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Deadly Bath
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Taking a bath is risky business, at least in entertainment media. Nine times out of ten, either something happens to interrupt the bath, or you die. This is the latter. In part, this is due to the Law of Conservation of Detail . The only reason to show somebody doing something as mundane as bathing is because something narratively important is going to happen during that bath — unless it's just for Fanservice. And it isn't hard to see why the bathtub or shower would be such a common place for murderers to show up. Bathing is when you're at your most vulnerable; relaxed, alone, naked, possibly with water in your eyes, in a small room that usually has one door and no windows. Or, alternatively, it's a Bath Suicide; a time that should be relaxing and pleasant becomes suddenly awful. Whether murder or suicide, there may be an Electrified Bathtub involved. The "Psycho" Shower Murder Parody is a particularly common example of this trope — or a subversion, depending on the humor content. A Deadly Bath will very commonly lead directly to Blood Is Squicker in Water. Paranoid and/or Genre Savvy characters may feel they Can't Bathe Without a Weapon in anticipation of this trope. Whenever it's a killer or monster that's the cause of death, the victim is always a woman for some reason. A Candlelit Bath can easily turn into one of these when it isn't turning to romance. Subtrope of the Bathtub Scene, Shower Scene. Almost always overlaps with Toilet Horror. Not to be confused with Blood Bath. As a Death Trope, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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Played with in an episode of the 1994 revival of Burke's Law, entitled "Who Killed the Starlet?" A woman is relaxing in a candlelit bath while listening to some music. A killer sneaks in and drops her boombox into the bathtub, killing her. It turns out that the killer and girl are merely actors on a movie set, and they're filming a murder scene. Then it turns out the boombox was plugged into a live outlet by an unknown party, and the actress in the bathtub is really dead. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child: Played with as well. Alice is taking a shower when it turns out she's dreaming and the shower cabin starts filling up with water. She jumps out through a portal that just appears, but it's to lead her to something more dangerous. | |
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In Sherlock Holmes (2009), Lord Blackwood kills his father in the bathtub through the use of a paralytic activated by Sir Thomas's ring. | |
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Played with in Poltergeist, where a silent scene of Diane taking a bath is intercut with shots of the children sleeping alone to build tension for the start of Round 2 with the ghosts. | |
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In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco is ambushed while taking a bubble-bath by a one-armed man who he wronged in the past. While his left hand isn't his best, he had plenty of time to take aim at Tuco while he's naked and helpless in the bathtub. Then subverted when Tuco shoots him with his gun hidden under the bubbles. | |
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Double subverted in the first A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Nancy falls asleep in the tub and Freddy's bladed glove pops out of the water, but she wakes up in time for nothing to happen. When she dozes off again, he suddenly drags her under into a huge underwater space that he created with his dream powers, and she almost drowns. | |
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Bones: In "The Body In The Bag", the Victim of the Week was found dead in the shower, having turned into a skeleton after being there for days with hot water pouring over her. The team even has to go through the pipes to collect more body parts as evidence. | |
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CSI: NY: "Heart of Glass" had a woman who had filled a bath with rose petals and water end up electrocuting herself. In "Flag on the Play," the body of a lingerie football player is found in the whirlpool tub in the team's changing room. |
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An episode of Psych had a killer picking off members of a sorority, one of them by throwing a toaster into her bath. | |
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Cannon: In "Dead Pigeon", an elderly Con Man is drowned in his bathtub - fully clothed - after he speaks to Cannon. | |
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In Wish Upon, August slips while getting into the bath, cracks his head on the edge of the tub, and drowns. | |
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The Trinity killer from Dexter murders women in their bathtubs. Eventually, he takes revenge on Dexter by killing Rita this way. | |
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Defied in Soul of the Sword, when Nameless was ambushed by an assassin while in a bathhouse. However, Nameless bathes with his sword, where he reacts on time to grab a towel and fight his assailant, who gets killed and falling into his tub instead. Cue a shot of the tub over-spilling with bloodied water. | |
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Motive: In "Index Case", the Victim of the Week is killed when his murderer release toxic gas in his flotation tank. | |
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Johannes Cabal: In "A Long Spoon", an Evil Sorcerer attempts to dispose of the title character from a distance by transmuting his bathwater into concentrated sulphuric acid. However, his timing is a bit off, so Johannes isn't yet in the tub and loses his loofah instead of his life. | |
