10 Most Bizarre Horror Stereotypes

Over the decades, horror hounds have been conditioned to think the worst of any and all mirrors seen throughout a movie. Of course, that's down to how this genre of cinema has frequently featured mirrors as a way to showcase certain terrors.

Alexandre Aja's Mirrors is a horror offering that needs no explanation on this front, but there are so, so many other pictures that utilise a mirror to beam out evil forces - whether those forces were seen by a movie's protagonists or solely shown to the watching audience.

Off the top of the head, you can think of An American Werewolf in London, Prince of Darkness, Phantasm, The Ring, What Lies Beneath, The Boogeyman and Flatliners as just a handful of examples of films which showcase a regular household mirror to drum up a scare.

Whether it's as a portal to another world, highlighting a sinister presence hiding in plain sight, or utilised for what turns out to be nothing more than a fake-out or jump scare, these devices designed for vanity have been demonised by the horror genre.

To this day, horror movies have typecast the mirror, mirror, on the wall as a conduit for pure, unadulterated evil.