I did my synopsis bit for Alexandre Aja's Mirrors (2008) on the 19th, so I will reflect on other things. I think Aja really took off running in regards to pleasing the base that loves a good bit of grisly violence. Mirrors provide broken, cracked glass, and anyone familiar with Aja knows he's not a filmmaker afraid to explicitly demonstrate a throat being gashed open on screen. It is soon revealed that Kiefer's ex-cop, coping with sobriety out of a battle with the bottle after accidentally shooting a man, is taking his position... security guard for a derelict building, once a pearl in the city.
The Mayflower building was a shopping center that was gutted and devastated by a fire that tore all the way through it, enveloping it's glamor and prestige. 1952, the building was a closed down mental hospital refurbished into the shopping center that shows faint reminders of what it once was, peeking out ever so slightly from the burnt charred visage it now exhibits.
God, the Mayflower is a thing of tragic beauty. I can just see paranormal investigators and their EVPs clamoring to get into the place. The blackened floors and walls, debris and roasted mannequins, flooded basement with that certain room walled up from sight soon discovered by Sutherland which has a chilling significance. They behind the mirrors in that room want their Anna back, victims in St. Matthew's Hospital taken from their human host and wanting to return.
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Night Watchman mirror demon slits his throat
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| Kiefer spots handprints |
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| Although wasted in too small a part, Kiefer's sister in the film is played by Amy Smart |
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| Paula Patton is Kiefer's wife, torn about her estrangement with him |
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| Demon Anna, a force Kiefer will need to contend with. |
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