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The last scene in this Best Picture Oscar-winner shows Phoebe, a young fan of Eve and a would-be actress alone in Eve's apartment. She puts on an elegant cloak that Eve wore to an awards ceremony that night and holds the award Eve won. She stands in front of floor-length mirrors that reflect her image into infinity in a hall of mirrors effect, bowing and pretending to accept the award, foreshadowing that Phoebe will displace Eve as Eve displaced Margo.

 

A villainous slave merchant lures his adversaries into his castle's magic hall of mirrors which he calls a "death chamber" to disorient them so he can sneak up on them and stab them in the back, but strongman Anthar figures out the secret of the magic glass.

The mirrors scenes start at about 1:00:00 and then again at 1:25:50.

 

Spy fiction author Elly Conway travels to the Arabian Peninsula to see a woman known as The Keeper of Secrets to retrieve something left with her for safekeeping. The Keeper's office has mirrored safe boxes on two walls that produce a hall of mirrors effect.

The scene starts at about 1:29:45.

 

Okju is a troubled corporate security consultant who kicks ass like she's in a stylish Korean violent revenge movie. She rides her motorcycle to a store to buy bottles of gin and juice to take to her stressed-out Ballerina girlfriend, stopping first at a public restroom with mirrors on two walls where she gets reflective for a few seconds.

The scene starts at about 7:55.

 

Harley Quinn and her girl gang fight off an army of masked men in an abandoned amusement park fun house full of mirrors.

Scene starts at about 7:55. Watch it on YouTube

 

After a giant sinkhole appears in front of the Bob's Burgers restaurant, Bob's kids find a dead body in the hole which leads to a homicide investigation. The police suspect Calvin Fishoeder, Bob's landlord, but the kids suspect his brother Felix. They follow Felix into the Wonder Wharf amusement park where they see him go into the Funhouse. He dances for a second and sings a song about a bunch of sailers dancing in a row, then leaves and the kids follow him into a secret hideout inside a tall hill in the middle of a roller coaster ride.

The scene starts at about 53:41

 

A pickpocket hides a stolen wallet in Chaplin's pocket then he and Chaplin are chased by policemen through the circus grounds. Chaplin runs into a mirror maze to hide. He gets confused and keeps bumping into mirrors but eventually he finds the way outside only to run back inside again followed by the pickpocket demanding the wallet. He tries to grab Chaplin but gets confused by the mirrors and misses. Chaplin gets away and runs outside, but he turns around and runs back inside the maze once again chased by a policeman. The policeman also gets confused by the mirrors and can't capture Chaplin. Chaplin uses the confusion to escape once again.

The scene starts at about 7:45.  

 

At the end of the movie we see a reporter who has been trying and failing to find out the meaning of "rosebud," Kane's last word before he died. He interviews the man in charge of Kane's estate who tells him he heard the word one other time, after Kane's wife left him. We see a flashback of Kane smashing up his wife's bedroom then finding a snow globe of a cabin in the snow and saying the word "rosebud." Then Kane puts the glass ball in his pocket and walks away slowly though his enormous mansion full of servants into a hall with large mirrors in ornate frames on each wall that make multiple reflections of him. After he walks past the mirror and out of the frame, the camera lingers on the empty mirror, then zooms in slowly as it fades out and cuts back to the interview.

The scene starts at about 1:51:10. Watch it on YouTube

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj-BCOlGPY

 

Conan breaks into a wizard's island castle to rescue a kidnapped princess. He walks into a large room with walls covered in curtains. When the curtains are raised we see that the walls are made of mirrors. Several figures in orange robes walk out of the walls then they merge into a large monster that fights Conan. Conan's sword can't injure the monster until he accidentally smashes the monster's reflection in one of the mirrors. Conan then starts smashing all of the mirrors until the monster falls to the floor dead.

The scene starts at about 39 minutes. Watch it on YouTube  

 

Ellie's estranged boyfriend Jake is opening a nightclub on the Sunset Strip with statues of monsters and divas. (The divas are scarier.) We see him setting up a mirror maze for the club and talking to her brother Jimmy. During the opening night party Jimmy and his friend run into the smoke-filled mirror maze to hide from Jake, and Ellie follows. Jake catches up with Ellie and tries to make up with her but a werewolf crashes through the glass and chases them all then destroys the club.

