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[[File:Creeeeeeeed 38.jpg|link=Warhammer 40000|thumb|350px|[[Warhammer
A scene where a reflection is used to suddenly reveal a villain or monster, usually, when the angle of the mirror is adjusted by the victim/ protagonist.
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See a video of these examples [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tjoqhx_dwk here].
Close sibling to [[Offscreen Teleportation]]. Scarier cousin to [[Stealth Hi Bye]]. See also [[Danger Takes a Backseat]]. If the scary thing in the mirror is ''the one looking into it'', it's a [[Tomato in the Mirror]].
Not the same as [[Mirror Monster]], which is where the scary thing is part of or only visible in the mirror.
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* ''[[Stir of Echoes]]'' uses this shot, but only for the audience: the monstrous ghost is unseen by the main character.
* Used twice in the original ''[[The Haunting]]''.
* In ''[[Layer Cake]]'', there's a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] where the main character, in the middle of an angst-riddled drug- and whisky-fueled freak out, opens the mirrored bathroom cabinet, music builds and then as he closes it the action suddenly cuts to the next morning, with the character neatly dressed and his problems resolved.
* Subverted for what little it is worth in the Eddie Murphy action vehicle ''[[Metro]]'' in which the [[Scare Chord]]s begin to play when the [[Love Interest]] opens then closes the medicine cabinet yet the man out for her blood is not there. Perhaps the only thing "clever" that this movie did was subverting as many cop movie cliche' the writers could get their hands on.
* Occurs at the end of ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]''.
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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fY68v9yAys mirror room] in ''[[Silent Hill 3]]''. First blood vessels start coming out of the sink in the mirror and covering the mirror image and your reflection. Then the room itself gets covered in blood and starts draining your health. The door also locks, so you think you're permanently trapped, but you can leave once your reflection stops moving.
* The first time you look at the bathroom mirror in ''[[Doom]] 3''.
* Several in ''[[The
* In ''[[Catherine]]'' if you go wash your face in the bathroom of Stray Sheep before going home, the lights will flicker, the walls will drip with blood and there will be a brief flash of th
* In ''[[Ib]]'', Ib and Garry find themselves in a room at one point where the only thing they can do is to look into a mirror some distance from the door. Doing so reveals nothing scary, but when they turn around they find a mannequin head blocking the door. Trying to move the mannequin head doesn't do any good, so Ib and Garry have no choice but to look into the mirror again and see ''the mannequin head looking right over Garry's shoulder''.
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[[Category:Horror Tropes]]
[[Category:Mirror Scare]]▼
[[Category:Reflective Tropes]]
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