This is a horror movie so ultimately there are rules that will be followed. Those are to be expected here and I've only seen a few horror movies that didn't follow those rules, this is not one of those films. Other than that the movie is slickly produced with a good villain in the mirror, whose presence dominates the movie. As a prop the mirror does a great job of being menacing while all it does is just hang there. The person who crafted it for the movie did a great job.
Also this movie doesn't have the normal lovers in peril but relies on a family dynamic of a brother and sister, which is handled with great skill by the two leads. There is a lot of duality going on within the film, which is to be expected because the mirror is the horror object of the movie: reality vs. the past, physical vs. psychological just to name a couple. This duality adds a lot of things to the movie's storyline as the carnage and blood start to pile up to final conclusion.
Overall I found this movie an interesting addition of the horror genre but not one that expands on anything previously offered. If you're in the mood for something entertaining and not to taxing on the mind, you can't really go wrong with this.
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