The smoke and mirrors start at about 1:03:30

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In a future dystopian Chicago, society is divided into six social groups - five factions plus the outcasts who belong to no faction. Beatrice is a young woman born into the Abnegation faction, whose members prize selflessness and restrain from looking into mirrors because they reject vanity. At age 16 she takes a placement test to find out which of the five factions she belongs in. She drinks some liquid then finds herself in a simulation in a large space full of mirrors with thousands of reflections of herself. She learns that she is Divergent - belonging to no single group - which is not allowed.

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We see Florence Pugh's character Alice through many looking glasses in this movie including multiple images of her in several mirrors behind her bathtub at home and in a nightclub restroom that is lined with mirrors on the walls.

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This is a fictionalized account of the life of martial arts movie superstar Bruce Lee that shows us his life as if he were in one of his own movies. It includes a story line about a giant supernatural demon that frightens Lee throughout his life. At the end of the movie, Lee is filming the room of mirrors scene in the movie "Enter The Dragon" when his mind gets lost in a fantasy world where he is trapped in a mirrored room, then the demon appears and throws him through a mirror to the outside where Lee is finally forced to battle the demon in a climactic fight scene.

The mirrors scene starts at about 1:49:43. Watch it on YouTube

 

Jennifer finds her high school boyfriend Max making out with a girl named Coreen so she tells him off and walks around a carnival. She sees her father who she wants to avoid so she ducks into "Lyla's Labyrinth" which has a mirror maze. Max sees her and follows her inside, and Coreen follows Max. A psycho-killer nicknamed Doctor Giggles has been hunting for Jennifer, and he also follows her into the mirror maze. Max calls out to Jennifer but she tells him to leave her alone. Dr. Giggles kills Coreen then pursues Jennifer. She is startled to see him which causes her to crash through one of the mirrors allowing her to escape.

The scene starts at about 48 min.  

 

A spell was cast on Ella when she was a baby that makes her do anything she is told to do. When the uncle of a prince she loves orders her to kill the prince with a dagger in the Hall of Mirrors at midnight, she fears she can't refuse. But when midnight strikes, she is able to drop the dagger and break the spell.

The scene starts at about 1:13:20. Watch it on YouTube

 

Elvis and his band members go into a hall of mirrors at a carnival. Colonel Tom Parker follows him inside and when Elvis gets confused by all the reflections, Parker says Elvis is lost but he can help him find his way, meaning he can help him deal with all of the fortune and fame he's going to experience. Parker then opens a door and they walk outside where Parker asks Elvis to let him represent him exclusively.

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Bruce Lee fights a man with four large knives on an artificial hand. Trying to kill Lee, the man stabs a spear into a wall panel which turns out to be the revolving entrance into a hall of mirrors. He spins the wall around and enters the hall. Lee follows him and the fight continues with Lee getting confused until he smashes a lot of the mirrors with his feet and his fists.

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Laura Mars has several mirrors on the walls of her bedroom (not reall a hall). At the end the deranged killer stabs his own reflection before coming after her.  

 

A woman who helps police solve murders by making a psychic connection with the murderer connects with another psychic who is also a serial-killing slasher who feeds on his victims' fears. He lets her know that he plans to make her his next victim. When they are connected and she knows he is chasing her she leads him to a traveling carnival where he follows her into a mirror maze called the Chamber of Fear. He laughs telling her he is glad to finally meet her face to face to face in the chamber of fear. She starts smashing his image in the mirrors with a large fireman's flashlight and then hits him directly, making him drop his knife and rush out of the mirror room.

The scene starts at about 1:24:15

 

After a man wakes up from a nightmare in which he kills a man in a room full of mirrors, he suspects that the dream really happened and sets off to find out if it did.

The mirror scenes start at about 1:34, 28:50, and 57: 38.

 

A psycho super soldier on a killing spree chases four people into the hall of mirrors in a Halloween maze. He makes use of the confusion inside to kill more people.

