The Mirror (2014)

Very disappointing...

One of my all time favorites.

Absolutely brilliant

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This movie, (and I use that loosely), Is the biggest load of garbage ever. I am so sorry I even bought this and its follow up which I dare say may prove to be as trashy as this one. I am an avid horror film buff but this....please don't insult our intelligence with such stupid money grabbing cheap trash.I have seen some total garbage in my time but I would not under any circumstances recommend this to anyone with the slightest bit of smarts about them. What happened to the good old movies that actually had a story line worth something, the movies that would last the generations, and the movies that proved the producer really cared about his audience?I will never again be caught out with one of these crap movies. The ones I own now are going in the trash where they belong.

This movie was a hodgepodge of so much good and bad in horror movies. It is just another found footage movie that has a storyline that makes little sense. Everything that happens in this movie to any member of the cast cannot be directly linked back to The Mirror. There is little to no back story as to why the Mirror is a haunted or paranormal item. While the acting was pretty good by the cast, decisions made by the characters in the movie were just borderline of incredulous! They call no one for help when one character starts sleepwalking and ends up on a balcony. Same character gets sudden blindness and they put him in bed, no emergency room. He turns up missing and they don't report it...the list just goes on and on!I thought the story moved along very slowly and got somewhat repetitive at points, too. The ending was not bad, but fell into the predictability of found footage films.

Three friends record themselves in their flat in order to win a prize money at a contest. Once a mirror is brought in the apartment, soon they are possessed by an evil spirit who will make them to murder other peoples and even to kill each other.This is a low budget movie with ideas borrowed from the Paranormal Activity series but with an altered scenario including horror elements in it. The result? pure garbage! At the beginning it may seem to be interesting but it's not. 90% of the movie is filmed inside the house with only three characters. Watching them arguing, eating, sleeping is not that entertaining. I guess we all can make this type of movie, is just like taking two friends with you, a camera and start recording your daily activity and the movie is done. Even for only 80 minutes runtime it seems too long it could have been made even in 40. You could watch the first 15 minutes then skip to the last 20 and you didn't lose anything. The few good parts are that for a bunch of unknown actors they played their parts very good even that there was nothing too complicated, the girl was really cute, and one or two jump scare scenes and that's about all. For a true horror fan, watching alone at night this one will not do the trick.

I was actually tiring a little of 'found-footage' movies after viewing a spate of recent ones that were poorly made, badly written and just plain implausible!And then I watched The Mirror.I thought it was an absolutely brilliant and genuinely frightening horror movie. I haven't felt so scared watching a horror movie in years! It literally gave me chills.To begin with I found the story of the three flatmates attempting to capture some spooky footage rather entertaining - they're all fantastic, very natural actors and the interplay between them was highly watchable. But as events started getting out of hand, as a result of the ominous mirror, I found myself being drawn into the chilling narrative to the point of feeling like I was watching a nightmare being played out on the screen. The 'found-footage' style evoked such a sense of dread that I felt like I was actually watching one of my own nightmares. The third act of the film is an absolute masterclass in tension, suspense and disturbing, unsettling filmmaking - and all achieved with no music score!I haven't had this kind of a reaction to a horror movie in a long time and it was really refreshing to watch something that actually scared me. Structurally and stylistically The Mirror is an excellent horror film and I'd recommend it to all horror fans - even if, like me, you'd become disillusioned with 'found-footage' - The Mirror should shine you back onto them!