Rating: 3/5
When you break a mirror, you free everything it’s seen
As children, Lacey watches through a mirror as her brother Willy murders their mother’s lover. Twenty years later, Willy is psychosomatically mute, and Lacey has recurring nightmares of the event
To assuage the fear, Lacey’s husband takes her to the childhood home, where the mirror still hangs. In it, she sees the man that Willy killed, and she breaks the mirror in fear, unleashing a malevolent force
The soundtrack rules — its Carpenter-adjacent/Tangerine Dream synth, but sounds like contemporary takes despite being from the 70s
The movie has a faint outline of a theme regarding immature, inconsistent parents vs attentive and loving parents, but it doesn’t land in a place where it feels intentional
Overall, this movie is kind of nonsense and not well-acted, but it has some cool lighting and visuals, and a couple of creative kills
Stray Thoughts
- the most decrepit mounted deer I’ve ever seen
- Suzanna Love does some gnarly voices and noises
- Triumph tee shirt, what a nerd
- Mirror shard eye rules
- The explosion at the end of this looked better than the nuclear explosion in Oppenheimer