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{{trope}}
{{quote|''And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows, and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out.''|Disney's [[The Haunted Mansion|Haunted Mansion ride]]}}▼
▲{{quote|And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows, and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out|Haunted Mansion ride}}
If the protagonists go into a [[Haunted House|haunted building]], there is a non-zero chance that while their back is turned the walls and doors will turn into hole-less walls, leaving the unfortunate protagonists trapped inside.
A less (but probably still) supernatural variant is for the doors to slam shut behind them and refuse to open.
See also: [[Locked in a Room]] and [[It Was Here, I Swear]]. Compare [[Mobile Maze]]▼
▲See also: [[Locked in a Room]] and [[It Was Here, I Swear]]
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== Flat-Out
=== Live-Action Television ===
* In ''[[
=== Amusement Park Rides===
* This is part of the story of [[The Haunted Mansion]] attraction at the [[Disney
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[The Evil Within 2]]'': [https://youtu.be/JVKH4irdLZQ?t=13m16s When Sebastian enters a new hallway, the blood
* In ''[[Layers of Fear]]'', Episode 3, behind one of the doors is a wall that has a chain, but upon entering this room another door disappears.
* In ''[[The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe]]'', after a few times pressing the skip button in the Memory Zone, the door to the room disappears. Cue the Narrator [[Go Mad From the Isolation|losing his mind as he is forced to stay for longer and longer periods of time while Stanley is frozen]].
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' and the Haunted House.
* ''[[Doug]]'': While at a haunted house ride, the floor in
=== Other Media ===
* The creepypasta ''[[The Door Game]]'' has the front door disappearing and replaced by a wall, which one of the players points out. Later on as the game progresses, [[It Got Worse|it got worse]].
==Slammed Shut and Locked/Jammed==
=== Western Animation ===▼
=== Films ===
* In ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' episode The Inconveniencing, the doors slam shut after the group tries to leave.▼
* In the film ''[[Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built]]'', there are doors shutting by themselves and whatnot.
* In [[The Magic School Bus]] episode, aptly named [[Haunted House|"In the Haunted House"]], the door to the Sound Museum slammed shut after when all of the class went inside the mansion.▼
* ''[[Paranormal Activity]]'', the open door to the bedroom where our heroes are sleeping slams shut. Micah jumps out of bed yelling "F***!"
* In ''[[Stay Alive]]'', when Miller goes to the basement, the door slams shut and separates him from his friends.
=== Video Games ===
* Wales Interactive's indie game, ''[[Don't Knock Twice (video game)|Don't Knock Twice]]'', uses this trope as part of a game mechanic, where the doors closes when the player has fully inspected rooms and leaves them.
* In ''[[DreadOut]]'' the door slams shut on the player, and the only way out is to find the key.
* In one room of the catacombs at ''[[King's Quest VI]]'', the two doors slam shut and the ceiling starts to descend on Prince Alexander, until the puzzle is solved.
* In ''[[Yomawari: Midnight Shadows]]'', the door closes on Yui when she tries to exit a room after awakening in a crumbling building.
=== Web Original ===
* From ''[[RWBY]]'' Volume 8: the Evacuation Central Location created by [[Literal Genie|Ambrosius, the Spirit of Creation]], to evacuate the citizens of Atlas and Mantle to Vacuo, provided a one-way trip because Ambrosius [[Jerkass Genie|chose to interpret a stray comment by Weiss]] as part of the system's "design specifications".
▲=== Western Animation ===
▲* In ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' episode "The Inconveniencing", the doors slam shut after the group tries to leave.
▲* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode, aptly named
=== Real Life ===
* [[w:H. H. Holmes|Chicago's "Murder Castle"]], built by serial killer H. H. Holmes, was deliberately designed to confuse and entrap his guests, with secret passages, fake walls, and hidden rooms, and this trope in abundance.
==Unsorted
=== Tabletop Games ===
* Considering the game's genre, and that you can't just leave through the front door of the titular "House on the Hill" in ''[[Betrayal at House on the Hill]]''
=== Video Games ===
* In ''[[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
===Western Animation===
▲* [[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt|The Witcher 3]]'s Doors Slamming Shut, one of Geraldt's contracts has an haunted old mansion. Where if Gerald enters the house, the latter starts to shake and are among other things.
* In the ''[[DuckTales (2017)]]'' episode, "The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!", Scrooge, two of his nephews and Webby go into a cave for shelter and find the entrance sealed with a boulder.
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