Mirrors Collection

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Kiefer Sutherland

Paula Patton

Amy Smart

Jason Flemyng

Cameron Boyce

Arika Gluck

Ioana Abur

Mary Beth Peil

John Shrapnel

Tim Ahern

Julian Glover

Josh Cole

Ezra Buzzington

Aida Doina

Darren Kent

Roz McCutcheon

Adina Rapiteanu

William Meredith

Bart Sidles

Cai Man

Jingdong Qin

Anca Damacus

Tudor Stroescu

Liliana Donici

Aurelia Radulescu

George Dumitrescu

Irina Săulescu

Valeriu Pavel

Greg Nicotero

Peter Sebastian Wrobel

Maxime Alexandre

Baxter

Alexandre Aja

Kim Sung-ho

Grégory Levasseur

Deborah Aquila

Jennifer L. Smith

Tricia Wood

Ellen Mirojnick

Michael Dennison

Alexandra Milchan

Javier Navarrete

Vlad Roseanu

Howard Berger

Vlad Păunescu

Marc S. Fischer

Christopher Landry

Joseph C. Nemec III

Liz Griffiths

Arnon Milchan

Marc Sternberg

Andrew Hong

Moritz von der Groeben

Ian Whittaker

Stephen Bream

Gabi Cretan

Andrei Zincă

Tom Bryan

Ovidiu Ursaru

Simon Quinn

Daniel Brimer

Alan E. Lorimer

Robert Maverick

Donald Mowat

Mark Vanstone

Mike McCarty

Gino Crognale

Alistair Bell

Russell Pritchett

Akihito Ikeda

Mandy Arnold

Todd Carson

Tatjana Bozinovski

David Espinoza

Edi Balan

Christopher Hayes

Noah Meddings

Dirk Rogers

Jason Troughton

Stéphane Bidault

Jeffrey Olney

Migs Rustia

Michael Early

Lucian Iordache

David Fogg

Michael Struk

Michael Dean Connolly

Harrison Marks

Mircea Frenkel

Jaremy Aiello

The mirrors. They're so clean.

Mirrors is the American remake of a little known Korean film called Into the Mirror. The plot has Kiefer Sutherland as a recovering alcoholic cop, who whilst on suspension is taken to working as a security guard at a large burnt out department store and starts to see terrifying images in the many mirrors about the place... 

You would think that Mirrors was a flop. The critics hated it and the horror hordes were very much divided on it, the latter of which is to be fair the norm for any big horror movie release. Yet it didn't flop, it did very well at the box offices of the world and has a decent 6.2 average on IMDb, which for a divisive horror film is well above average.

Mirrors overstays its welcome, there really was no need for it to run to just under two hours in length. While elsewhere there's some pretty poor dialogue, parts of the screenplay are pointlessly soap opera in nature, while some thinking will make you scratch your head in bewilderment at events outside of the brilliantly monolithic department store.

However, does Mirrors create a genuinely spooky atmosphere (the interiors of the store are creep fest nirvana), insert some shock moments to jolt you out your seat? Is it visually stylish, with sound work to match? And does Sutherland (and to a degree Paula Patton as his wife) overcome the trite parts of the script and give effective and committed performances? The answer to those questions is yes.

Does the ending cop out in any way? Insult the audience? No! It doesn't do that either.

It has flaws, but they are not insurmountable for the horror fan who's just looking for some good scares, atmospheric dread and some stylish touches from the director (Alexandre Aja). If you haven't seen it then give it a try, judge for yourself, you might be pleasantly surprised at what you find. 7.5/10

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Paula Patton

Amy Smart

Jason Flemyng

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Arika Gluck

Ioana Abur

Mary Beth Peil

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