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The "girl goes to take a shower with the psycho in the house" variation is subverted in Hard Candy. When the man holding the knife bursts into the bathroom and pulls back the shower curtain, he finds it empty. Then the girl runs in from behind and stunguns him into submission. | |
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In Mirror Mirror (1990), Megan harnesses the mirror's powers to scald Alpha Bitch Charleen to death in the girls' locker room showers. Later, a doppelganger of Nikki drowns Ron in the bathtub in Nikki's house. | |
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In Spring Breakers, Big Arch is relaxing is his hot tub when he is shot and killed by Brit and Candy. | |
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In the original I Spit on Your Grave Jennifer kills the leader of the men who raped her by seducing him into taking a hot bath with her, then slicing his nuts off causing him to bleed out. | |
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In Queen of the Tearling, an assassin surprises Kelsea in the bath, which is the only location where her male bodyguard doesn't follow her. | |
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Subverted in the Supernatural episode "Dead in the Water" a vengeful spirit drowns people by pulling them into the water. After a case at the lake, a case involving a kitchen-sink and another one at the lake, a woman is being drowned in her bathtub, but the Big Damn Heroes arrive in the nick of time to pull her out. | |
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In Mirrors (American remake of a Korean film Into the Mirror) the main character's sister draws herself a bath.... guess who dies in one of the most painful and gruesome scenes of the film? A bath is used again but this time all the taps in the house have been turned on and the mother goes to turn the tap off... | |
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And The Cranberries singer Delores O’Riorden, though she was just drunk. | |
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The description of Jamoh Hogra's Battle Armor in Knights of the Old Republic reads: "Jamoh Hogra was a Zabrak mercenary who feared for his life after a raid on a Sith dreadnought. He spent a fortune on his personal armor, only to be killed while in the bath." | |
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There's two examples in Spartacus Bloodand Sand which happen in the same scene. Glaber's peaceful bath is interrupted by Seppia who smashes a vase on his head in an attempt to murder him. She would have succeeded if Ilithyia hadn't snuck up on her to slit her throat. |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: Double subverted in the first A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Nancy falls asleep in the tub and Freddy's bladed glove pops out of the water, but she wakes up in time for nothing to happen. When she dozes off again, he suddenly drags her under into a huge underwater space that he created with his dream powers, and she almost drowns. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child: Played with as well. Alice is taking a shower when it turns out she's dreaming and the shower cabin starts filling up with water. She jumps out through a portal that just appears, but it's to lead her to something more dangerous. |
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The Order of the Stick: Haley interrupts her nemesis Crystal in the shower, knocks on her apartment door, and peppers her with arrows when she answers it in only a Modesty Towel despite knowing Haley's in town. | |
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Discussed in The Dick Van Dyke Show episode "Long Night's Journey into Day". Laura is sitting out a two-family fishing trip, having gotten a cold. Right before she leaves, Millie advises Laura against taking a shower, because Psycho is on her mind. When Laura decides to take a shower before bed, it takes her a few minutes to psych herself up. Even then, she has to bring the Helpers' parrot into the room. Eventually, Millie returns and figures out that Laura is showering. She mutters about how brave her friend is. | |
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In probably the most infamous scene in Jack Frost (1997), Jill takes a bath and basically gets raped to death by the evil killer snowman. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: The Torture Technician Colonel DeHaans is Eaten Alive in his shower by the sapient Blob Monster Sergeant Schlock, who has a personal grudge, can fit through the drain, and knows that there's no surveillance equipment there to betray his actions to DeHaans' co-conspirators. | |
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In What Lies Beneath, Norman drugs and paralyzes Claire and starts to make it look like she drowned in the bathtub. A Vengeful Ghost startles and causes Norman to hit his head out cold, and Claire regains enough movement to stop the faucet and lift the drain cover. | |
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Father Brown: The second Victim of the Week in "The Theatre of the Invisible" is found dead in a bathtub. It looks as if he has killed himself but, of course, it's Never Suicide. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Varied in an episode where a beautiful woman has drawn a perfumed, candlelit bath, not just for relaxation but to entertain her married lover. They have a quarrel, she threatens to tell his wife about their relationship, and he drowns her in the bath. Another episode dealt with a woman whose son was accused of pushing a heater into her bath, and though the water was cold, there were candles and the tub was full. She, of course, is electrocuted, and while they try to decipher her murder they find out that she knocked the heater into the bathtub herself. |
