In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed by the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.
Genre(s): Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Runtime: 110 minutes
Rating: 6.2/10 (20,977 votes)
Release Date: 14 August 2008
Country: USA, Romania
Languages: English
Company: Regency Enterprises
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
MPAA: Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity.
Director(s): Alexandre Aja
Producer(s):
Marc S. Fischer – executive producer
Andrew Hong – executive producer
Eun-young Kim – co-producer (as Kim Eun Young)
Christopher Landry – line producer: additional photography
Grégory Levasseur – producer
Alexandra Milchan – producer
Arnon Milchan – executive producer
Vlad Paunescu – producer: Castel Film
Marc Sternberg – producer
Kiefer Sutherland – executive producer
Andrei Zinca – line producer: Castel Film
Writer(s):
Alexandre Aja – (screenplay) &
Grégory Levasseur – (screenplay) (as Gregory Levasseur)
Sung-ho Kim – (Korean motion picture "Into the Mirror")
Cast:
Kiefer Sutherland – Ben Carson
Paula Patton – Amy Carson
Cameron Boyce – Michael Carson
Erica Gluck – Daisy Carson
Amy Smart – Angela Carson
Mary Beth Peil – Anna Esseker
John Shrapnel – Lorenzo Sapelli
Jason Flemyng – Det. Larry Byrne
Tim Ahern – Dr. Morris
Julian Glover – Robert Esseker
Music: Javier Navarrete
Tagline: There Is Evil……..On The Other Side
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I am not a big horror fan but do like supernatural thrillers. Thatbeing said I didn't really like The Ring or any of the Hollywoodremakes of the Japanese films with spooky kids with black hair and eyesetc…YAWN!!!
I did enjoy this film very much, I liked Keifer's performance and couldfeel his distraught emotions when he had to show them. I may now checkout 24 as a result.
The other actors/actresses in the film were equally good, it was welldirected and well written for this type of film. All in all it made mejump a few times and I was interested in the outcome. Maybe there couldbe a sequel.
At the start, I had high hopes that this would be a cut above otherhorror movies currently out. That didn't turn out to happen. Afterabout ten minutes the movie got really slow and unnecessarilycomplicated. Keifer Sutherland is okay as the protagonist, but otherthan that, most of the players really suck.
There are a few decent visual tricks with the mirrors, but they can'tmake up for the stupidity of the story. At the end, when the nun isleft in the room of mirrors and her face explodes I thought that wouldover, but instead it just keeps going and she becomes some kind ofstupid CGI demon. It becomes totally ridiculous and unwatchable at thatpoint. The ending was also lame. It's too bad because this movie couldhave been so much more, instead of something so dumb.