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* TheReveal: That dead woman in the mirror? You know, the one who's going around torturing/slaughtering everyone to death? [[spoiler: She's the vengeful spirit of the new employee who died thanks to several characters trying to slander her by drugging and raping her, and then covering up her death.]]
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* MadnessMantra: Gary Lewis, and all the night watchmen before him, either created a RoomFullOfCrazy, left a DyingClue, or tried to pass on verbal messages (of [[YouHaveToBelieveMe varying degrees of sanity]]) to both explain their actions and get someone to help free the trapped spirits: Esseker. It isn't until Ben with his policeman's skills (and his friend on the force doing some clandestine digging in the records) that anyone is able to figure out what it actually ''means'', then put the pieces together and track it down so they can resolve the UnfinishedBusiness[=/=]GhostlyGoals of Mayflower.
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* WhamShot: Although the very last shot of the movie is one of these as well, that's just the ultimate denouement. The real WhamShot begins when Ben, after escaping from the battle with the demon, tries to get the cops, firemen, and emergency workers to pay attention to him...[[spoiler:and then sees the backward text on one cop's badge. The camera lingers on this before flashing to all other signs and text in the scene, showing the same thing.]]
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* DramaticShattering: As might be expected in a movie about (evil) mirrors. Both the normal version (when Anna [[spoiler:lets herself get re-possessed in the MadScientist's mirror chamber]]) and a version with a MomentOfSilence (when all the spirits are freed) occur.
* EldritchLocation: The Mayflower department store has become this thanks to DemonicPossession and being [[AndIMustScream an otherworldly prison]] for the ghosts of those who have died there. While the store itself doesn't have any strange geometry (though being burned out it ''is'' quite creepy), TheMaze of tunnels beneath it is rather unsettling and the DemonicPossession allows for many strange visions, images, and effects throughout it, including some very disturbing AllJustADream[=/=]ThatWasNotADream sequences.
* EldritchLocation: The Mayflower department store has become this thanks to DemonicPossession and being [[AndIMustScream an otherworldly prison]] for the ghosts of those who have died there. While the store itself doesn't have any strange geometry (though being burned out it ''is'' quite creepy), TheMaze of tunnels beneath it is rather unsettling and the DemonicPossession allows for many strange visions, images, and effects throughout it, including some very disturbing AllJustADream[=/=]ThatWasNotADream sequences.
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* NothingIsScarier: Despite all of the gory deaths, the [[MirrorMonster Mirror Monsters]] with their [[MirrorScare Mirror Scares]], the disturbing imagery and the DemonicPossession, it's Ben's long, slow, quiet explorations of the burned-out Mayflower store (and the hidden tunnels from its AbandonedHospital days) that provide some of the scariest and most suspenseful moments in the movie. The iconic image from the page photo is itself an example of this, as the true meaning of a handprint on the ''inside'' of a mirror sinks in. And at the very end of the movie, in the middle of what seems a normal street scene of cops, firemen, and emergency workers cleaning up after the battle with the demon is over, the scariest moments come when [[spoiler:Ben, unable to get anyone to pay attention to him or even hear him, suddenly realizes all the signs and text he can see are backwards]], and [[spoiler:the very last shot of the movie...just another normal, bustling street scene with people going about their business, completely unaware of Ben's handprint on the window]]...
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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Anna's]] original issue, which she [[MustMakeAmends must face again in order to free the souls of the trapped spirits]]. [[ShownTheirWork Is likely a nod to]] the original, [[ScienceMarchesOn now-outdated]] [[Literature/TheBible religious notion]] that people with mental disorders were possessed by demons. Only here, [[ParanoiaFuel it's]] [[FridgeHorror true]].
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->''You get a lot of suicide cases where people have slashed their own throats? Didn't think so.''
''Mirrors'' is a 2008 horror film directed by AlexandreAja, and stars Kiefer Sutherland. The film was first titled ''Into the Mirror'', but the name was later changed to ''Mirrors''. Filming began on May 1, 2007, and it was released in American theaters on August 15, 2008.
