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The Mirror Monster Trope in Horror, Explained

Written by Joshua Kristian McCoy
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One of the most common jump scares in horror takes place in the bathroom mirror, but some movies put their antagonist in the reflection.

Horror stories have a lot of go-to monsters to pull from when assembling the new threat of their nightmares. Despite the theoretically endless options, there are a few standard hallmarks that seem to keep coming back, like, for example, a monster who only exists in the reflection of a mirror.

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