History Main / RoomFullOfCrazy

* In the MadeForTVMovie ''Murder at my Door'', one of the many, ''many'' signs of Teddy being unhinged is the collection of newspaper headlines and photos about the murders that he's cut out and pasted all over the back wall of his closet, complete with X's drawn over the victims' eyes.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] the level of insanity present in ''Film/TheRoom''.

* ''Film/TheAccountant''. The title character, an accountant who has high-functioning autism, is shown during a HardWorkMontage doing the books on a robotics company and writing the numbers on first the whiteboard, then the glass walls of the office they've given him. He actually starts acting most disturbed when the company shuts down his investigation prematurely and gets the cleaners to remove the numbers from the walls.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' utilizes the non-paranoid version. Twilight spends an entire weekend locked in her library preparing for some unspecific disaster by "monitoring everything". When Pinkie checks up on her, she finds her among blackboards and posters covered in scribbles and equations, as well as enough lab equipment to give a scientist a heart attack. [[spoiler: Turns out there was no disaster at all.]]

** [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] in the "Treehouse Of Horror V" story "The Shinning", parodying ''Film/TheShining''. In the original, Jack at one point had typed an entire pack of sheets with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" arranged like it was actual text. In "The Shinning", seeking to understand Homer's newfound madness, Marge walks up to a typewriter he's been using and pulls out his paper, which has a single phrase typed on it; "Feelin' fine." After breathing a sigh of relief, a lightning strike illuminates the room, which is covered with scrawls of "No TV and no beer make Homer go crazy." Marge is ''less'' encouraged:

** "The Bob Next Door",
*** The words "Bart Simpson will die" are written all over Sideshow Bob's prison cell. [[spoiler: This is actually a subversion, because it was meant as a warning from the guy [[ItMakesSenseInContext who had Bob's face at the time]]. It's lampshaded by Marge when she points out that his choice of words left a lot up to interpretation.]]
*** Played straight with [[spoiler: the inside of Bob-in-disguise's bedroom, which is covered with stabbed photos of Bart with "KILL" written on them, along with [[CallBack one photo of Krusty]] and [[RuleOfFunny a note about buying milk]]]].
----> '''Homer Simpson''': [[{{Understatement}} Wow, this guy really hates Bart.]]
** In "Who Shot Mr. Burns: Part 1", Homer is frustrated that Mr. Burns can never remember his name, so he sneaks into Mr. Burns' office and spray-paints "I Am Homer Simpson" all over the walls. After Burns asks "Who the devil are you?" when he catches him, [[RageBreakingPoint Homer loses his temper]] and shakes him shouting "Homer Simpson! My name is Homer Simpson!" before security guards drag him out.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' the Dollars chatroom blows up with crazy anytime Saika shows up. Incredibly fast spam messages full of crazy cover the chatroom. They consist of such delightful phrases as "Cutcutcutcutcutcut" or cries for mother.

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[[caption-width-right:240:"She's just cheating up her UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo word count."]]

A detective/doctor/family member can stumble across rooms full of these kinds of paranoid obsessive ramblings and realize that they are AloneWithThePsycho. It's not unusual for this moment of discovery to be quickly followed by an attempt on the discoverer's life by the owner of the room. These rooms can be also be susceptible to cases of [[ItWasHereISwear vanishings as well]]. (Curse you, Pine Sol!)

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[[caption-width-right:248:"She's just cheating up her UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo word count."]]

** A subtle use of this trope is Doctor Ritsuko Akagi, NERV's resident HotScientist. At first her tendency to leave post-it notes all over her cubicle and the MAGI computer makes Ritsuko seem like she's just a {{workaholic}} with a [[CrazyCatLady liking for cats]], but in the second half of the series we realise she's [[MadScientist seriously disturbed]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Serenity}}: Those Left Behind'' shows [[spoiler: Dobson]] living in a room decorated with [[DartboardOfHate pictures of Mal]] and phrases like "Kill Reynolds" scrawled over every surface. As he explains to the men sent to find him; "I don't want Serenity... I want Reynolds. You could say I'm... [[{{Understatement}} preoccupied]] with the idea."

* In ''Film/{{Knowing}}'', the precognitive little girl who predicts the series of disasters cumulating in [[spoiler: the end of the world]] turns out to have spent her last days in a veritable ''mobile home'' full of crazy, containing several walls covered with deeply significant newspaper clippings and [[spoiler: the revelation everyone was going to die]] carved repeatedly into the underside of the bed.
* The eponymous work of ''Film/TheLastWillOfDrMabuse'', written by a former criminal genius gone mad who is unresponsive except for his hand which keeps writing whether he has pen and paper or not. Seemingly scrawled gibberish, the pages assembled in the right order form [[spoiler: a manual to bring about the "Reign of Crime", and meaningless but terrifying crimes around Germany demonstrate someone's read the manual ...]]

