Mirrors (film)

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Movie
German title Mirrors
Original title Mirrors
Country of production United States , Romania , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK No youth release / 16 (abridged DVD version)
Rod
Director Alexandre Aja
script Alexandre Aja
Grégory Levasseur
production Alexandra Milchan
Marc Sternberg
Grégory Levasseur
music Javier Navarrete
camera Maxime Alexandre
cut Baxter
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Mirrors 2

Mirrors (English for mirror is) an American horror film from the year 2008 . Alexandre Aja directed, with Kiefer Sutherland in the lead role . The film is based on the South Korean film Into the Mirror (거울 속 으로) by Kim Sung-ho.

action

Police officer Ben Carson was forced to quit his job because of a drinking problem following a shootout that killed his partner and takes a job as a night watchman in a former department store. It was destroyed in a fire five years ago, in which several people died. After a short time, Ben realizes that the department store's mirrors show his own reflections of the victims of the fire, and he discovers countless handprints on the mirror surfaces.

The mirror images tell him to look for "Esseker". He researched that several people, u. a. his predecessor Lewis, unsuccessfully searched for Esseker, whereupon they and their families were killed by mirror images. Ben's relatives are not spared either. His sister is found dead in the bathtub. He recognizes the danger posed by the mirrors and tries to remove all mirrors in the house of his ex-wife Amy, who also lives with his two children. Due to his alcoholic past, however, Amy initially only met with incomprehension. Ben finds out that about 50 years ago there was a psychiatric ward in the department store where the clinic director Dr. Kain treated schizophrenic patients with mirrors . One of the patients was Anna Esseker, then twelve years old, who, according to her medical records, died on October 6, 1952, when all the patients gathered in the main hall and died in an alleged massacre.

In reality, Anna was released two days earlier. Ben finds Anna through her brother in a monastery, to which she has withdrawn to avoid any contact with mirrors. Anna reports that the demon that was in her passed through mirror therapy into the mirrors of the psychiatry of the time . After she does not want to support Ben and since Amy and the children are now also seriously threatened by mirror images, he forces her with gun violence to come with him to the department store. Once there, Ben takes her to the mirrored treatment room, whereupon the demon changes back into Anna's body. In the fight with the demon, Ben can kill him, but he is buried under rubble falling from the ceiling.

In the last scene, Ben manages to escape from the department store, but realizes that the world around him is "mirrored" and that he is not noticed by his fellow human beings. When he touches a shop window and only his handprint becomes visible, it becomes clear that he is trapped in the mirror world. But his family was saved.

Reviews

"Horror film that does not use its atmospheric ambience for an imaginative genre story , but only invites you to go on a ghost train ride as a brutal effect spectacle."

- Lexicon of international film

“After the nasty survival shocker remake The Hills Have Eyes , France's genre specialist Alexandre Aja delivers an equally successful excursion into the supernatural with his second US director. Inspired by the South Korean ghost film Into the Mirror , Aja conjures up a bloodcurdling horror atmosphere on the screen, especially in the brilliantly staged department store scenes. One can easily forgive that Mirrors culminates in a strange monster showdown for which Sutherland falls into his Jack Bauer parade role from 24. "

- Cinema

“A fun thrill is his rapid ghost train ride through the mirror world of the burned-out shopping center. And not least because a well-presented Kiefer Sutherland leans nicely into the curves. "

- Filmstarts.de

"Kiefer Sutherland in a prime role as a traumatized antihero, an oppressive, even threatening-looking location and some really nerve-wracking scenes - successful horror that just lacks that certain something to make a big movie."

- Cinefacts.de

background

The film was released in German cinemas on October 30, 2008, but had its German premiere on August 15, 2008 at the international Fantasy Film Festival in Hamburg. It also opened in theaters on August 15, 2008.

Mirrors was filmed in the United States and Romania . Production costs are estimated at 35 million US dollars .

publication

continuation

20th Century Fox produced the sequel Mirrors 2 in 2010 , which has been available in German stores since December 10, 2010. The film was produced for the video market and thus released on DVD and Blu-Ray . Neither director Alexandre Aja nor leading actor Kiefer Sutherland appear in the film or have participated in it. It was directed by Victor Garcia and Nick Stahl was hired for the lead role . Furthermore, this sequel has nothing in common with the first part except for the fundamental topic, the deadly ghost in the mirror, and encloses a separate, self-contained plot.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for mirrors . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 440 K).
  2. ↑ Mirrors. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Mirrors on cinema.de
  4. ↑ Mirrors on filmstarts.de
  5. ↑ Box Office on imdb.com
  6. ↑ Publication on imdb.com