I see... then in the Gameboy one that I played, they generously "fixed" those points by making them just kill you instead! If you break the mirror on the left, then shards of glass fly at you, and into your brain, and dead, and the one on the right opens a portal into deep space that you're then sucked through.

Torches, though, those are always going to be an unavoidable problem. Particularly as I used to reignite them so much earlier than I needed to to avoid hearing that music...