* ''Film/TowerOfTerror'' features a variation of this: [[spoiler: Abigail Gregory has a trunk filled with photos of Sally Shine with her face cut out, a doll of Sally with her head partially decapitated, and the words "HATE", "PAIN" and "BAD" written all over the photos and newspapers in red and black]].

** Note that the type of crazy varies by Chaos deity. When Commissar Literature/CiaphasCain breaks into a [[HornyDevils Slaaneshi]] cult's retreat in ''The Traitor's Hand'', the soldiers with him are hypnotized by the insane yet entrancing erotic murals all over the walls.

* ''Film/Red2''. Frank Moses and Victoria Brown discover that the weapons scientist who invented the MacGuffin has been imprisoned in an [=MI6=] psychiatric ward for thirty years. When they break into his cell, the equations written on the walls are the first sign that getting anything plot-relevant out of him is going to be difficult.

* Suki in ''Film/TheScribbler'' suffers from SplitPersonality syndrome. Her most dominant personality is the titular Scribbler, who - when in control of her - makes her compulsively write backwards, on any piece of paper or blank surface available.

* ''Film/TheShining'': Features one of the more iconic examples of this trope. Writer Jack Torrance has taken a job as winter caretaker for a hotel with the hopes that the lack of distractions (and lack of alcohol) will let him work on his novel. Some weeks in he is showing signs of going crazy and his wife stumbles on his manuscript, reams of paper with one sentence "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" typed over and over and over again.

* In ''Film/TheSkinILiveIn'', the endless scribbles and artsy sketches that Vera's room is covered in? They didn't come with the room. Vicente/Vera made them him/herself to hold on to sanity.

* An odd version of this trope turns up in the anime film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}''. Tima, after being taken into the custody of the man who had her created in the first place and being denied access to Kenichi, the boy on whom she'd imprinted, proceeds to scrawl his name all over the walls and windows of the luxury bedroom she was given. This was especially powerful, given how innocent Tima's character is, and scares the maid that brings her a change of clothes witless. All the same though, it was more Tima sulking than anything truly horrific or psychological.

** Her mother, Naoko, [[GenerationXerox is almost exactly the same way.]] When they have to get inside the Caspar core, its entire inside is covered with post-its, with almost no space left free. At least one reads "Ikari! YOU JERK!"

* In surreal anime film ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'', Himuro has an entire apartment full of crazy. There are shelves filled with broken toys and dolls (all of them move and make noises), walls coated with photos of himself and his friend Tokita (with Tokitas's face cut out) and little lit-up signs that say "help me." [[spoiler: This signifies the fact that the dream world has overwhelmed his mind.]]

* A ''Film/{{Se7en}}''-like variant occurs in ''Manga/NijigaharaHolograph''. Maki's boss has a room over his cafe which contains a doll which he believes is Arié sitting at a table, along with ''hundreds'' of diaries of what he thinks is her account of what is supposed to happen when the world ends.

* The Japanese horror film ''Film/{{Kairo}}'', which was remade (badly) as ''Film/{{Pulse}}'', has a scene where one of the ghost-touched victims on her way to becoming an EmptyShell scrawls the word ''tasukete'' ("Help me") all over her bedroom walls in messy black script.

If the Room Full of Crazy is specific enough, for example, only part of a wall is covered with photos of the same subject, it may be a StalkerShrine. A ShrineToSelf may likewise double as a Room Full Of Crazy for {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s and the like. If the room is used for plotting a conspiracy theory, it's a StringTheory. The BlackBugRoom is the mental version of this. TheDollEpisode may include a room full of dolls for similar effect.

* Parodied in one of ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'''s "Bytes," when Arbiter wants to know why Master Chief has locked himself in Jon's Bathroom for 4 days straight. Upon getting into the Bathroom when Chief's asleep, Arbiter finds out that Chief, [[JerkAss a nasty, obnoxious, sexist, religiously devoted fanboy of anything and everything related to Halo]], has become [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic a brony]]. At first Arbiter find Chief's hypocrisy funny, until he notices all the MLP-related pics Chief plastered all over the bathroom, and even a (poorly) handcrafted sexdoll of Fluttershy, is what creeps him out to the fullest. The trope then gets subverted when Chief finds Arbiter snooping and seemingly attempts to kill for it, ONLY to then sit Arbiter down and have him watch the show himself.

* In Kaori Yuki's manga ''Manga/BoysNextDoor'', Adrian has one of these when his backstory is revealed. After [[spoiler: stabbing his mother]], he doesn't want her staring at him, so he [[spoiler: covers her eyes and then scratches the eyes out of every picture in the room.]] The police find him five days later.

* In ''Manga/{{Ibitsu}}'', Kazuki discovers a room in the abandoned mental hospital where [[spoiler:the lolita covered large portions of the walls and floor by writing 'big brother' over and over.]]

