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Boy's image in a distorting mirror. A distorting mirror, funhouse mirror or carnival mirror is a popular attraction at carnivals and fairs. [1] Instead of a normal plane mirror that reflects a perfect mirror image, distorting mirrors are curved mirrors, often using convex and concave sections to achieve the distorted effect. [2]
The climax of the 1947 Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai takes place in a maze of mirrors. In the finale of Enter the Dragon (1973), Bruce Lee's character navigates a mirror maze by breaking through the mirrors. Francisco Scaramanga's "Fun House" in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun has a house of mirrors.
Today the most well-known of Ritchel's inventions is the funhouse mirror, originally dubbed by the inventor as "Ritchel's Laugh-O-Graphs." The curved and specially shaped mirrors reflect amusing, distorted images of anyone standing in front of them. Some credit Ritchel with inventing rollerskates. He did invent a toy bank in the shape of a ...
Stashed neatly in my busting-at-the seams "idea file" is this page from Vogue's May 2005 "Most Fashionable Ideas For Your Home" feature. In it, designer Behnaz Sarafpour stands in a dainty party ...
The Funhouse was written by Larry Block, and the script was purchased by Universal Pictures, who were looking to produce a teen-aimed horror film after the success of Paramount's Friday the 13th (1980). [10] Tobe Hooper, who had recently completed the miniseries Salem's Lot (1979) for Warner Bros., was offered to direct The Funhouse. [11]
Manhattan-based dermatologist Dr. Brendan Camp, M.D., said that toasted skin syndrome, officially known as erythema ab igne (EAI), is a "pattern of discoloration that occurs in areas of skin after ...
The woman accused of stabbing a postal worker to death over a spot in line at a Harlem deli has a long history of knife violence — and once threatened “to cut” one of her previous victims.
Writing for Dread Central, Drew Tinnin found that "There’s a great balance of technical artistry and funhouse fright that keep the momentum building through every story," summarizing that "V/H/S/94 hits the same high notes as the original entry and even has some new twists and turns of its own," and rating it 3.5/5.