The scene starts at about 1:25:30.

 

Inside a haunted mansion, Nell sees her reflection in a mirror but the person she sees is not herself. She runs terrified into a room full of mirrors with a round floor turning like a carousel where she sees a reflection of herself with a growing belly as if she is rapidly becoming pregnant.

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The private elevator to the 40th floor penthouse of Mr. Royal, the high-rise building's rich architect, is lined with mirrors so that the occupants experience a hall of mirrors effect.

We see the mirrored elevator throughout the film, including at about 16:35, 30:42, 1:07:10, and 1:11:05.  

 

In this movie full of surreal visual symbolism, we see two men wearing tall hats and a nude woman with a movie camera in a room with mirrors on the walls, floor, and ceiling. The men walk around a stone pyramid then break it with an axe.

The scene starts at about 35 min.

 

A writer injects his assistant with a serum that distorts his face and makes him to do whatever he's told. He is ordered to kill his fiancé at a Fun Fair so he takes her into the Tunnel Of Love then stabs her in the heart at the exit. Witnesses call the police, so he runs to hide in the Hall of Mirrors, where people laugh at their own distorted images but scream when they see his real hideous face and the bloody weapon he is still holding.

The Hall of Mirrors appears at about 1:12:08

 

Dom Cobb is a corporate espionage outlaw who steals secrets from the subconscious of his victims in shared dreams, but this time he plans to plant an idea into the mind of a man in the dream. He can't create it himself, so he hires a college student named Ariadne to design the architecture of a shared dream. When he is first teaching her how to build a realistic dream world with him as the subject whose subconscious is projected in the dream, they are both wired up and dreaming that they're walking around in Paris. Still learning what she is capable of doing in the dream, she decides to have a little fun and messes with the physics of the dream world by bending the streets and buildings overhead, defying gravity, then closing two large mirrored doors in the middle of a bike path so they face each other and line up into a hall of mirrors. Then she puts the palm of hand on one of the doors to smash the glass.

The scene starts at about 31:40.

 

James McAvoy's character follows a boy into a funhouse at a carnival then he walks through a hall of mirrors with flashing lights. He finds the boy trapped behind the glass unreachable. Then we see Pennywise behind the boy, smashing the glass with his head to get at the boy.

The scene starts at about 1:44 minutes. Watch it on YouTube

 

John Wick engages in a chase, gunfight, and climactic knife fight in a multi-floor modern art museum exhibit called "Reflections of the Soul" made of halls, rooms, and stairways lined with mirrors with lights and video screens reflected in them.

The scene starts at about 1:36 minutes. Watch it on YouTube

 

Wick fights assassins in a room with glass walls and windows and glass things throughout which reflect what's around them like mirrors.

The scene starts at about 1:50.  

 

(This is not a movie, but it's a great hall of mirrors movie parody.)

In a Season 4, Episode 6 television sketch titled "Hall of Mirrors", Key and Peele make fun of the movie cliche of a chase in a hall of mirrors. We see a detective who has tracked a serial killer into a hall of mirrors, but he has trouble telling what's real and what's a reflection. Even after the detective finds him and shoots him, the serial killer tries to convince him that he's still looking at a reflection in a mirror and not a real person.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoEzrwZFWHU&t=2s

 

In the classic sequence at the end of the movie, Rita Hayworth takes Orson Welles into the Magic Mirror Maze in a funhouse to talk about a murder for money plot, but her husband finds them. They shoot at each other, again and again, breaking mirror after mirror, until they finally hit each other.

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Batman's nemesis the Joker takes over Bruce Wayne's island mansion and turns it into an amusement park. Batman chases him into a funhouse mirror room where the Joker uses the mirrors to confuse Batman as he chastises him, telling him to look in the mirror and see that he is selfishly pushing his friends away. Batman smashes mirrors where he thinks the Joker could be but keeps missing him until he smashes a mirror on the floor and falls out of the room.

The scene starts at about 1:15:00.  

