Mirrors 2 **½ (2010, Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Evan Jones, William Katt, Christy Romano) – Classic Movie Review 4626

And so, the terror lives on as Nick Stahl stars as our new hero Max Matheson in director Víctor García’s well-crafted 2010 horror thriller sequel to the 2008 hit Mirrors.

This time, our hero is Max, who, after his girlfriend dies alongside him in a car crash, takes a job as a security guard at the department store, The Mayflower (the eerie building from the first film) where his father Jack (William Katt) works.

Max puts it down to grief when he notices something odd in the store’s mirrors (also as before), but then he starts seeing visions of his co-workers suffering horrific deaths and also of a missing girl. Can he unravel all this mystery in time?

It has humble origins in a cost-conscious made-for-DVD sequel to a remake (of Sung-ho Kim’s Korean original motion picture Geoul sokeuno). But, all things considered, it is pretty eerie, effective and even quite compelling if you surrender to its nightmarish spell. The material is not spread too thin in Matt Venne’s script, while Lorenzo Senatore’s photography, the effects, the score (Frederik Wiedmann) and the acting all add a slick veneer of lustre.

Stahl does his troubled youth act again with quiet dignity and style. García keeps the film moving briskly and delivers some good shock moments.  And the result is a film about the same quality as the first.

It runs 86 minutes and 91 minutes in the Unrated Edition.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 4626

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