I am assuming that this thing had a low budget anyway, as it just never really wowed with its special effects as a couple of the deaths could have been more grisly. Meanwhile, they most definitely did not know how to end this movie as what you get at the end is the good old none ending. Something that clears up nothing, resolves nothing and in this case it also does not make a lick of sense.
The story starts out with a twin killing her sibling and then covering a mirror. Years later a new family moves in and the daughter grows to love the mirror. She goes to school and because she is goth she is immediately targeted by the mean girls. Meanwhile, mom in the film may be the lead actress Karen Black, but she really does not figure into the story much at all. Well, the mirror starts exhibiting powers that the daughter begins to feel she can control and we get stuff happening while an antiques dealer has it all figured out and is killed quicker than Dick from The Shining...
The film seems to almost be like an Amityville movie, but they lost the rights to the Amityville name so it went from Amityville: Mirror to Mirror, Mirror. Also, strange how they seem to have the young girl dressed as Lydia from Beetlejuice and she acts just like her as well, though this one gets a bit darker.
The film almost works, but too many lingering shots on unimportant stuff like that scene where the girl is getting roasted and we keep flashing to the water polo going on in the pool. Too much school politics and too many bland characters as all the guys are like the same. Or were there just two of them? The most damning thing of all though is the lack of a decent ending. No explanation and the finale sucked. I was expecting more than just breezy house and virtually nothing happening, I wanted to see someone pulled into the mirror or something, not the nonsensical restart of the film!
The story starts out with a twin killing her sibling and then covering a mirror. Years later a new family moves in and the daughter grows to love the mirror. She goes to school and because she is goth she is immediately targeted by the mean girls. Meanwhile, mom in the film may be the lead actress Karen Black, but she really does not figure into the story much at all. Well, the mirror starts exhibiting powers that the daughter begins to feel she can control and we get stuff happening while an antiques dealer has it all figured out and is killed quicker than Dick from The Shining...
The film seems to almost be like an Amityville movie, but they lost the rights to the Amityville name so it went from Amityville: Mirror to Mirror, Mirror. Also, strange how they seem to have the young girl dressed as Lydia from Beetlejuice and she acts just like her as well, though this one gets a bit darker.
The film almost works, but too many lingering shots on unimportant stuff like that scene where the girl is getting roasted and we keep flashing to the water polo going on in the pool. Too much school politics and too many bland characters as all the guys are like the same. Or were there just two of them? The most damning thing of all though is the lack of a decent ending. No explanation and the finale sucked. I was expecting more than just breezy house and virtually nothing happening, I wanted to see someone pulled into the mirror or something, not the nonsensical restart of the film!