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In Spirit Hunter: NG, Kaoru's potential death in the Urashima case happens when they take a bath after the Urashima Woman is destroyed. They're found there in bloody water with turtles spewing out of their mouth. | |
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Both subverted and played straight in The X-Files on several occasions. Scully's penchant for taking these led to a straight use in "Squeeze", a subversion in "Chinga" (the music builds, we're sure something creepy's going to happen, the phone rings and... it's Mulder, he's bored), and an extremely creepy straight use in "Irresistable" ("Is your hair color-treated?")...and a hilarious one in "Hollywood A.D.". | |
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Smallville has several: In the first season, Sean Kelvin attacks his ex-girlfriend in the shower, under the guise of a Shower of Love, in order to literally steal her body heat. She ends up frozen solid and toppling over, shattering to pieces on the bathroom floor. Also in Season 1, Lex's new girlfriend Victoria is attacked by the villain of the week, an invisible assailant. He ends up trying to drown her in the bathtub, but she is saved by Clark after she makes enough noise to alert him. In Season 4 Lana is attacked in the shower by a freak of the weak who strangles her with the shower curtain. She's rescued when her boyfriend Jason hears the commotion. |
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In the final season of Damages, the whistleblower's murder is staged as a suicide in a full bathtub. | |
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Inspector Rex: In the episode "Das Donaukrokodil", the murderer prepares a bath for her sister with strange algae (water of the Danube) and eventually drowns her. The killer leaves the body at the Danube. | |
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In The Borgias, Micheletto tries to kill Della Rovere at a public bath, but he fails because someone else sees him underwater and yells a warning before he can actually get close to Della Rovere. | |
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The Scholomance: Defied by the students of the titular Wizarding School. The place is infested by so many monsters that people only use the showers when they have friends standing guard. | |
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Inside No. 9: In "The Last Weekend", what Chas thinks is a nice relaxing mud bath is actually this. The 'mud' that Joe filled the bath with is quick-drying cement. He spikes Chas' drink with Xanax and by the time Chas wakes up, the cement has solidified, trapping him. | |
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In B-movie Pod People, Kathy goes up to take a shower while the vengeful alien is running amok. Quoth Tom Servo, "She's Zestfully dead!" | |
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Shivers: A woman is quietly bathing when one of the parasites crawls in through the plughole. It then forces itself into her body through a very uncomfortable opening. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles: The first Body of the Week in "Partners in Crime" is drowned in her hot tub after first having been stunned by being electrocuted. | |
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In Julia X, Julia goes to take a bath to de-stress and relax after her argument with Jessica. While she is doing so, The Stranger breaks loose from the kitchen and creeps into the bathroom planning to kill her. She is alerted to his presence when his blood drips into her bathwater. | |
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Death in Paradise: In "Until Death Do You Part", the Victim of the Week is a bride-to-be drowned in her bath on the final night of her week-long hen do. | |
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More than one murder in Case Closed took place when someone (either the victim or the killer) was taking a Japanese traditional bath. Once the victim was was electrocuted while bathing, at another time an old man was attacked in his bath tub and killed his attacker in self-defense. | |
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In Children of the Corn: Revelation a stripper/exotic dancer decides to take a candlelit bath... and ends up killed by cornstalks. | |
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Jenny is slashed to death by the killer while showering in Night After Night After Night. | |
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A character in Cabin Fever attempts to soothe her Gorn-battered nerves with a lantern-lit bath. As the gruesome disease in the film is water-borne, this is not a wise move. | |
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The Magician: In "Lady in a Trap", the thief who masterminded the theft of a rare book is drowned in his bath by the Dirty Cop who arrives to collect the loot. | |
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In Stardust, Lamia kills Primus in her inn's bath by cutting his throat. | |
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An episode of Six Feet Under had the corpse-of-the-week die when her cat knocked her electric hot rollers into the tub. | |
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Likewise for Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, but with opiates instead of cocaine. | |
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In the film Stigmata, Frankie steps into her candlelit bath to relax, only to be suddenly struck with a vision of the last tortured moments of the Messiah, complete with wounds opening in her wrists. | |
