Rent Mirrors (2008)

Creepy - Mirrors review by sb

FILM & REVIEW Very effctive shocker which is a remake of the Korean horror - albeit with considerable rewrites . Sutherland plays Ben an ex undercover NYPD cop who is suspended for accidentally killing another cop and is taking very strong meds for his anxieties. He gets a job as night watchman at a giant art-deco department store that was destroyed by a fire leaving only a burnt shell. He learns that the previous holder of the job killed himself and soon enough Ben begins to see strange apparitions and becomes convinced there is something in the giant mirrors in the store. He has an enstranged wife (Patton) and becomes convinced that whatever is trapped in the mirror can access any reflective surface and realises unless he can give the mirror what it wants his whole family is in danger so he sets out to discover what the mirror wants . Keifer is very good at first doubting his sanity then accepting it’s all real and taking action. At first the film does overdo the jump scares but soon settles down and lets the unsettling brooding atmosphere unnerve the audience. I like how it keeps to its own internal logic with a really neat twist thrown in and some of the goriest deaths in cinema. It’s a shame that director Aja who began with Switchblade Romance then the Craven authorised Hills have Eyes remake would do this and then end up churning out straight to video fare since - 4/5

Dreadful - Mirrors review by CP Customer

Whilst the pretext of this movie is brilliant. The trailers draw you in. However the film its self is dreadul

Tries to be frighening but is not!!

The acting is good, and the suspense does build up however at the end of the day nothing of what is happening or why it is happening is explained at all...Leaves you confused and a bit let down and wondering why you had wasted your time watching it.

Don't look in the mirror - Mirrors review by CP Customer

A spooky tale of mirrors and evil in them. You just know,hoever, that it will all work ouit Ok for Kiefer and despite a harrowing journey it does.

Average horror-thriller. - Mirrors review by CP Customer

Alexandre Aja's 'Switchblade Romance' was an excellent tension filled gore-fest, his remake of 'The Hills Have Eyes' was an equally good gore filled roller coaster, but this is very much an average horror thriller based around possessed mirrors in a derelict department store. Kiefer Sutherland is ok, the story's ok, there are a couple of jump in your seat moments, and there's quite a good twist in the tale, but just don't expect to be blown away.