Candlelit Bath: Difference between revisions

 

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== Advertising ==

* Subverted on two counts in a U.K. advert for Glade Wisp Flameless Candles. See [http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA4774&advertiser=Glade here.]

* In the controversial ad campaign for the ''[[Hitman]]'' game ''Blood Money'', the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718095315/http://sleazette.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/shocking.jpg "Shockingly Executed" ad] features a dead woman who has been electrocuted by a toaster in a romantic candelit bath.

* Whilst not a life-or-death situation the lady in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeJ84jqLhrE this WKD advert] ends up not enjoying her candlelit bath as her husband chooses to barge into their bathroom for a number two; with the implication he waited for that exact moment via the "Have you got a WKD side?" (WKD = wicked) slogan.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': Andy takes a bubble bath, with scented candles, relaxing music... and then Quincy (Jason's iguana) pops his head out of the foam.

 

* In the film ''[[Stigmata]]'', a woman steps into her candlelit bath to relax, only to be suddenly struck with a vision of the last tortured moments of the Messiah, complete with wounds opening in her hands.

* ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' has such a scene involving Riker and Troi. They are interrupted by a communicator page.

* The second ''[[Hostel]]'' movie offers a very twisted example where the woman taking a candlelit bath actually ''is'' the psycho killer. She actually seems pretty relaxed after she's done cutting her victim up, letting her bleed to death, and [[Blood Bath|bathing in her blood]].

* A rare male example occurs in ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]''. The trope's use would also be [[Justified Trope|justified]], seeing that the lightbulb wasn't yet invented at the time the story takes place.

 

== Literature ==

* A rare non-horror, non-serial killer example occurs in ''A Mango Shaped Space'': Mia takes a candlelit bath while listening to music when she learns that it will enhance her experience with synesthesia.

 

* While it's actually a bath in the dark, otherwise happens in the episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' "Dead in the Water".

* ''[[CSI New York]]'', where a woman who has filled a bath with rose petals and water (why?) ends up electrocuting herself.

* A variation of this trope was put into historical context in ''[[Desperate Romantics]]''. Elizabeth Siddal is posing for Millais as Ophelia in a tub of cold water heated by candles. She almost drowns when the candles go out, the water cools down and she loses consciousness. Her parents are understandably not too happy.

 

 

== Web Original ==

* Parodied in ''[[John Dies at the End]]'' when John and Dave are trapped in a [[Haunted House]] and want to draw the ghost out of hiding: "You light some candles. I'll go stand in the shower naked."

 

== Western Animation ==

* Not actually candelit (although the lights in his room were dimmed), but Megatron of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' occasionally relaxed with a soothing jacuzzi bath while plotting evil schemes. The rubber duck helped.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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