Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton. Directed by Alexandre Aja. (18A) 110 min. Opens Aug 15.
RED RUM were the scariest two words when spoken together in the ‘80s, but unlike this haunting backwards-spiel, Alexandra Aja fails to knick the spook-burg. This flick sinks to using classic terror tactics — the ghost in the mirror, the kid with the knife, the thing that’s there and then not — but Aja never accomplishes anything cool or original with his reflective props.
The director does produce a few startling moments and the odd gruesome scene but Mirrors, the latest installment in the not-so-scary scary movie genre, won’t have your girlfriend buried in your arms. She will be boggled more than frightened of ex-cop Ben Carson’s (Kiefer Sutherland) plight to appease a set of perfume-store mirrors before they REDRUM his wife and kids. If the loud bangs and shocking ghosts don’t get your palms sweating, be warned the script is bad enough to make any man let out a shriek.
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