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Mirrors
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
2008 · Directed by Alexandre Aja · 111 min · Horror · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
There is evil...On the other side.
Plot
A security guard runs through a subway station until he enters a room he cannot escape. He starts begging his reflection in a mirror for his life. His reflection cuts its own throat with a glass shard; the wound reflects upon the real security guard's body, killing him.
Ben Carson, a suspended police detective, begins his first day as a night security guard at the Mayflower, a luxury department store gutted by a fire and shuttered five years prior. The building still contains numerous mirrors from the store.
After several nights, Ben notices unusual and increasingly unsettling things about the mirrors. He soon finds the wallet of the previous night guard (who died in the beginning of the film) and a note that says "Esseker". Ben eventually comes to suspect that the mirror reflections make things happen to people.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Grégory Levasseur, Alexandre Aja
- Cinematography: Maxime Alexandre
- Edited by: Baxter
- Music: Javier Navarrete
- Production design: Joseph C. Nemec III
- Produced by: Grégory Levasseur, Alexandra Milchan, Vlad Păunescu, Marc Sternberg
Cast
- Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson
- Paula Patton as Amy Carson
- Amy Smart as Angela Carson
- Jason Flemyng as Larry Byrne
- Cameron Boyce as Michael Carson
- Arika Gluck as Daisy Carson
- Ioana Abur as Front Desk Sister
- Mary Beth Peil as Anna Esseker
- John Shrapnel as Lorenzo Sapelli
- Tim Ahern as Dr. Morris
Production
- Country: Romania, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Luna Pictures, ASAF
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $72,400,000
- Themes: schizophrenia, subway, night watchman, possession, hallucination, morgue, alcoholism, ex-cop, remake, rural area
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