* In the first ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime, whenever Hotaru Tomoe's [[SplitPersonality Mistress Nine personality]] manifested herself [[spoiler: before [[SplitPersonalityTakeover definitely taking over her]] ]], she would be seen in a huge darkened room with no visible windows (the light inside comes from many lamps instead), sitting on a very detailed chair similar on a throne, ''and'' with many [[CreepyDoll dolls and stuffed animals]] ( which MN!Hotaru would occasionally rip in half with her bare hands) at her feet.

* ''Manga/XxxHolic'''s characters told ghost stories about people who stumbled across one of these rooms in a haunted house. ("[[NightmareFuel Let me out! Let me out! Father, please let me out!]]")

* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s nemesis ComicBook/TheJoker does this occasionally. One story showed the walls of his cell covered with smiley faces, caricatures of Batman and Robin and the full lyrics to the Batman version of Jingle Bells. The speaker on the wall with which the doctors communicated with him was labeled "'''THEM'''". In another story, Batman managed to find a clue in the Joker's scribbles.
* In one ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comic, ComicBook/TwoFace is shown to have news clippings covering one of his walls. He says jokingly that compared to some of his other obsessions, that one is only about a 2 on the Richter scale.
* ComicBook/{{Carnage}} did this when he was told Franchise/SpiderMan's identity - he wrote Peter Parker's name on the walls hundreds of times and chanted to himself "I know a secret..." The knowledge was quickly wiped from his mind, but they never showed what happened to the writing on the wall. Presumably Ravencroft's guards and doctors assumed Carnage was obsessing over the guy who took pictures of him getting beat up.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'',

* In ''Fanfic/CampNightmare'', [[spoiler:the walls of Hugs and Snuggles Day Camp's basement are covered with the {{cult}}'s logo.]]
* In ''Cave Story Versus I M Meen'', Jack does this after watching Sue and Toroko rape each other seemingly [[spoiler: but not quite]] to death. Although, it's more like a ''room splattered with random condiments, cornbread, bodily fluids, and'' ''[[Squick Jack's freshly picked, naturally produced toejam.]]''
* In CP Coulter's ''Fanfic/{{Dalton}}'', [[spoiler: a wall in Adam's room is covered in pictures of Julian, his obsession, love letters to him, roses, and Adam's own blood. The wall is covered up by wallpaper most of the time, but the room still stinks of roses and blood.]]

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6401057/16/Getting-It-Right Getting It Right]]'', [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo]] has five dry eraser boards in his closet that he uses to arrange people (that he shouldn't reasonably know) and future events in a web graph with someone he's planning on killing in the center. [[spoiler: When Rukia runs across it, she's quite disturbed and erases it all, leaving Orihime to be confused by a bunch of blank white boards lying around later]].

* The main character in the CG FanFilm ''[[http://noescape.rateofinjury.com/main.htm Silent Hill: No Escape]]'' is a man whose slow descent into his own SelfInflictedHell is accompanied by mysterious words and sigils, written in blood on the imaginary landscape that surrounds him. The words "No Escape" are common appearers, of course, [[spoiler: and when he gets to the church with the sacrificial altar at the end, he sees, written above it, the titles and numbers of the six victims his SuperpoweredEvilSide has murdered in order to free itself.]]

* Esther's room in ''Film/{{Orphan}}'', with a slight twist: her decor and paintings appear normal until viewed under a blacklight, which reveals disturbing overlays depicting fire, blood and murder [[spoiler:(and erotic images reflecting her sexual obsession with her adopted father).]]

* In ''Film/{{REC}}'', [[spoiler:the closest anyone gets to an explanation is a Room Full of Crazy covered in newspaper clips about a "Ninha Medeiros" who seems to have been infected or possessed, a recorder that plays back some ramblings about a virus, an ''infected hyper-aggressive little boy'' and, finally, the '''Ninha herself''' that kills the last two survivors.]]

* Similarly, in ''Film/RedDragon'', Dolarhyde keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and doodles from his [[FreudianExcuse messed-up childhood]].

* ''Sherlock Holmes''

* In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Sam makes his college dorm room into one of these, with everything covered in Cybertronian symbols. Although he's not quite insane, he just [[spoiler:has a map to a sun-destroying energon source implanted in his brain by the Allspark.]]

* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' the protagonist and narrator, Dave, find himself in the trailer where the man who sells the [[spoiler:Soy Sauce]] lives. He enters a room, only to find [[spoiler: himself in a beautiful landscape which he later realizes is a painting that covers all of the walls, floor and ceiling to trick the eye. He then realizes the painting is not as nice as it first appears to be.]]

* Alice Cooper's [[http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nK0aMdK7U "Vengeance is Mine"]].

