"Mirror Mirror" is a fairly entertaining horror movie which is held back by a flimsy presence and an uninteresting "villain", if villain she be.
It is about an apparently haunted mirror which gives its owner magical powers. The mirror is inherited by a young goth girl who is bullied at school. Soon her mirror allows her to get revenge on her tormentors and teachers, steaming a stuck up popular girl in the shower room at school, and giving poor Stephen Tobolowsky a heart attack. The only one who can stop the mounting body count is the only girl who was nice to the goth when she first came to school.
For a movie with such a silly premise, "Mirror Mirror" actually has fairly good production values, featuring a few different locations and a few actors you might recognize: aside from Tobolowsky, there's also Karen Black and William Sanderson. However, I was just never able to swallow the premise that the mirror is evil. I've had my issues with mirrors - I've never liked the look of the guy I see when I look at one - but the one in this movie isn't even particularly scary looking. Furthermore, how is it granting the goth girl powers? Does she stand in front of it and ask it questions? We never find out. It seems that it would have been fairly straight forward to depict a being in the mirror speaking to the goth girl, but instead they just show a bunch of people dying in generic supernatural ways and leave it to us to figure out that the mirror is somehow involved.
Further, the goth girl could have been a typical sympathetic villain, someone whose actions we understand even if we don't approve of them, but the movie doesn't make her likeable or interesting, and nor does it even make her tormentors worthy of contempt.
The result is a horror movie which does nothing to rise above mediocrity, and has nothing to remember it by, aside a single silly idea.
It is about an apparently haunted mirror which gives its owner magical powers. The mirror is inherited by a young goth girl who is bullied at school. Soon her mirror allows her to get revenge on her tormentors and teachers, steaming a stuck up popular girl in the shower room at school, and giving poor Stephen Tobolowsky a heart attack. The only one who can stop the mounting body count is the only girl who was nice to the goth when she first came to school.
For a movie with such a silly premise, "Mirror Mirror" actually has fairly good production values, featuring a few different locations and a few actors you might recognize: aside from Tobolowsky, there's also Karen Black and William Sanderson. However, I was just never able to swallow the premise that the mirror is evil. I've had my issues with mirrors - I've never liked the look of the guy I see when I look at one - but the one in this movie isn't even particularly scary looking. Furthermore, how is it granting the goth girl powers? Does she stand in front of it and ask it questions? We never find out. It seems that it would have been fairly straight forward to depict a being in the mirror speaking to the goth girl, but instead they just show a bunch of people dying in generic supernatural ways and leave it to us to figure out that the mirror is somehow involved.
Further, the goth girl could have been a typical sympathetic villain, someone whose actions we understand even if we don't approve of them, but the movie doesn't make her likeable or interesting, and nor does it even make her tormentors worthy of contempt.
The result is a horror movie which does nothing to rise above mediocrity, and has nothing to remember it by, aside a single silly idea.