As far as scary mirror movies go, it wasn't horrible to watch. If you're looking for a bone chilling, cowering in the corner of your couch shivering type of scary movie, you won't get it with this. It is a slow to build movie.
A brief synopsis is a haunted mirror is to blame for a man who becomes possessed of sorts, and goes on a murderous rampage. Flash forward many, many years and one of the children, who is convinced of the mirror's evil, decides to video chronicle any abnormalities with the mirror, emotionally manipulating her brother to be a part of something he really should have stayed away from.
I did like the blending of flashbacks from an ill-fated night, being overlaid with present night happenings, and this hallucination/psychological trauma this haunted mirror is causing is somewhat interesting for the first 45 minutes or so, but then it gets old and rather cliche.
The actors were decent, and I think there was a good storyline that could have made for a more suspenseful movie.
If you have some time to kill (no pun intended), it's just suspenseful enough to warrant two hours of watching, but if you're a scary movie enthusiast (as I am), you will be a tad disappointed by the lack of a true chiller.
Having said that, the director of this movie Mike Flanagan, also did an underground movie called Absentia. Again, not something I would label a horror movie, but there is quite a bit of psychological drama and just enough visual imagery disturbance that did actually kind of creep me out by the end of the movie. What I really liked about Absentia is, the actors are not anyone who is well known, and I think that added a realism to the movie that was quite unique.
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