10 Insane Movie Moments You Won't Believe You Never Spotted

10. An Extra Gets "Pantsed" - The Abyss

James Cameron may be as meticulous as filmmakers come, but even he isn't above a mistake or two slipping through the net, and in the case of 1989's The Abyss, he let a hilarious doozy make it into the final film.

In the climax of the movie's Special Edition, the alien entities create a series of gigantic tidal waves which they then hold in the air, and as we see one of the waves frozen on the coast of an American city, keep your eyes fixed on the front-left of the frame.

Suddenly, an extra runs up to a fellow extra and just... yanks their pants down, briefly revealing their bare ass to all before they manage to pull them back up.

James Cameron has been known to fix small errors in the revised versions of his films. The night’s sky in Titanic. Lance Henriksen’s visible torso coming out of the floor in Aliens. The truck window frame in T2. But will he fix this moment from The Abyss? (Yes, this is real) pic.twitter.com/Jhxa2SzZUA— Alien Theory (@Alien_Theory) November 13, 2023

It's completely absurd that something so ridiculous and unexplained made it into the movie, even if only the Special Edition, and that neither Cameron nor his trio of editors noticed it before going to print.

And so, of all the many reasons to savour Cameron's belated upcoming 4K remaster of the movie, getting to see this moment in all of its ultra high-definition glory just might be the best.