pmdawn Having seen and appreciated Mike Flanagan's "Ouija: Origin of Evil", I decided to watch this with reasonably high expectations. The plot is basically about an alledgledly "cursed" mirror, which is mainly explained to us through the eyes of Kaylie, brilliantly played by Karen Gillan. He brother is released from a mental hospital from some dark event that happened when they were kids. The film takes its time and is very well paced and this works in its favor. This is a solid horror film that plays with time, reality and illusions, and it succeeds at every level, not letting go until the very end - which is weirdly satisfying.

janerin-50685 I was suprised at how trippy the film got during the second and third act. I will say the first 30 minutes didnt impress me too much, and I considered turning it off, but once inside their childhood home, things got rolling for our two main characters and I was interested. For the movie as a whole, Id give it a 7/10. Its not perfect, and I may or may not watch it again, but I enjoyed it, and the more I think about it, the more I appreciate it. The ending is grim and the parallels made to the past throughout the film are a nice touch. The way the two stories within the movie (the present and the past) intertwine and interfere with one another is confusing to both the audience and the main characters, which adds to the atmosphere immensely.Its almost as if the characters are high; they lose track of where they are, whats happening, have hallucinations, and time slows down. Its a brilliant touch and I would recommend checking this one out.

WubsTheFadger Short and Simple Review by WubsTheFadgerFirst off, after watching some really good horror films like The Babadook, The Witch, The Conjuring 1 and 2, and a few other, I went into this film with high hopes. The film didn't let me down. The story is told in short flashbacks that connect to the future storyline. The plot is at time very dark and disturbing. The film carefully tells us about the children's experiences with the mirror and how it relates to them now. The atmosphere the film has is haunting and mysterious. The ending is shocking and stunning. The acting is very good. Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane, and Garrett Ryan all perform very well. Annalise Basso, who plays young Kaylie, performs the best in all of her scenes.The pacing is a little slow in the beginning but picks up as the film progresses. The runtime is short which is good.One bad thing about this film is that it is not very scary. I really was never frightened.Pros: Dark and disturbing story, great atmosphere, good ending, good acting, a great performance by Annalise Basso, and a short runtimeCons: Slow pacing in the beginning of the film and the film was not very scaryOverall Rating: 7.1

ninadessinatrice The acting was fine but I was disappointed by this movie. It wasn't that bad, and the filming, sounds and flash backs were actually great, nevertheless, the ending reeally disappoined me. It could have been so much better, like, the sister could have been the one imagining all this, and we'd have seen her inside an asylm at the end, having gone crazy after trying to "kill" the mirror, or even since she was a child, no having been able to cope with her whole family's death, imagining her brother actually being still alove nowdays... And so forth, the possibilities are endless, but dying like this? Too easy for a movie that was kinda good up unti the end.I wish we'd been given more details about the why's and how's of the mirror's killings, origins (I mean the occult origins, not the historical ones that were pretty much given to us in one go at the beginning of the movie) It was sometimes too fast paced and sometimes the total opposite.As I said, It definitely could have been much better since the actors were pretty good and the scenario was a good one. Oh and to the people wondering who the "lady from the office" was, it's simply an illusion / ghost of the woman who died years prior due to a miscarriage/botched abortion, she's briefly mentionned at the beginning in the list of casualties caused by the mirror.