are taking place in 1901.

When her father is going to dinner, Edith comes downstairs to greet the doctor and his family in negligee. That would never have happened. She wouldn't have greeted guests without being properly dressed.

Warning, spoilers.

The cheque written to Thomas is dated 1901, however the files Edith finds containing photographs and documents from his previous marriages show that his first marriage was in 1887, 14 years earlier, in which time he has not aged.

At the reception, when Edith and Thomas are about to Waltz, Edith asks "Why are we doing this?" she is clearly saying something else.

During the dinner scene early on in the film when Edith is eating dinner with her father who hoped to celebrate the acceptance of her novel by a publisher, as one looks over her shoulder as she speaks to her father who is in center frame, one can clearly see that she puts food in her mouth well before she has actually completed her line in the dialogue.

When Edith opens the Enola cabinet and takes out the wax cylinder player, we hear her exclaim what it is but her mouth doesn't move to say anything.