The film was originally scripted as a straightforward remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film ''Into the Mirror'', which is rated PG. However, once Aja was brought on board and read the script, he was dissatisfied with the particulars of the original film's story. He decided to retain the original film's basic idea involving mirrors, and to incorporate a few of its scenes, but otherwise crafted a new story and script for his version of the movie. ''Mirrors'' is the first Aja film to achieve an R rating without the need for scenes to be cut.
The movie follows Ben, a former police officer, as he takes an overnight security guard position in a burned-down department store. [[OldestOnesInTheBook As might be expected]], an evil force in the mirrors takes the form of your reflection, and whatever harm it imposes on itself happens to the real person. Now Ben has to figure out how to stop it before it kills his family, then him.
A direct-to-DVD sequel has been completed and is scheduled for release on October 19, 2010, apparently unrelated to the events of the first one. When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.
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* AbandonedHospital: What Mayflower was before it became a department store. Complete with [[TortureCellar rooms sealed in the basement]] where [[ColdBloodedTorture disturbing]] [[MadScientist psychiatric experiments]] were carried out, and a massacre of the inmates which led to its closing.
* AndIMustScream: The fates of all the mirror victims now trapped within them [[spoiler:(and Ben)]].
* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Ben ends up trapped in a mirror world, seemingly unable to return, where nobody can sense him.]]
* AllJustADream: Ben experiences this several times in the burned-down department store. [[spoiler:Most notably, he was set on fire for several seconds, then it all just went away and he was totally unharmed.]]
* AnotherDimension: And everything is backwards.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The mirror demon, especially when [[spoiler:it is yanked into the physical world]].
* BodyHorror: All deaths the mirrors caused. Oh, and [[spoiler:the nun/Esseker thing.]]
* [[CreativeClosingCredits Creative Opening Credits]]: All the scenes of New York shown during the opening credits are depicted as mirror images constantly shifting, changing shape, joining, and splitting apart, with the text also appearing both backwards and forwards. [[spoiler:This could be considered {{Foreshadowing}} of what happens to Ben at the end.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Everyone'' who died in this movie. Eesh.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ben is trapped in the mirror world.]]
* EvilTwin: Everyone's reflection.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. By the time Ben shows his family photo to Anna, we already know they are in grave danger; showing her the photo was meant to garner her sympathy so as to ''prevent'' their deaths. At first it doesn't seem to work, but eventually it does.
* GenreShift: Most of the movie is a horror film, plain and simple. However, [[spoiler:the 15 minutes where Ben holds a nun at gunpoint, saying, "My family will not die today," then engaging in a gun/fistfight with the demon yanked from the mirror, seemed far more like a cross between TwentyFour and MortalKombat]]. Also, much of the story which is not action or horror plays off as a cross between a mystery and a psychological thriller. (The latter is especially apparent when, apart from the scenes the viewer sees of Angela's death and Michael seeing the burning woman in the mirror, it isn't clear whether the supernatural events are real or all in Ben's head, and those of each of the night watchmen before him.)
* GlasgowGrin: [[spoiler:Angela's reflection kills Angela by giving her one of these WITH HER BARE HANDS.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Invariably averted. We see everything. And because deaths always happen in front of a mirror, we see everything ''from different angles''.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Oh those mirrors.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the alternate ending, [[spoiler:Michael is saved because Ben encounters him in the water and pushes him back out to the real world. It is implied this might be why he ends up in the mirror world at the end, because he took his place.]]
* JawBreaker: One of the deaths.
* KillItWithFire: The department store was burned down in an attempt to defeat the evil in the mirrors, with the logic that fire is the only way to truly destroy a mirror. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* MagicMirror: Please don't tell me you need this one explained to you.
* MirrorMonster: Or this one.
* MirrorScare: Or this one. (It's even obligatory here because of the premise.)
* MomentOfSilence: Used very effectively for Ben's reaction to Angie's death. Appears again, oddly enough, near the end when all the mirrors shatter, with the only sound being either a sad orchestral piece or a haunting chorus.