 

The climactic shootout between a gangster and a corrupt cop takes place in a rundown warehouse full of large mirrors standing up on the floor making a maze of mirrors that obscures their locations. Each man keeps trying to shoot the other man but he keeps hitting the mirrors instead, until they have both shot and smashed dozens of mirrors and the whole place starts falling down forcing them to dive out of the building.

The mirrors appear at about 1:16:32  

 

Malone and Evelyn follow a knife-wielding assassin called the Mauler into a hall of mirrors at an amusement park. In the confusion caused by all the reflections, Malone fires his gun at her but his bullets only hit a few mirrors.

The scene starts at about 23 min.

 

As the maze of mirrors scene in the movie The Lady From Shanghai plays in an old movie theater, showing a shootout between a man and a woman, we see a real shootout taking place behind the movie screen in a room that is filled with mirrors that reflect the movie, the real man and woman who are shooting at each other, and Woody Allen's character who is sneaking through the room to rescue his wife.

The scene starts at about 1:39:45  

 

On his secret Chinese Island, villain Scaramanga has a fun house with a small hall of mirrors where we see two chases and gunfights, including one with James Bond.

The Bond fight scene starts at about 1:49:15. Watch it on YouTube

 

Zen-Yi and Silver Lion take their fight into a room in an underground chamber that is lined with mirrors. Candles suddenly light themselves and the two men square off, but they don't make contact until Silver Lion pulls a lever that sends a giant battering ram into Zen Yi's back, knocking him through a mirror and into another room.

In the Unrated Extended Edition the scene starts at about 1:31:36, stops, then continues at about 1:36:40.

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After a huge fight in a nightclub we see people walking down a hallway lined with mirrors.

The scene starts at about 35:25. Watch it on YouTube

 

In a town hosting a carnival, Nessuno, aka Nobody, lures some gunfighters into the "Mirror House," a building full of mirrors, where he taunts them into shooting his many reflections instead of himself.

The scene starts at about 1:05:20.  

 

A high school girl is chased around Santa's Funland amusement park by a gang of local punks with guns. She hides in Santa's House of Mirrors but one of the gunmen enters and quietly searches for her until she sneaks up behind him and gets rid of him.

The scene starts at about 1:15:45. Watch it on YouTube

 

Two young women convince a carnie to let them go after hours into a carnival Crazy House with a maze of mirrors. A throat-slashing serial killer they meet inside makes sure they don't get out.

The scene starts at about 32:44.  

 

This film-noir is a remake of Fear in the Night (1946) by the same director and screenwriter.

After a man wakes up from a nightmare in which he kills a man in a room full of mirrors, he suspects that the dream really happened and sets off to find out if it did.  

   

After the Phantom abducts Christine and takes her to his underground lair, two men trying to rescue her fall into a room lined with mirrors that the title card calls "...the room of many mirrors - - the old torture chamber!" When the Phantom discovers them, he turns up the heat.

 

During a masked ball at the Paris opera house, the Phantom drops through a round trapdoor in a flash of smoke and Raoul jumps down after him, landing in a room full of mirrors which makes it impossible for him to find the Phantom and fight him.

The scene starts at about 1:25:33.

(Maddam Tussauds Wax Museum in London has an interactive Phantom of the Opera mirror maze that visitors can walk through.)

 

The movie opens with two young women in a funhouse mirror maze stalked and murdered by a serial killer.  

 

A mad doctor performs plastic surgery on the face of an escaped convict named Edmond that intentionally makes him look like a monster so he will be subservient to the doctor. When Edmond wakes up from surgery he wants to see what he looks like so the doctor leaves the room then uses a remote control to open several mirrors behind the operating room one by one. Edmond is enraged when he sees himself and shoots the mirrors as the doctor watches and laughs, knowing that his plan will succeed.

The scene starts at about 26:17 mins.

 

Alan, a death-obsessed college student who recently attempted suicide, hitchhikes home on Halloween night to visit his sick mother. Along the way he is plagued by mishaps and frightening visions of the past and future. He is picked up by a ghost named George who says he's a messenger from beyond the grave and forces Alan to choose who will die that night, himself or his mother. Unwilling to make the choice, Alan jumps out of the car and runs through the woods into an amusement park. George chases Alan through the park and into Spooky's Haunted House! of Mirrors. Alan gets lost in the maze of mirrors until he sees George's reflections with his own and runs outside screaming.

