Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Micitype Pretty Good

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

GL84 After moving into a new house, a woman and her family are confronted with a series of bizarre and increasingly more frightening visions that she finds is connected to a long-forgotten mystery involving the previous residents of the house.This was quite a decent if troubling effort. One of its' better tactics is the use of photographs for the mirror which amounts to some of the better scenes in here. Among the better ones is the first attempt as the flashing light distorts the husbands face into a demonic figure while a second figure is seen in the mirror, the same distortion attempts plague the second photographs while the final attempt manages to feature plenty of utterly creepy images on everyone in the photographs before throwing a rather impressive freak-out that comes out of nowhere for a pretty exciting scene. Other big scenes are based highly on the tactic of throwing frightening visuals around at the most unexpected times which includes scenes as the sequence with the old woman across the hall which gets quite frantic with the house search with all the blood found throughout while also focusing on those reality distortion that have been utilized throughout here as well as numerous scenes of rattling windows and shimmering light which is the best part going for the film. The other big positive here is the rather enjoyable back-story which is pretty creepy in its own right before getting to the gradual investigation with the notebook and the water-style filtering on the scene for a truly enjoyable set-piece for the scenes which is enough to help this one out against its damaging flaws. The film's biggest factor against it is the rather toned-down feeling that flows throughout here. The bore and brutality from the kills are so down-played from what their initially could've been considering the actions within which is all based on the toned-down feeling exhibited by the rest of the film. The main part of the storyline here furthers that toned down feeling as it feels more in line with typical Lifetime Channel fare by introducing such topics as her actively questioning whether or not she's insane by imaging everything around her or actually happening which is a common staple in such films. Likewise, this includes the themes of the middle section where she begins investigating the source of the flashing victims throughout, which goes along with the other flaws on display to hold this one down.Rated R: Violence and Language.

Claudio Carvalho The housewife and aspirant photographer Deborah Martin (Lisa Vidal) fells a strange sort of attraction by a house and convinces her husband Jim (David Chisum) to buy it. They move from Seattle with their son Ian (Joshua Pelegrin) and Deborah takes a photo of a mirror in the bathroom. Along the days, she discovers that her neighbor is snooping her family and a stranger is stalking her. She researches and finds that the house belonged to a painter that might have killed his wife. Sooner she realizes that an alternate world is affecting her life and the glasses of the house are protecting her family.The above summary sounds crazy, incoherent or inconsistent? So congratulations to me since I have succeeded in describing the complete mess that this story is. "Dark Mirror" is an awful horror movie despite a couple of good reviews in IMDb (but at least two visibly fake from Users with only one review and giving a ten to this crap). My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Reflexo do Mal" ("Reflex of the Evil")

hasosch This is an excellent horror movie, and I will tell you step by step, why. Although the sources of writer-director Pablo Proenza are unknown to me, the plot makes systematical use of what is called in logic "poly-contextural" elements. Examples are: The exchange relation between a sign and its object, especially a painting and the real, painted person, or the exchange relation between two persons, by which operation the identity relation of the individual is abolished. The possibility that one person can appear at the same time in more than one place - thereby abolishing the Aristotelian triad of individual, place and time. The idea that Death does not abolish the individuality of a person, although it may well abolish its body and the related idea that the will, but not the thinking, of a dead person can survive and therefore influence the lives of the living. "Poly-contextural" is also the idea that "ghosts" can be imprisoned in prismatic glass (windows) or in whole houses, so also the idea/motive of the "Haunted House" has "poly-contextural" roots.In systematically using such motives the horror movies of the new generation do a big quality jump over their ancestors. Not only a quantity jump - by using more and even complexer technical effects which, at the end, dissolve themselves, but by bringing out the deepest horror which mankind is possibly able to sense: the idea to stand before oneself, the doubling of personality, the non-difference between life and death, the reversibility of the path between the Here and the Beyond and so on. This is not Science-Fiction, but based on solid logical Cybernetics, developed mainly in the US since the 50ies.Congratulations to the director for this masterpiece! May he continue his way and become the ice-breaker for a real, qualitatively and not only quantitatively new generation of the horror film.

mspinelli91 I started with High Expectations for this film. It started with a good premise, family moves into haunted house, tried and true. Then it threw in a mother/photographer who's subjects always die. Then it threw in a mysterious door that only appears in their bathroom Mirror. Then it threw in magical Chinese glass that holds evil spirits. Then it adds a dead grandmother to the mix, who is talking to the protagonist as if she is alive. The husband then tells us that she's been speaking to her dead mother... but then in the end... She's not crazy..... Does this sound like 5 different movies in one to anyone? There is no way that a movie with this many plots could ever wrap up in a short 90 minute period. I felt legitimately bad for the actors who were all pretty good. However they were given the unfortunate hand of having to act in a movie where they had little room to act, due to the high demands of an ever changing plot. I was extremely disappointed with this movie.So overall... Bad Plot(s), Good Actors, too much info, not enough explanation = TERRIBLE movie