* NunsAreSpooky: Taken to an extreme, after [[spoiler:Anna is re-possessed]].
* OminousLatinChanting: During the opening credits. This and the effectively ominous, disturbing arrangement of the main theme itself, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJN6RzlJbY Isaac Albeniz's "Asturias"]], [[YourMileageMayVary could be considered]] a CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* OnlySaneMan: Nobody believes Ben. [[spoiler:Angela gets killed because she didn't listen.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: In-story, Ben's reaction to mirrors being everywhere around him, particularly during the breakdown scene where he tries to cover them all, is considered this by everyone else, especially his wife. Of course as the audience knows and his wife discovers, he's ProperlyParanoid.[[invoked]]
* ShoutOut: In Michael's room, there is a poster of MahouSenseiNegima and in Daisy's room, there is a poster of TsubasaReservoirChronicle. It raises some strange questions as to why a six-year old would be watching or reading heavy {{Ecchi}}...
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:This is how the mirrors kill Gary Lewis.]]
** Averted when Amy [[spoiler:rescues Michael from his reflection attempting to do this to him.]]
*** Switched in the Unrated cut where Amy prevents her mirror duplicate from doing this to Daisy.
* {{Typecasting}}: You have to believe the writers did this to Kiefer Sutherland, given that [[spoiler:the character he played basically turned into [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] in the final 20 minutes]].
* UpToEleven: All the ways the mirrors kill or attempt to kill anyone.
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!! The sequel contains examples of
* RapeAsBackstory
* FanService: Christy Carlson Romano is half naked about to take a shower.
** YourMileageMayVary of course considering her roles in Disney shows like EvenStevens makes it difficult for people who have watched that to see her be naked [[spoiler:and die]] in this.
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[[caption-width-right:240:Ben learns the (first) secret of the mirrors [[spoiler:and gets a {{Foreshadowing}} of his own fate]]]]
->''You get a lot of suicide cases where people have slashed their own throats? Didn't think so.''
''Mirrors'' is a 2008 horror film directed by AlexandreAja, and stars Kiefer Sutherland. The film was first titled ''Into the Mirror'', but the name was later changed to ''Mirrors''. Filming began on May 1, 2007, and it was released in American theaters on August 15, 2008.
The film was originally scripted as a straightforward remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film ''Into the Mirror'', which is rated PG. However, once Aja was brought on board and read the script, he was dissatisfied with the particulars of the original film's story. He decided to retain the original film's basic idea involving mirrors, and to incorporate a few of its scenes, but otherwise crafted a new story and script for his version of the movie. ''Mirrors'' is the first Aja film to achieve an R rating without the need for scenes to be cut.
The movie follows Ben, a former police officer, as he takes an overnight security guard position in a burned-down department store. [[OldestOnesInTheBook As might be expected]], an evil force in the mirrors takes the form of your reflection, and whatever harm it imposes on itself happens to the real person. Now Ben has to figure out how to stop it before it kills his family, then him.
A direct-to-DVD sequel has been completed and is scheduled for release on October 19, 2010, apparently unrelated to the events of the first one. When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.
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!! This movie contains examples of
* AbandonedHospital: What Mayflower was before it became a department store. Complete with [[TortureCellar rooms sealed in the basement]] where [[ColdBloodedTorture disturbing]] [[MadScientist psychiatric experiments]] were carried out, and a massacre of the inmates which led to its closing.
* AndIMustScream: The fates of all the mirror victims now trapped within them [[spoiler:(and Ben)]].
* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Ben ends up trapped in a mirror world, seemingly unable to return, where nobody can sense him.]]
* AllJustADream: Ben experiences this several times in the burned-down department store. [[spoiler:Most notably, he was set on fire for several seconds, then it all just went away and he was totally unharmed.]]
* AnotherDimension: And everything is backwards.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The mirror demon, especially when [[spoiler:it is yanked into the physical world]].
* BodyHorror: All deaths the mirrors caused. Oh, and [[spoiler:the nun/Esseker thing.]]
