History Main / HallOfMirrors

* ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'' faced a hall of magic mirrors which produced a monster that could not be harmed by direct physical blows. However, Conan realized that he could smash the mirrors instead and the monster was wounded with each smash until it fell.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E121InPraiseOfPip In Praise of Pip]]", Max Phillips follows the 10-year-old version of his son Pip into the amusement park's hall of mirrors after he runs away. Pip then explains that he is dying and disappears.
* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Humbug", Scully chases [[MonsterOfTheWeek Leonard]] in the hall of mirrors at the funhouse. She fires at him but ends up breaking the mirror that reflected him. She walks down a hallway and bumps into a mirror. And then into Mulder, so they decide to catch the thing outside.

* ''Astronomy'', by Music/BlueOysterCult, refers to multiple mirrors set up to obscure the true entrance to the Four Winds Bar. A later song (and album) called simply ''Music/{{Mirrors}}'' also alludes to this confusing effect.

Frequently, a main character will collide with a mirror, having not realized they were looking at a reflection. In reality, as you approach a mirror, your reflection appears to approach from the other side, which really should be a tipoff. However, when a mirror is reflecting another mirror or two or three, it can create the illusion of there being a place to run to without the viewer's own reflection appearing to tip him or her off. In many real-life hall of mirror setups, however, the mirrored panels also have some clear glass (or clear plastic) panels mixed in just to make things even more confusing, and you can very easily walk into these as well since there is no reflection to warn you. A character who "walks into a mirror" may just be a director misremembering exactly why he mashed his face in that midway ride when he was seven.

* In ''Series/PennyDreadful'', Dorian Gray has one leading up to the hidden chamber where he keeps his portrait and
Vanessa goes here on a date that ends badly.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': In "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E10Betrayal Betrayal]]", Slade chases Beast Boy and Terra through a causality-defying hall of mirrors. It leads to a memorable scene of Terra's ThousandYardStare reflected by a half-dozen mirrors at once.

* Batman pursues Baby Dahl into a hall of mirrors at the end of one ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode. She breaks down and surrenders after seeing herself reflected in one mirror the way she should look (as an adult, instead of the looks-about-6 body she actually has) and ends up [[RageAgainstTheReflection emptying her gun into the reflection]] while crying.
** This happens to Batman a lot, really: he chases the Joker into one during the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''.
--> "You think ''this'' is confusing? Try living inside MY head!"

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' had Franchise/WonderWoman in a hall of mirrors. The reflections said to her, "You can't run away from yourself!"
** In "Reflections in Crime", Mirror Master was ironically cornered in one when his equipment was destroyed.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Stan sets up a decidedly low-budget one as an attraction at the Mystery Shack. Lil' Gideon, out to shrink Stan with a magic crystal, gets around the usual problem by breaking every mirror he finds.

* ''Astronomy'', by Music/BlueOysterCult, refers to multiple mirrors set up to obscure the true entrance to the Four Winds Bar. A later song called simply ''Mirrors'' also alludes to this confusing effect.

* An issue of ''ComicBook/XMen'' featured Cyclops and Colossus chasing Mystique into a hall of mirrors; by getting Cyclops to fire his EyeBeams at her reflection, Mystique tricked him into shooting through an energy amplification device which blasted Colossus, which in turn allowed her to get the drop on Cyclops.
%%* ComicBook/TheFlash's longtime opponent(s) Mirror Master is extremely fond of this setting, for obvious reasons.
* The Golden Age Flash's first adventure included a room mirrored on all six sides, designed to drive its occupants insane.
%%* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
%%** In ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' graphic novel, Batman chases the Joker into a hall of mirrors.

%%** And again in ''Franchise/{{Batman}} / ComicBook/JudgeDredd: Die Laughing''.

%%* In one of his first appearances, Mysterio was savvy to this solution, so he coated the mirrors in a deadly poison that could be delivered by any shard that could scratch ComicBook/SpiderMan's skin.
* A variation occurred to ComicBook/DoctorDoom in one issue of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, in a mirrored chamber for his latest scheme to destroy Reed Richards. He's forced to remove his mask and is confronted by multiple reflections of his ruined face which breaks his mind (he, of course, recovers months later).

