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The Mirror

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The setup

A frightened bathroom visit turns into a chain of nested nightmares, with a goofy monster and Dracula’s domestic life complicating who is dreaming about whom.

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8.0 / 10

The premise

Here’s the bit.

An unnamed woman keeps spotting a bandaged ghoul behind her in a bathroom mirror, although he vanishes whenever she turns around. His increasingly silly props undercut the scares, and a bathroom intrusion reverses their roles as successive awakenings reveal nightmares within nightmares. A fleeting werewolf sends the sequence into Dracula’s bedroom, where his wife Debbie is more concerned about a forgotten birthday gift than the monsters. The film returns to the original sleeper for one final bedside scare.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Someone’s in here!

I love you, Dracula.

I love you, Debbie Lieberstein!

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

On the creators’ podcast, Andy Samberg explains that the idea grew from his own fear of seeing someone behind him in a bathroom mirror after watching The Descent.

ScriptEnglish · 6 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 02:19

    Debbie Lieberstein

    I heard my mom's birthday is tomorrow and I forgot to get her something.

  2. 02:21

    Dracula

    Oh, no, no, baby. Don't worry. We'll think of something.

  3. 02:23

    Debbie Lieberstein

    You promise?

  4. 02:25

    Dracula

    Yeah, I promise.

  5. 02:27

    Debbie Lieberstein

    I love you, Dracula.

  6. 02:29

    Dracula

    I love you, Debbie Lieberstein.

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