I find mirrors fascinating from a horror perspective, so I've been checking about a few, and want to talk about this one.
Mandy is 100% channelling Lydia from Beetlejuice, and moves into an old house with her mother after her father recently died. However, in her room is a neat mirror. Did I say neat? I meant evil, portal to demons, that grants Mandy's dark desires. Which leads the goth girl into causing lots of death and harm to people, in order to help out her friend, whether her friends wants it or not. Surely, nothing can go wrong there?
This movie is shot really weirdly. We have standard angles and such, but for some reason whenever the character Emelin is on screen, suddenly we get extreme close up of her face. And then other shots are in slowmo for... I think the movie is trying to emphasis it's creepy or something, but it's at the oddest moments and doesn't work. And then the movie goes pervert by showing a naked woman getting killed in the gym showers (the actress was around 21/22 fortunately, although I'm not sure the character was), while the movie intercuts with the other girls in the pool while it stares longingly at their asses underwater...
While this is a heavily female crew and cast, it says a lot that I recognise two male cameos (Stephen Tobolowsky and William Sanderson) over the others. Fine performances, but I do wonder if the directer wanted Winona Ryder.
Oh hey, there are three more of these? I don't know... but I'm going to, aren't I?
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