Reality Bending Bathrooms

Cafe Society
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I was watching The Unborn the other day, and it occured to me that I’ve seen other movies where a bathroom is the setting where reality disolves on a character. Everything is fine at first with normal bathroom fixtures and a mundane paint job on the walls, but then things crack up and age, and scary creatures appear… The other one that comes to mind in Silent Hill, but I know there are more and it’s bugging me thay I can’t think of them.

Can we make a list of movies/tv shows where people are in the bathroom when reality either falls away leaving said bathroom looking radically different or the chracter hallucinates that it does?

Just bathrooms, please.

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You’ve got The Shining.

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What do you mean? They haven’t adapted The Shining into a movie.

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How 'bout Poltergeist?

ETA: I just love the Youtube comments sometimes:

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If you want to play games like that, nobody’s going to want to play with you.

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Well there’s that scene in Trainspotting where Ewan Mcgregor dives into the dirtiest toilet in Scotland.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s not brain safe, so I broke the link.

http:// video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3317961613976061602#

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You can come play with us, elfkin. Come play with us. *Foreverrrrr . . . *

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I have to ask, but… that whole “that movie never existed” routine is usually applied to films with virtually no redeeming value at all - Highlander 2, say, or Star Trek V. By applying it to The Shining, do you intend to imply that The Shining is of a similar quality to those sorts of films?

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ISTR Jacob’s Ladder had a weird bathroom scene, although most of the real reality bending was elsewhere.

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Yeah. It’s a pity that such a talentless hack like Kubrick did that film, compared to the masterworks that all the other Shining/King story adaptations were.

ahem

Anyway, Candyman had some really screwed-up bathroom happenings - you summoned him through bathroom mirrors, and there was the really freaky, nasty “graffiti’d” bathroom.

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Does it have to be movies/tv? In John Varley’s story “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank” the main character is in the bathroom at one point when the virtual reality he is in starts to behave weirdly (I don’t think this scene is in the legendarily-bad TV adaptation of the story)

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Thirteen Ghosts. Blood running from the faucet, etc., IIRC.

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Stephen King’s It miniseries. Another one with blood coming up through the drain.

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Fairly minor, but in Victor/Victoria, when the characters move from their small flat into the posh hotel, Julie Andrews is admiring the stunning Art Deco bathroom with the comment coming from Robert Preston, “The bathroom is a religious experience” and Andrews responding that one could sleep in the bathtub.

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I don’t remember if it was the first weird thing that happened, but I remember the bathroom in House (the '80s horror/comedy movie, not the modern TV show) having a lot of weird stuff happen in it.

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There was this series of TV commercials…

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“Mona!”

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Donnie Darko seeing Frank in the mirror.

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In The Sixth Sense, the guy who shoots Bruce Willis, and sets off all the crazy reality bending stuff in the rest of the movie, is hiding in the bathroom.

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The “guy” was Donnie Wahlberg!