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In Clegg, Suzy slips Lord Cruikshank a mickey, then lures him into the shower with her. She then strangles him and finishes the job by drowning him in the bath. | |
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In the German film The Princess and the Warrior (2000), the trope is played straight in a flashback when a mental ward patient throws a hair dryer into a bathtub used by Sissi's mother. Later, a fugitive hiding from the law in the same mental institution is relaxing after a botched heist in the same bathtub, and the same patient (believing Sissi has fallen for him) throws a toaster at him. He instinctively catches it, and both stare in shock at each other for a moment before the fugitive leaps up with murder in his eyes. | |
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Road to Perdition: Michael Sullivan shoots Connor Rooney dead in a bathtub, in revenge for killing half of Michael's family. | |
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Discussed and invoked by the cult's plot in Simon Dark. The cult is spreading a zombie-like possession via little shadowy demonic entities in soap, so the victims tend to die shortly after their baths but the idea that a bath is dangerous is brought up as everyone's paranoia runs rampant. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: Gillian Darmody kills Roger McAllister, a young man who looks a lot like her dead son Jimmy, in a bathtub in a perverse effort to gain closure for the latter's death. With Jimmy declared officially dead, she would inherit the (whore-)house as well. Attempted offscreen by Owen Sleater on Joe Masseria in a Turkish bath. Unfortunately, it's 1923 and Masseria still will be active in the organized crime world until 1931. Masseria and his men manage to turn the tables on Owen, and ship his body back to Nucky in a box. |
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CSI There was an episode where a woman was drowned in a bathtub by her employer, just because she was causing him to lose by messing up his Feng Shui. Note that both she and her employer had apparently enjoyed such baths on many previous occasions without incident. Averted in another episode where the bathtime preparations do lead to a bloody corpse, but all the damage was self-inflicted. An episode involved a man who killed his wife while she was taking a bath (he pressed her head underwater until she drowned), then made it look like an accident. |
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In the controversial ad campaign for the Hitman game Blood Money, the "Shockingly Executed" ad◊ features a dead woman who has been electrocuted by a toaster in a romantic candlelit bath. | |
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A Touch Of Jen: Just as she's drawing a bath, Remy visits Jen, then drowns her in the bathtub. | |
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Millennium (1996): Barely averted in "Blood Relatives." The killer is about to kill the woman whom Frank Black had been helping while she was in the bath; fortunately for her, Frank had a vision of this and doubled back to her place. The fight between Frank and the assailant is tense. | |
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Subverted in Addams Family Values: Debbie tries to kill Fester by tossing a radio into the tub, but it only gives him a tickling jolt. If she paid enough attention and got to know even a little her future husband she would have known that Fester often displays his ability to light lightbulbs with his mouth. | |
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Also Pete Farndon of The Pretenders, who shot himself up with heroin in the tub, then passed out and drowned. | |
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Midsomer Murders: The first Victim of the Week in "Fit for Murder" is drowned in a flotation pool at a spa. Joyce discovers the corpse when she goes for treatment. | |
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In What Remains of Edith Finch, Edith recounts that when her grandmother received a phone call from her husband and stepped away from bathing her infant son, Gregory. What happens next will... probably not shock you. | |
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The Professional has Norman Stansfield kill Mathilda's stepmom with his shotgun while she's bathing. | |
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One episode of Diagnosis: Murder showed a guy giving a girl a shoulder massage as she lay in the tub, then suddenly pushing her under the water and drowning her. | |
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Friends: Comically Double Subverted when Chandler accidentally orders Monica Coke instead of Diet Coke and gets pinched underwater. | |
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In The Sopranos episode "Denial, Anger, Acceptance", Brendan Filone is inside his bathtub when Mikey Palmice visits him to deliver a Moe Greene Special on Junior's orders. | |
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In Deadly Advice, G.J. Smith explains to Jodie how he drowned his wives in the bath by yanking on their ankles and pulling them under the water: which is illustrated with a flashback. | |
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A variation of this trope was put into historical context in Desperate Romantics. Elizabeth Siddal is posing for Millais as Ophelia in a tub of cold water heated by candles. She almost drowns when the candles go out, the water cools down and she loses consciousness. Her parents are understandably not too happy. | |
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