The scene starts at about 1:14:23.

 

A traveling swordsman and his female sidekick match wits and swords with the evil members of a once great clan who plan to dominate the martial arts world by stealing a manuscript with instructions that will teach them to make firearms. The climactic scenes include fighting in a treacherously confusing labyrinth of mirrors.  

 

Psychotic supervillain Dick Dastardly needs the talking dog Scooby-Doo for his schee to open the gates of Hell to get some hidden treasure and to recover his lost dog. He tricks Scooby and his friend Shaggy into flying to the abandoned Funland amusement park in Romania where Dastardly and his army of tiny violent shape-shifting robots called "Rottens" are waiting for them. Scooby gets away from the Rottens by running into the labrintul cu oginzi, which is Romanian for mirror labyrinth. Dastardly follows him inside and instead of the usual running around, shooting, and breaking glass in a mirror maze, Dastardly just talks to Scooby and tries to convince him to give up. Scooby refuses then takes advantage of Dastardly's bad temper to escape out the exit door.

The scene starts at about 37:50.

 

The Shadow chases a villain into a room full of mirrors. He first shoots at the mirrors with his pistols but then he uses his mind control powers to smash all the mirrors and subdue Khan.

The mirror room scenes are intercut with other action, starting at about 1:35:41.

Watch the scenes on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybF7eOf_n4s&list=PLZbXA4lyCtqoj_DJCzRS-ljIdqo_gPKH8&index=11 

 

James Bond shoots at his reflection in a hall of mirrors during the opening credits song sequence. Also, when he is inside a Shanghai skyscraper Bond stalks an assassin in an office space with so many glass walls that the reflections resemble a hall of mirrors.

The mirror shots start at about at about 16 minutes. Watch it on YouTube

 

Billionaire Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han) built the world's tallest building in Hong Kong with a giant sphere on top. He gives Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) a tour of the sphere, demonstrating the 317 motion-sensitive projection panels that rise from the floor to create the effect of a maze of mirrors. After bad guys set fire to the skyscraper to rob Zhao, he and Sawyer lure them inside the sphere and activate the mirror maze for a climactic gunfight.

The scene starts at about 1:19. Watch it on YouTube

 

Mr. Dark uses his Pandemonium Carnival's haunted carousel and evil mirror maze to cast a spell on a small town and damn its sinful inhabitants. The town librarian's son discovers the secret of the carnival, so Mr. Dark kidnaps him. The boy's father goes into the mirror maze to confront Mr. Dark and get his son back.

The scene starts at about 1:23:52. Watch it on YouTube

 

Spider-man is punched by a giant fist that sends him crashing through a mirror into another dimension. Large jagged pieces of broken mirror fall all around him, becoming imbedded in the ground and putting him in a hall of mirrors full of reflections of himself. He reaches out to touch one of the images, but it and all of the images start fighting him.

The scene starts at about 1:19. Watch it on YouTube

 

On the sacred Jedi planet of Ahch-To, Rey swims up to a mirror cave that is strong with the energy of the Force, hoping to learn more about her identity and her abilities. Inside the cave she sees herself reflected into infinity, but she believes the line of images can't go on forever and must be leading somewhere and at the end will show her what she came to see.

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We see a girl in a hall of mirrors with a ghostly woman in white then later she and two others chase the same ghost in a hall of mirrors until the mirrors break. (And she understands that the woman in white is the original singer of The Suicide Song.)

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Tango and Cash fight their way into Yves Perret's hideout. Automatic doors slide open to reveal a hall of mirrors with Perret holding Tango's kidnapped sister Kiki at gunpoint. Tango and Cash stand dumbfounded for a bit until they both figure out which Perret is the real one, count to three, then both shoot him between the eyes.

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A bunch of upper class college students go into the mirror maze at an amusement park. In the comic confusion of the maze a couple gets separated then re-united, a girl overhears catty things said about her by the other girls who don't know she's listening, and wealthy Phil (Lew Ayres) tries to apologize to working girl Jane (Lana Turner) for forgetting that he invited her to the party when he had another date - his fiancé, but she puts him in his place.

