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Sci Fi shows/movies with people walking through mirrors.

Literally walking through a mirror? Into a 'mirror world?

Red Dwarf Only The Good
 
Yes Shazam, through a mirror, into a mirror world? well I dunno on that, more into another dimension I would say. Perhaps it's the same thing. Mirrors are a metaphysical sort of concept. Makes for a good Sci Fi theme/prop I reckon. Ozzy's leg goes through one on the back cover of Sabbath's Sabotage album.
 
Legend. There's an amazing bit of optical trickery pre-CGI to allow Darkness to step out of a mirror.
 
In regards to fantasy, Conan the Destroyer has a wizard that exists through mirrors. Alice in Wonderland has characters going through mirrors as does the miniseries The Tenth Kingdom.

On TV, ST:TNG "Contagion" has Picard, Data, & Worf travel through the Iconian Gateways, which are mirror-like. Farscape has a problem with mirrors in "Through the Looking Glass."
 
Jimi had a tune caled Room full of Mirrors, later redone by The Pretenders. Not a movie I know.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors
All i could see was me
Well i take my spirit and i crash my mirrors
Now the whole world is here for me to see
 
In the film "Legend," the Lord of Darkness appears to Lilly by stepping out from within a mirror.

A whole Lost in Space episode was built around an alternate dimension existing behind mirrors, and Penny was pulled thru to find Michael J. Pollard living there.
 
'The Mighty Boosh' in the episode Bollo, Zookeeper Vince Noir steps through a mirror into Mirror World, inhabited by the lovely Mr. Susan, guardian of the Mirrors. There are over 17 mirrors in the mirror world!
 
Yeah, Legend was one of the more dramatically impressive takes on the "Mirror" thing I'd seen.
 
Another Dr. Who I recently watched, whose title I've forgotten - the last show in the E-Space trilogy.
 
I'm not going to discuss movies other than to mention The Matrix, but I wanted to bring up a 2 novel series by Stephen R. Donaldson called Mordant's Need circa '86-'87. The story begins with the Mirror of her Dreams and concludes in A Man Rides Through. The entire magic system in these books is based on traveling through mirrors and pulling things from them. These are my personal favorite reads from Donaldson barring one or two short stories from The Daughter of Regals. I enjoyed it a good deal more than either the Thomas Covenant novels or the Gap Cycle.
 
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