* [[CreativeClosingCredits Creative Opening Credits]]: All the scenes of New York shown during the opening credits are depicted as mirror images constantly shifting, changing shape, joining, and splitting apart, with the text also appearing both backwards and forwards. [[spoiler:This could be considered {{Foreshadowing}} of what happens to Ben at the end.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Everyone'' who died in this movie. Eesh.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ben is trapped in the mirror world.]]
* EvilTwin: Everyone's reflection.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. By the time Ben shows his family photo to Anna, we already know they are in grave danger; showing her the photo was meant to garner her sympathy so as to ''prevent'' their deaths. At first it doesn't seem to work, but eventually it does.
* GenreShift: Most of the movie is a horror film, plain and simple. However, [[spoiler:the 15 minutes where Ben holds a nun at gunpoint, saying, "My family will not die today," then engaging in a gun/fistfight with the demon yanked from the mirror, seemed far more like a cross between TwentyFour and MortalKombat]]. Also, much of the story which is not action or horror plays off as a cross between a mystery and a psychological thriller. (The latter is especially apparent when, apart from the scenes the viewer sees of Angela's death and Michael seeing the burning woman in the mirror, it isn't clear whether the supernatural events are real or all in Ben's head, and those of each of the night watchmen before him.)
* GlasgowGrin: [[spoiler:Angela's reflection kills Angela by giving her one of these WITH HER BARE HANDS.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Invariably averted. We see everything. And because deaths always happen in front of a mirror, we see everything ''from different angles''.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Oh those mirrors.
* HeroicSacrifice: In the alternate ending, [[spoiler:Michael is saved because Ben encounters him in the water and pushes him back out to the real world. It is implied this might be why he ends up in the mirror world at the end, because he took his place.]]
* JawBreaker: One of the deaths.
* KillItWithFire: The department store was burned down in an attempt to defeat the evil in the mirrors, with the logic that fire is the only way to truly destroy a mirror. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* MagicMirror: Please don't tell me you need this one explained to you.
* MirrorMonster: Or this one.
* MirrorScare: Or this one. (It's even obligatory here because of the premise.)
* MomentOfSilence: Used very effectively for Ben's reaction to Angie's death. Appears again, oddly enough, near the end when all the mirrors shatter, with the only sound being either a sad orchestral piece or a haunting chorus.
* NunsAreSpooky: Taken to an extreme, after [[spoiler:Anna is re-possessed]].
* OminousLatinChanting: During the opening credits. This and the effectively ominous, disturbing arrangement of the main theme itself, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJN6RzlJbY Isaac Albeniz's "Asturias"]], [[YourMileageMayVary could be considered]] a CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
* OnlySaneMan: Nobody believes Ben. [[spoiler:Angela gets killed because she didn't listen.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: In-story, Ben's reaction to mirrors being everywhere around him, particularly during the breakdown scene where he tries to cover them all, is considered this by everyone else, especially his wife. Of course as the audience knows and his wife discovers, he's ProperlyParanoid.[[invoked]]
* ShoutOut: In Michael's room, there is a poster of MahouSenseiNegima and in Daisy's room, there is a poster of TsubasaReservoirChronicle. It raises some strange questions as to why a six-year old would be watching or reading heavy {{Ecchi}}...
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:This is how the mirrors kill Gary Lewis.]]
** Averted when Amy [[spoiler:rescues Michael from his reflection attempting to do this to him.]]
*** Switched in the Unrated cut where Amy prevents her mirror duplicate from doing this to Daisy.
* {{Typecasting}}: You have to believe the writers did this to Kiefer Sutherland, given that [[spoiler:the character he played basically turned into [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] in the final 20 minutes]].
* UpToEleven: All the ways the mirrors kill or attempt to kill anyone.
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!! The sequel contains examples of
* RapeAsBackstory
* FanService: Christy Carlson Romano is half naked about to take a shower.
** YourMileageMayVary of course considering her roles in Disney shows like EvenStevens makes it difficult for people who have watched that to see her be naked [[spoiler:and die]] in this.
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