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Tom and Thomas are twin boys who were abandoned then separated at birth and don't know they have a twin brother, but they have an empathic connection and sense that their twin exists. Tom escapes from the institute where he lives and hides in the mirror room attraction at a Space Museum. Thomas, goes to the museum with his stepfather and goes into the mirror room where he sees reflections of himself and of Tom, who is dressed like him but not exactly. Both boys are confused by the other boy's reflections until Thomas reaches out and touches Tom and finds out that he is a real boy, but they have to separate before they can talk. Thomas returns to the museum later that night where Tom is held by a security guard. He helps Tom escape so they can finally be together.

The mirror room scenes are at approximately 34:50 and 39:30 min.

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When he's a young boy, Tommy's widowed mother meets a man called Uncle Frank. During a musical montage we see a young Tommy and his mother and Frank at an amusement park on the rides and playing games in the arcade. Then we see Tommy dancing in a hall of mirrors, joined by his weeping mother and Frank. Later in the movie his mother throws him through a mirror and he is no longer deaf and blind.

The scene starts at about 21 min.  

 

A young girl enters an amusement park park attraction called "Vision Quest" where she walks through a dark room full of mirrors and sees another girl who looks exactly like herself.

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Katy, an 8-year-old girl with demonic psychic powers, is threatened by an alien visitor in the form of an old man who is fighting against her and the evil group that wants to use her and her mother. She chases the old man around town using her psychic powers to try to kill him but he gets away. He goes into an entertainment theater with a hall of mirrors. She follows him inside, screaming "Come out you bastard!" and smashing the mirrors with her fists and then with her psychic powers, but she doesn't catch him.

The scene starts at about 1:24:30. Watch it on YouTube  

 

Trying to escape an evil Warlock, a circus sideshow boss runs into the House of Wonders mirror maze. He runs around but can't find the way out, all the while hearing the Warlock's ominous voice telling him he can't escape. Finally he steps right through one of the mirrors into what the Warlock calls "the other side of reality," a terrible nightmare realm where he will be trapped for eternity.

The scene starts at about 48 min.

 

An American family rents an isolated house in the English countryside. The teenage daughter Jan looks in a mirror and sees the image of Karen, a teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared 30 years earlier while blindfolded. Later Jan goes to an amusement park on a date with a boy where she walks into a hall of mirrors. At first she has fun looking at all the images of herself, but then she sees an image of Karen in the mirrors blindfolded and begging for help, and she gets scared and runs outside. Jan decides that Karen must be telling her to try to find out what really happened the night she disappeared.

The scene starts at about 47:22.  

 

The nuclear reactor in Sebastian Shaw's submarine is inside a large room lined with mirrors that help to shield his mind from being read by telepath Charles Xavier. When Shaw fights Magneto in the reactor room, the glass breaks and Shaw's mind becomes readable.

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A dinosaur-hunting caveman and his girlfriend are separated and searching for each other on an island of futuristic people. They have never even seen a mirror when they separately enter a mirror maze. They are confounded when they see so many reflections of the other person and cry out, wondering which person is real until they bump into each other in the flesh and walk out together.

The scene starts at about 1:06:52. Watch it on YouTube

 

Zed is an outcast who wants to destroy the superior beings who have deceived and enslaved his people. He sneaks into their world and encounters their master, an artificial intelligence known as the Eternal Tabernacle, which inhabits a large diamond crystal. The Tabernacle knows that Zed is trying to destroy it, so it traps him inside the center of the crystal, which looks like a large hall of mirrors. Zed runs back and forth, seeing all sorts of reflections of himself and the Eternals, who are screaming in agony. Zed shoots his pistol then the Tabernacle tells him "You have destroyed us. You found the flaw in the crystal." Zed then shoots and kills an image of his former self and is once again outside of the crystal.

Like most halls of mirrors, this one shows up in the climax near the end of the movie, beginning at about 1:30:45.

 

We see Zazie and others on stairs in a doorway with mirrors on each side that produce a hall of mirrors effect.