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{{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]]}}
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{{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 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.
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 supernatural variant is for the doors to slam shut behind them and refuse to open.
A less (but probably still) supernatural variant is for the doors to slam shut behind them and refuse to open.

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See also: [[Locked in a Room]] and [[It Was Here, I Swear]]. Compare [[Mobile Maze]]


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See also: [[Locked in a Room]] and [[It Was Here, I Swear]]
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== Flat out gone ==
== Flat-Out Gone ==

=== Live-Action Television ===
=== Live-Action Television ===
* In [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] episode, ''Fear Itself'', Anya arrives at the Halloween Party. But she can't enter because the front door disappears!
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode, "Fear Itself", Anya arrives at the Halloween Party. But she can't enter because the front door disappears!


=== Amusement Park Rides===
=== Amusement Park Rides===
* This is part of the story of The Haunted Mansion Disney ride.
* This is part of the story of [[The Haunted Mansion]] attraction at the [[Disney Theme Parks]].


=== Video Games ===
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[The Evil Within 2]]'': [https://youtu.be/JVKH4irdLZQ?t=13m16s When Sebastian enters a new hallway, the blood stained door vanishes!]
* ''[[The Evil Within 2]]'': [https://youtu.be/JVKH4irdLZQ?t=13m16s When Sebastian enters a new hallway, the blood-stained door vanishes!]
* In ''[[Layers of Fear]]'', Episode 3, behind of the doors will be a wall that has a chain, but another door disappears.
* 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 ===
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' and the Haunted House.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' and the Haunted House.
* ''[[Doug]]'': While at a haunted house ride the floor in one of the rooms, the floor .
* ''[[Doug]]'': While at a haunted house ride, the floor in the main lobby/living room begins to recede into the walls.

=== 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==
==Slammed Shut and Locked/Jammed==


=== Films ===
=== Films ===
* The [[Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built| Winchester]] movie, will have doors shutting by themselves and whatnot. Since it's based on an actual haunted house.
* In the film ''[[Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built]]'', there are doors shutting by themselves and whatnot.
* [[Paranormal Activity]], the open bedroom door where our heroes are sleeping in slams shut. Micah jumps out of bed yelling "F***!"
* ''[[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.
* In ''[[Stay Alive]]'', when Miller goes to the basement, the door slams shut and separates him from his friends.

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=== Western Animation ===
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* In ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' episode The Inconveniencing, the doors slam shut after the group tries to leave.
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* 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.


=== Video Games ===
=== 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.
* 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, the only way out is to find the key.
* 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".

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=== Western Animation ===
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* In ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' episode "The Inconveniencing", the doors slam shut after the group tries to leave.
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* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' episode, aptly named "In the Haunted House", the door to the Sound Museum slammed shut after when all of the class went inside the mansion.


=== Real Life ===
=== Real Life ===
* H.H. Holmes's "Murder Castle," which not only has this trope happens, secret passages, fake walls, and hidden rooms, which are all design to kill his guests.
* [[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 or Ambiguous==
==Unsorted, Ambiguous, and Other==
=== Tabletop Games ===
=== Tabletop Games ===
* Considering you can't just leave through the front door of ''[[Betrayal at House on the Hill]]'', and the genre, this trope is in play.
* 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]]'', this trope is clearly in play.


=== Video Games ===
=== Video Games ===
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* In ''[[The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt]]'', one of Geralt's contracts has an haunted old mansion. If Geralt enters the house, it starts to shake and the doors slam shut.


===Western Animation===
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* [[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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Latest revision as of 17:58, 30 August 2023
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 Haunted Mansion ride

If the protagonists go into a 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

Examples of One-Way Entrance include:

Flat-Out Gone

Live-Action Television

  • In Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Fear Itself", Anya arrives at the Halloween Party. But she can't enter because the front door disappears!

Amusement Park Rides

Video Games

Western Animation

  • Samurai Jack and the Haunted House.
  • Doug: While at a haunted house ride, the floor in the main lobby/living room begins to recede into the walls.

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.

Slammed Shut and Locked/Jammed

Films

  • In the film Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built, there are doors shutting by themselves and whatnot.
  • 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, 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

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 "In the Haunted House", the door to the Sound Museum slammed shut after when all of the class went inside the mansion.

Real Life

  • 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, Ambiguous, and Other

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, this trope is clearly in play.

Video Games

  • In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of Geralt's contracts has an haunted old mansion. If Geralt enters the house, it starts to shake and the doors slam shut.

Western Animation

  • 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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