Mirrors started off really creepy, but even though I had taken an ambien after several drinks when I decided to start watching the movie, it still seemed really dumb at times. I had expected improvisational drug and alcohol abuse to really help this type of flick. Oh well.

Now, I totally adore Alexandre Aja, mostly because High Tension is so scary and creepy and delicious, proving so even on second and third viewings, that it’s hard to expect anything less than that from Aja’s other directorial efforts. But even with Kiefer Sutherland’s innate creepiness (which my lovely husband decries, but I maintain that’s just because he hasn’t viddied Eye for an Eye or Freeway which galvanized the basic B-list actor in my mind, changing him from the goofy looking son of big Donald to Kreepy Kief) it just can’t maintain that big scare factor all the way through. I understand that people associate Kiefer Sutherland with 24 more than anything else these days, but I don’t watch that show, so they can believe what they want; I know the truth. What was I saying? Oh, yeah, there were too many dumb, ridiculous moments in the movie that didn’t make sense, and they didn’t even make the film as a whole scarier or creepier. For this, I blame Kreepy Kief.

But we’ll come back to that. The burning, gory pieces of people that were visible in the mirrors but “came to life” in the reflection, (so, real life) were great—pretty much all of the first half of the film was quite frightening, and the scene with Amy Smart’s mouth ripping open was delightfully gory and perfect, but the whole nun story line with the multiple personalities explanation seemed contrived and downright annoying. Just…didn’t…work.

I think this is what the problem is: you can’t put a creepy actor in a film about said actor being harassed by creepiness. You need a non-creepy actor to successfully put the main character through creepiness in any effective way. Now if Kreepy Kief had been doing the creepy stuff, I think it would have been a much better flick. It was still fun to watch though. Do better next time, Aja! I have high hopes!