Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!
Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
airsnob I'm writing this review because it got a high rating on Netflix , which us hard to do. Can't believe that it did. The acting is good. Not bad. The movie is found footage and doesn't seem like low budget. Which it is. I tend to be more forgiving on low budget , independent films. I really love it when someone has the heart and will to produce something within the circumference of Hollywood. Which Is tough stuff if you know anyone in the business. OK so my low rating is because not enough stuff happened and I started writing this review an hour into the movie. An hour!!!!!!! I figured there was no way that it could get a higher score from me just because of that. I'm still watching it now , as a matter of fact. Something finally happened but then it slowed again. To a snails pace. Although this was a realistic movie, meaning , all of this could have gone down exactly like this if it were in real life. Paranormal activity in real life doesn't happen every day in really huge ways... Slight activity might happen every day, but big stuff once in a while. But the point is, we don't want to see that in a movie. We want stuff to happen, and happen a lot and be a movie!! When it's a horror movie. I mean we still want to believe it, and that's what separates the good films from the bad. So nice try. I think that the movie will appeal to people that are not scared by ghost stuff , but more by people stuff. Like the possession crowd. Some people get their knickers scared off by The Exorcist. Some people by Oculus. This is the difference here and there is that thing about the indomitable wait. I have 7 minus left to go and only four things " events" have actually happened. We are on the fourth and final one right now. So....... With that kind of wait , you just need a really really creepy build up, and with it being so realistic and with a skeptic in the house? It's practicality killed itself. Also... There were a few things that bugged me. Like the one guy refusing to give his camera up . Who would do that and who would put up with that if a million dollars were at stake. I would've took that guys camera so fast his head would have spun. No lame excuses. That bugged the pee out of me.
adi_2002 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.
imatosser182 An extremely bizarre tale in the ever popular found footage format. In a nod towards Shallow Grave (1994), three hard up flatmates advertise for an additional lodger. Their plea is soon answered and their new flatmate moves in, with considerable baggage. It transpires that he sleepwalks, suffers from bloodshot eyes, and rearranges the furniture in the middle of the night. Things take a really shocking twist when they awake one morning to find that he has turned into a mirror. As you might assume, chaos ensues and the mirror begins a murderous rampage. A nod towards Hollow Man (2000) perhaps. If you don't want a major scene of the film spoiled, then either don't look at the DVD cover or somehow forget you saw it. The film is concluded by a poor finale with the usual crappy tacked on girl power ending that is improved slightly when the mirror actually looks in another mirror, causing both to explode, as well as the flat and a local construction site. Not a prequel to Mirrors (2008)
daimondgeezer The idea of having a camera looking at a Mirror 24/7 isn't actually a bad idea... Watching the first 20 minutes of this movie you will start to feel really uneasy at the idea that this movie is going to spend 90mins looking at a mirror with some crazy sh*t to follow.... Except it doesn't.... I don't understand the title MIRROR, because it has VERY little to do with it to be honest.... ...............SPOILER ALERT TO FOLLOW.....................The only thing that this movie has going for it is this.... It does make you wonder if the guy is schizophrenic and actually kills himself in the end..... (and kills the woman outside....) and therefore you wonder if any of the others existed.... how come he never calls the police or the ambulance when the accidents happen?...hmmm....
