j dogg
In order for me to give spoilers, there must first be a plot. Unless psychotic and idiotic character development is considered a plot. For those considering watching this movie....I'm going to save you the trouble...stab yourself in the eye and throw yourself onto a burning fire. it would be much more enjoyable. Words cannot convey just how mind numbing this movie is. The fact that someone wrote this script (I'm assuming it has a script, but you know, it might not have one) then someone else read it and LIKED it...is mind boggling. the movie isn't even over yet....well I guess it could've been considered over before it started.this movie is a straight turd. its awful. just....dreadful.
etherman23
I stumbled upon this movie thinking it was a new TV show in the genre of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Dark Side. It has the production value of a TV show but it soon became apparent that it was a movie that I'd just never heard of before.It started out promising enough (though clichéd) with a family moving in to a new house, which happens to be haunted. Strange things start happening to the wife involving mirrors. Pretty soon the writers find themselves tripping over the plot twists and story lines. The husband's complete lack of concern over the safety of his family, even as he suspects that his wife is a sociopath, makes no sense. The wife struggles with trying to figure out if the house is haunted or if she's crazy. A struggle shared by the writers, I might add. Much like Pirates of the Caribbean 2, the writers threw together a bunch of random story lines and never got them to gel together or make any sense.I will say that the movie was interesting enough to keep me watching, but the ending was disappointing because it never tied the story lines together.
dbborroughs
Woman moves into a new house and takes a photo in a mirror with a mirror behind her and unleashes a doppelganger from a mirror world. Or something. Unremarkable thriller hits all of the right notes for a story like this but doesn't add anything new to the sub-genre of horror film involving mirrors or alternate worlds. If you've seen any number of similar films you'll know what to expect. In all honesty its not a bad film, its just not a particularly remarkable one. I was kind of hoping for something special because the film was released by IFC Films which tends to release films that have some form of something that's different. This is simply a well done, but run of the mill horror film
Seb
Another reviewer praises this movie as being 'Polanski scary' but I'm not seeing the connection between a convicted paedophile and this leaden paced dud. The plot seems interesting enough to start with, a sour faced woman and her family move into a house which has some funny business going on with the mirrors. This goes absolutely nowhere though and the twists are only surprising in the sense that there's no lead up to them so when they're dropped into the story it has minimal impact. The film has a go at a few different ideas but doesn't really get stuck into a good ghost story, nor is it really a satisfying thriller.The best I can say is that it at least shows you the ending at the start saving you from having to watch the whole thing. I stuck on until the end hoping for something to make it all worthwhile but there really is nothing. I like slow spooky movies but this is just slow and badly put together with mediocre acting from all involved especially "grandma exposition" who pops up a few times to try to get the plot moving.
AD
