(A quick heads-up — no spoilers in here).
For months, I’ve been eagerly anticipating Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors, a remake of the K-horror film Into the Mirror. Not just because Aja is one of the more interesting new voices of horror out there (High Tension was a sick, twisted roller coaster up until an ill-advised late-in-the-game plot twist, and The Hills Have Eyes breathed some new life into one of Wes Craven’s lesser works). But primarily it was because it looked like this was going to be a horror movie for grownups.
First of all, this was an R-rated U.S. remake of an Asian horror film (the first ever? Correct me if I’m wrong — The Ring, The Grudge, Pulse, Dark Water, One Missed Call, Shutter, The Eye — all PG-13.) Secondly, with one secondary-character exception, there’s nary a person on-screen throughout Mirrors between the ages of 15 and 32. Take that, Gossip-Girl-crowd.
So did Aja succeed in actually making a good movie? The answer is…kinda.
