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Mirror
Submitted By:
Aldrin John Geronimo
Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland) is a down-on-his-luck ex-New York City police detective who accidentally killed a fellow cop a year ago. He subsequently quit his job, developed a drinking habit and separated from his wife -- not necessarily in that order. Desperate to get his life back on track, he takes a job as a night security guard in an abandoned department store that was gutted by a deadly fire five years earlier and remains empty because of an ongoing legal battle with the insurance company.
It seems like an easy enough gig; after all, everything in the store is charred and worthless. That is, except for the mirrors. Somehow, the mirrors in the store remain intact and immaculately clean. The previous night guard, it seems, was obsessed with them before he slit his throat.
Ben too becomes obsessed when he begins seeing visions of death in the mirrors' reflections. That alone would scare most people off, but Ben continues to work at the store -- until he starts seeing the visions at home as well. When the images prove deadly, he realizes that he's encountered some sort of curse and must solve the mystery behind the store's mirrors in order to save the lives of his wife and kids.
I haven't seen Into the Mirror, so any criticism of Mirrors comes from a clean slate untainted by the dreaded horror fanboy cry of "American remakes are never as good as the original!" (Aja is French, for what that's worth.) That said, I can't see how the original can be any worse. From what I've read about Into the Mirror, it seems that Mirrors, in true Hollywood style, has pumped up the horror and gore quotient and has taken some boneheaded liberties with the story.
At least, I hope the story has been altered significantly, because few movies in recent memory make as little sense as this one. The core idea -- mirrors being a window into a spirit world -- is an intriguing one, but it's treated
Submitted By:
Aldrin John Geronimo
Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland) is a down-on-his-luck ex-New York City police detective who accidentally killed a fellow cop a year ago. He subsequently quit his job, developed a drinking habit and separated from his wife -- not necessarily in that order. Desperate to get his life back on track, he takes a job as a night security guard in an abandoned department store that was gutted by a deadly fire five years earlier and remains empty because of an ongoing legal battle with the insurance company.
It seems like an easy enough gig; after all, everything in the store is charred and worthless. That is, except for the mirrors. Somehow, the mirrors in the store remain intact and immaculately clean. The previous night guard, it seems, was obsessed with them before he slit his throat.
Ben too becomes obsessed when he begins seeing visions of death in the mirrors' reflections. That alone would scare most people off, but Ben continues to work at the store -- until he starts seeing the visions at home as well. When the images prove deadly, he realizes that he's encountered some sort of curse and must solve the mystery behind the store's mirrors in order to save the lives of his wife and kids.
I haven't seen Into the Mirror, so any criticism of Mirrors comes from a clean slate untainted by the dreaded horror fanboy cry of "American remakes are never as good as the original!" (Aja is French, for what that's worth.) That said, I can't see how the original can be any worse. From what I've read about Into the Mirror, it seems that Mirrors, in true Hollywood style, has pumped up the horror and gore quotient and has taken some boneheaded liberties with the story.
At least, I hope the story has been altered significantly, because few movies in recent memory make as little sense as this one. The core idea -- mirrors being a window into a spirit world -- is an intriguing one, but it's treated