This disaster of a movie has nothing to recommend. While the actors try hard enough there is little they can do with such a nonsensical script. The plot – what plot? After looking at 14 other houses the female lead is attracted to this one which seems to give her an orgasm just looking around it. From there it's all downhill. For anyone with an IQ of seven or less this will probably be an attractive thing to watch, else wise it is a turkey.The direction is poor, the photography is appalling and thumps and gurgles that are substituted for 'music' really turn this shocker into an ordeal to sit through, torture at the top end of the scale. Miss this if you can ...

I stumbled upon this movie thinking it was a new TV show in the genre of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Dark Side. It has the production value of a TV show but it soon became apparent that it was a movie that I'd just never heard of before.It started out promising enough (though clichéd) with a family moving in to a new house, which happens to be haunted. Strange things start happening to the wife involving mirrors. Pretty soon the writers find themselves tripping over the plot twists and story lines. The husband's complete lack of concern over the safety of his family, even as he suspects that his wife is a sociopath, makes no sense. The wife struggles with trying to figure out if the house is haunted or if she's crazy. A struggle shared by the writers, I might add. Much like Pirates of the Caribbean 2, the writers threw together a bunch of random story lines and never got them to gel together or make any sense.I will say that the movie was interesting enough to keep me watching, but the ending was disappointing because it never tied the story lines together.

This is an excellent horror movie, and I will tell you step by step, why. Although the sources of writer-director Pablo Proenza are unknown to me, the plot makes systematical use of what is called in logic "poly-contextural" elements. Examples are: The exchange relation between a sign and its object, especially a painting and the real, painted person, or the exchange relation between two persons, by which operation the identity relation of the individual is abolished. The possibility that one person can appear at the same time in more than one place - thereby abolishing the Aristotelian triad of individual, place and time. The idea that Death does not abolish the individuality of a person, although it may well abolish its body and the related idea that the will, but not the thinking, of a dead person can survive and therefore influence the lives of the living. "Poly-contextural" is also the idea that "ghosts" can be imprisoned in prismatic glass (windows) or in whole houses, so also the idea/motive of the "Haunted House" has "poly-contextural" roots.In systematically using such motives the horror movies of the new generation do a big quality jump over their ancestors. Not only a quantity jump - by using more and even complexer technical effects which, at the end, dissolve themselves, but by bringing out the deepest horror which mankind is possibly able to sense: the idea to stand before oneself, the doubling of personality, the non-difference between life and death, the reversibility of the path between the Here and the Beyond and so on. This is not Science-Fiction, but based on solid logical Cybernetics, developed mainly in the US since the 50ies.Congratulations to the director for this masterpiece! May he continue his way and become the ice-breaker for a real, qualitatively and not only quantitatively new generation of the horror film.

I really enjoyed Dark Mirror. It's not your typical scary movie, but that's what makes it so good. The story grips you right from the beginning and never allows you to catch your breath. The plot revolves around a photographer who, after moving into the perfect (and yet, creepy) old house, discovers that there are secrets hidden in the house's glass windows and mirrors that only her camera can reveal. The film moves at such a rapid pace and the suspense never lets up, so much so that I didn't foresee the very clever plot twist at the end of the film coming. A couple of the actors turn in campy performances, but given the spooky, off-putting world into which this film immediately transports us, they didn't bother me or seem to be out of place. Lisa Vidal shines in the lead role of Deborah, and director Pablo Proenza should be very proud of his work in steering this highly inventive film to its final, disturbing conclusion. I recommend this film not only because it's different than anything that I've seen recently, but it's very effective at scaring its audience. Just don't watch this one alone!