* Combine ''Manga/{{Elfenlied}}'' a piece full of NightmareFuel with the song titled "Blue" by [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Birthday Massacre]] and then stop the video at the key points as something writes on the walls revealing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mjI7TZpBEU&playnext=1&videos=yZ-tCPXk-p0 a new vector for this trope.]]
* The video for Music/{{Incubus}}' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvZY3-y4l8Q Warning]]'' features a wallpaper-friendly variation, with "10:24" sticky notes covering the walls.

** One of the ''Literature/{{Ravenor}}'' novels had madness-induced frescoes spanning through several apartments, getting more elaborate and detailed as they went. The last one depicted [[spoiler:two of Ravenor's companions encountering the painter even as he finished the fresco.]]

* The Dark Knight coaster at Ride/SixFlags Great America and Six Flags Great Adventure, based on [[Film/TheDarkKnight the movie of the same name]], pulls this trope in the preshow room. You enter, watch a short film of Harvey Dent giving a speech, and then [[spoiler: the Joker hijacks the feed and various words ("[[EvilLaugh Ha Ha Ha]]", "[[CatchPhrase Why so serious]]?", etc.) randomly appear all over the walls as [[NightmareFuel a different and much more disturbing video plays.]]]] The effect is quite unnerving, to say the least.

* Red's [[spoiler:death room]] in ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' [[spoiler:consists of Red himself impaled on a spike in the middle of the room, with [[MadnessMantra NEVER CATCH ME NEVERNEVERNEVER]] written all over the walls in his own blood. It then explodes. And that's downright ''mundane'' compared to what you find in cold storage.]]

** In Entry #60, Jay returns to the [[AbandonedHospital burned-out hospital]] and enters the room where he saw the hooded man leaving in a previous entry. On the walls are scrawled [[spoiler:"HE IS A Liar" and "Follow ME", presumably referring to Tim, whose medical documents are later found in the tunnel with a piece of paper containing the Operator symbol and the word "Liar" covering them.]]

* Comicbook/TheQuestion from ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited''. His [[StringTheory grand-unification conspiracy theory diagram]] covers the walls of his room on the Watchtower. Several members of the League think he's got mental issues, but it's subverted in that he's often right about ''parts'' of the conspiracy. It could also be he's pulling off a bit of [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Insanity]]. At least, we hope so. When he suffers SanitySlippage in 'Question Authority', he actually breaks one of the diagrams out of anger about [[spoiler: a chain of events (Cadmus, Luthor and their influence on the League) he thinks will end the world.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

*** Played straight with [[spoiler: the inside of Bob-in-disguise's bedroom, which is covered with stabbed photos of Bart with "KILL" written on them, along with [[CallBack one photo of Krusty]] and [[RuleOfFunny a note about buying milk]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Robin had his walls completely covered with news clippings of Slade in "Masks", his definite low-point in his vendetta against the man.

If the Room Full of Crazy is specific enough, for example, only part of a wall is covered with photos of the same subject, it may be a StalkerShrine. A ShrineToSelf may likewise double as a Room Full Of Crazy for {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s and the like. If the room is used for plotting a conspiracy theory, its a StringTheory. The BlackBugRoom is the mental version of this. TheDollEpisode may include a room full of dolls for similar effect.

* In ''Fanfic/AddressUnknown'', Derpy decorates her bedroom with eye charts from her dozens of visits to opticians over the years. Rainbow Dash describes it as, "In daytime, they were thought-provoking, but at night… creepy." It becomes a plot point when she wakes up the morning after being temporarily blinded by Twilight's spell and realises that not only can she see again, she can read the top rows of letters more clearly than ever before.

** In "Who Shot Mr. Burns: Part 1", Homer is frustrated that Mr. Burns can never remember his name, so he sneaks into Mr. Burns' office and spray-paints "I Am Homer Simpson" all over the walls. After Burns asks "Who the devil are you?" when he catches him, [[RantInducingSlight Homer loses his temper]] and shakes him shouting "Homer Simpson! My name is Homer Simpson!" before security guards drag him out.

* In ''Film/{{Candy}}'', Dan comes home from work to find that Candy, in her mental breakdown, has scrawled an epic poem about their relationship over every wall in the house.

* Ray Finkle's room in ''Film/AceVentura: Pet Detective'', covered with scrawls of "Laces Out" and "Die Dan Die," left Ace (and the audience) in no doubt that Finkle lost his mind following the disastrous missed field goal that cost the Dolphins the Super Bowl and that he's got some rather ugly designs on Dan Marino, whom he blames for the whole thing. Ace would later say of the room, "Cozy, if you're Hannibal Lecter."

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', Joe Brody has a room covered with newspaper clippings and other documents relating to his search for the truth behind the collapse of the Janjira plant that led to his wife's death. His son is understandably taken aback at all this; his father simply replies: "I don't get too many visitors".