The haunted house featured in Matrixappendix movie cartoon continues to be one of the biggest mysteries of the franchise to this day. The Matrix is a series that’s no stranger to having open-ended mysteries in its story. These unanswered questions have puzzled fans for years not only about the whole story but also about the roles of certain characters. Especially the Architect from The Matrix Reloaded is still being analyzed on what he told Neo and why he was there in the first place. However, the animated animating anthology The Animatrix left such a great mystery that it is still questioned today.
In the Animatrix “Beyond”, a short story by Kōji Morimoto about a girl named Yoko searching for her missing cat. During her hunting trip, she discovers children are visiting what they consider to be a haunted house, where strange things are happening. Time is repeating itself, gravity is not working as it should, and there are strange changes to the architectural layout. While not necessarily a scary story, this mysterious environment is clearly a point in the Matrix that isn’t properly coded. However, given what virtual world lore has to offer in terms of glitches, there are still some questions regarding whether this is something else entirely.
Is The Matrix’s Haunted House a glitch or a bug?
Back in the first film, it was revealed that déjà vu is the last dealer if something goes wrong in the Matrix. However, like glitches, it’s usually transient and doesn’t last long after it’s detected. A haunted house, on the other hand, is a well-defined location where nothing will ever happen and can repeat when certain actions are performed. This makes it more suitable for a bug in the Matrix’s code than for a glitch. What’s really worth mentioning, however, is that the haunted house is clearly not intentional as the Agents quickly flock there to maintain the illusion of reality. According to Trinity in the first Matrix movie, glitches tend to occur when the code is intentionally altered, while the haunted house is more like an unintended consequence of an update. This can even be confirmed by a physical representation of a patch when exterminators are brought in to fill the holes with a foreign substance.
What lies behind the door of Animatrix’s haunted house?
Perhaps the biggest mystery regarding the haunted house is the door that Yoko sees through before being dragged away by the Agent and the Terminators. While other oddities in the environment are easy to understand, this eerie moment when she opens a door that leads nowhere is the short film’s biggest puzzle because it makes the viewer question what’s going on. what lies beyond it. Maybe it’s an escape from the Matrix similar to how phones are used to unpack awakened individuals back into the real world. It would explain the urgency the Agents felt to patch the hole because they knew the house could do more than just make people realize their world was a simulation. It will probably wake them up in the real future. However, it could also be a void that could in fact kill humans, causing their energy supply to wane if people started walking through it.
Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s out-of-date sci-fi will forever push fans to find out what’s going on in their world. In fact, their revelation that the original The Matrix movie was a transverse allegory led to a re-analysis of the story for clues that matched what they saw in the story when first they created it. Haunted house in cartoon will be one of the other mysteries that will continue to puzzle Matrix fans for its ambiguity invite analysis to resolve what lies underneath.