Supernatural

Bloody Mary: Season 1, Episode 5, Wriite by: Ron Milbauer & Terri Hughes Burton

                This episode begins with a game of truth or dare at a little girl’s slumber party. One of the girls picks “dare” and is dared to say “Bloody Mary” three times in the bathroom mirror. We then see the girl’s father in the upstairs bathroom mirror, where he sees a reflection of himself while his eyes are being scratched out; suddenly his eyes start bleeding. The girl’s sister, Donna, comes home to find her father lying on the floor dead with his eyes gouged out. In the next scene, Sam and Dean have arrived in the town to investigate the strange death. They first visit the father’s daughters, where they learn the little girl was playing Bloody Mary that night. Curious, Sam and Dean go up to the bathroom where the father died; however, they are interrupted when Donna’s friend, Charlie, catches them and demands to know why they are snooping. Sam and Dean explain to Charlie that Donna’s father may not, as she had thought, died of a stroke.  The next day Charlie, still pretty wigged out about what she had learned, calls her friend Jill and tells her that the father might have been killed by Bloody Mary. Jill then goes to the bathroom mirror where she says “Bloody Mary” three times, thenscreams. Charlie is listening over the phone line and is really freaked out, but when she hears Jill’s mocking laugh, she hangs up, believing Jill was simply mocking her. Later that night, Jill is at her mirror and, looking at her reflection, sees her eyes being scratched out. The next thing we know Jill is dead with her eyes gouged out. Charlie calls Sam and Dean telling them everything. Sam and Dean ask to get into Jill’s room to see if there is any evidence.  Sam finds the name of a little boy written on the mirror. It belongsto a boy Jill killed in a hit and run accident.  The trio then goes over to Donna’s house to see if anything is written on the mirror. They see Donna’s mother’s name, implying that the father killed his own wife. At school,Charlie decides to tell Donna about Mary; Donna gets so upset she says Bloody Mary in the bathroom mirror. Charlie starts to see Bloody Mary and calls Sam and Dean. Charlie tells them she walked out on her boyfriend and he killed himself and that is why Mary is hunting her. Sam comes up with an idea to kill Mary, suggesting they summon her and then smash the mirror.However, when Sam goes to a mirror and summons Mary, she overpowers him. Just as he is about to get his eyes gouged out, Dean comes running in and smashes the mirror.

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Comment:

In my opinion, this episode from season one is one of the scariest episodes of Supernatural. Unfortunately, in more recent episodes, the creators have moved away from this concept, and made the episodes more serious.  That takes away from some of the fantasy and therefore the fun. But I still love the new episodes.

I appreciate how the creators have researched the legends involving Bloody Mary, many of which have her gouging people’s eyes out.  The episode takes an old legend, but makes the more realistic and therefore scarier.

What is fun about this episode is that it takes a game many girls have played at slumber parties and the next time they play it – if they dare -- the game will be even scarier.