Trailer Tuesday: MIRRORS

Okay, I’m terrified. Maybe because when I initially watched the trailer for Mirrors, it was late and I was alone in a dark house. Or maybe because it preys on exactly every fear instilled in me by growing up with 80s horror movies. Taking a hint from the Poltergeist franchise, Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension) plays to our fear of the unknown – beyond our reflection in that murky puddle or looking glass.

Kiefer Sutherland needs something to do when not putting in 24 hours so he goes all back to the scary (he of Lost Boys, The Vanishing remake and Flatliners). The only problem with this trailer? We see Kiefer for like three seconds. It’s hard to tell if he’ll be all Jack Bauer-like in this film. But we get plenty of Paula Patton (Swing Vote, Deja Vu), as his wife, looking scared, and a little kid (Cameron Boyce) acting all Carol Anne heading toward the light.

Mirrors is the remake of a Korean film about an ex-cop turned security guard (Sutherland) who starts to notice some creepiness with mirrors in the spooky abandoned building where he works. (Where else?!) That creepiness, including mirror images that distort and refuse to shadow its owner, follows people home and makes them do bad, bad things. Want more Sutherland — and more blood? Check out the red band trailer here.

Release Date: August 15, 2008

Also Starring: Amy Smart (Just Friends, The Butterfly Effect)

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July 15th, 2008
Categories: Horror Movies, Trailers . Author: Allison

3 Comments

  1. Comment by nanio on July 16, 2008 1:12 am

    No Donald Sutherland. :( I read the review backwards and my hopes were high.

  2. Comment by Scott on July 16, 2008 4:09 pm

    Heh, Kiefer IS all Jack Bauer from the preview: “Get out of here - NOW!” When will he ever learn to ask, “please?”
    Alright, this has mass-produced, formulaic Asian horror written all over it (The Ring, Dark Water, blah blah blah). But I will admit that late at night, when there is only a dull ambient glow in the house, if I dare look at my silhouette in a mirror, I think to myself in utter fright, “please let there be no silhouette behind me.”
    Spooky.

  3. Comment by Allison on July 16, 2008 10:47 pm

    Yeah, nanio, I should have stuck with Kiefer but it felt a little presumptuous of me to act like we’re on a first name basis. How I wish.

    Scott, I actually think I could never make myself say Bloody Mary into the mirror in a dark room. It just seems wrong to tempt it.

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