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* The climax of the kung fu film, ''Film/BloodyParrot'', takes place in one such location, a cavern filled with a maze of mirrors, with the hero and villain dueling each other. And in-between all that, there are also shots of the hero's [[https://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/bloody-parrot naked, abducted girlfriend reflected on the mirrors]], intercut between all the action.
* ''Film/TheCircus'' by Creator/CharlieChaplin. Twenty years before ''Film/TheLadyFromShanghai''--THIS is probably the TropeMaker.

* A flashback in ''Film/{{Dracula 2000}}'' shows Van Helsing capturing Dracula via mirrors set up in an alley. As vampires don't appear in mirrors but humans do, Dracula fails to realise Van Helsing is actually behind him until it's too late.

* ''Film/TheGuest''. The school has created a haunted house for Halloween, including a mirrored corridor. Major Carver ends up confronting David Collins there.

* Sean Connery's character Zed battles against The Vortex in a mirror maze in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''.
* A variation in ''Film/JurassicPark'': a Velociraptor runs into a polished metal door whose angle reflected Lex, trying to hide in a different place.
* ''Film/TheLadyFromShanghai'' has a climactic shootout in one of these. The surreal shoot out is probably the TropeMaker.
** The climax of Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/ManhattanMurderMystery'' is a very nice homage to that shootout.

* The [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004 film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' musical includes a hall of mirrors in which the Phantom traps Raoul. The hall of mirrors is only mentioned in the musical, but in [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the original novel]], Raoul and the Persian fall into a maze of mirrors that the Phantom uses to convince them they are trapped in a desert.
* Yet another variation takes place in the 1994 film version of ''Film/TheShadow'' when Shiwan Khan has escaped into a storage area full of mirrors. Ultimately, the Shadow uses his powers to shatter the mirrors (rather than his guns). The original plan was to have a more prolonged chase through the hall of mirrors, including flashbacks and banter. However, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot an earthquake struck before the scene could be filmed]], shattering many of the mirrors. Since it would be too expensive to simply replace them, the directors went with a simpler version.
* ''Film/{{Skyscraper}}'' (2018) features a tech version of the Hall using virtual reality technology.
* A variation occurs in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. During the climax, Shaw uses a specially designed room that blocks him from Charles' telepathy. It just so happens to be a room of mirrors, implying the telepathic version of this trope. When Erik enters the room to confront him, he has no trouble spotting Shaw, nor does Shaw try to use the reflections to hide. Interestingly enough, once the room gets damaged, Charles is able to use his telepathy and help Erik defeat him.
* ''Film/JohnWickChapter2''. John Wick gets in a shoot-out with Santino's bodyguards in an art installation with moving mirror panels.

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': The final fight between the Birds of Prey and Black Mask's {{mook}}s starts in one of Harley's old safehouses, which is a funhouse in an amusement park. This includes a hall of mirrors, and Montoya winds up shooting a mirror instead of the thug she thought she was aiming at.
* The opening events of ''Film/{{Us}}'' see's a young girl drawn to a hall of mirrors. Presumably, the attraction shuts down as the lights go out and she is unable to find the way out, traumatizing her as a child. [[spoiler: The girl is actually replaced with her identical clone, switching lives being forced to live underground in a twisted pantomime of their doppelganger's life above ground.]]
* ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' has a sequence where Bill is desperately searching for a small boy he believes to be in danger, chasing him into a fun-house with a Mirror Maze with added clear panels to create a harder path through. He eventually catches up to the child being separated by a single pane, just in time to see the titular It also reach the child.
* ''Film/TangoAndCash'': At the end, the BigBad, Yves Perret, holds Katherine hostage with a gun to her head while standing in a hall of mirrors. Tango and Cash notice Perret is wearing a ring on his fight hand, which is reversed in the reflections, allowing them to identify the real one and shoot him.
* A variation in ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze'. A sniper takes a pot-shot at Doc Savage through his office window, but the window glass is designed to refract the image so he appears to be standing in a different place.