Mirrors

Kiefer Sutherland stars as an NYPD detective-turned-security guard who discovers something sinister lurking in the mirrors of a fire-damaged department store in Haute Tension writer/director Alexandre Aja's menacing study in the origins of evil. It's been just about a year since mercurial police ...more

Most of today's big screen horror flicks are tailored toward the Facebook and MySpace generation. There's no murderous, psychopathic maniac looking to stack up bodies by hunting teenagers, à la '80s slashers. Rather, modern day films in the genre are more cerebral and often Japanese-influenced, featuring mysteries that drop clues from beyond the grave. Buckets of blood are traded for cheap thrills and mental teases. Mirrors, a glossy, slick Hollywood chill 'n' thrill fest, operates on the ...more

First things first when it comes to Alexandre Aja's Mirrors -- no one could be naïve enough to think that emerging genre talent Aja was above remakes at this point in his career; after all, his third feature as a director was a remake of an American horror classic (The Hills Have Eyes) and his fifth scheduled feature is a remake of the John Sayles-scripted, Joe Dante directed cult killer-fish flick, Piranha. When the trailer for Mirrors initially dropped, though, it appeared that Aja had jumped ...more