SYNOPSIS:
The events of the movie take place in two different times: 11 years
ago and in the present. The two plotlines are told in parallel through
flashbacks. Eleven years ago, computer developer Alan Russell moves into
a new house with his wife Marie, 10-year-old son Tim, and 13-year-old
daughter Kaylie. Alan purchases an antique mirror to decorate his
office. The mirror induces hallucinations in both adults; Marie is
haunted by visions of her own body putrefying and decaying while she is
still alive, while Alan is seduced by a ghostly woman named Marisol, who
has mirrors in place of eyes.
Over time, the parents become detached and psychotic, with Alan
isolating himself in his office and Marie becoming withdrawn and
paranoid; during the same period, all of the plants in the house die and
the family dog disappears after being locked in the office with the
mirror. After Kaylie witnesses Alan interacting with Marisol and tells
her mother, Marie becomes feral
and, after a period of starving herself, attempts to murder the
children. Alan overpowers her and chains her to their bedroom wall.
Alan remains isolated in his office for an indeterminate period of
time; when the family runs out of food, the children attempt to seek
help from their neighbors, who disbelieve their stories. Attempting to
contact doctors or the authorities, Kaylie discovers that all of her
phone calls are answered by the same man, who admonishes her to speak
with her father.
One night, Alan unchains Marie, and both parents attack the children.
Marie briefly comes to her senses, only to be shot dead by Alan. Alan
corners the children in his office, but also experiences a moment of
lucidity, during which he forces Tim to shoot him to death. The police
arrive and take Tim into custody; before the siblings are separated,
they promise to reunite as adults and destroy the mirror.
Eleven years later, Tim is discharged from a psychiatric hospital,
having come to believe that there were no supernatural events involved
in his parents' deaths. Kaylie, meanwhile, has spent most of her young
adulthood researching the history of the mirror, obsessively documenting
the lives and deaths of everyone who's ever owned it. Using her
position as an employee of an auction house, Kaylie obtains access to
the mirror and has it transported to the family home, where she places
it in a room filled with surveillance cameras in an attempt to document
its powers; using a "kill switch"-- an anchor weighted to the ceiling
and set to a timer-- Kaylie intends to end the night with the mirror
being destroyed, whether or not she herself survives.
Tim joins Kaylie at the house and attempts to convince his sister
that she's rationalized their parents' deaths as being caused by an
external force, in order to avoid facing the truth. The siblings argue
for the duration of the evening until they find that cameras in the room
have inexplicably moved in their absence; reviewing the video, they
realize that the mirror induced them to rearrange the contents of the
room without their knowledge. Tim accepts that the mirror has some
diabolical power and attempts to escape the house with Kaylie, only for
the pair to be repeatedly drawn back by the mirror's influence. Trying
to call the police for help, they are only able to reach the same voice
who spoke to them on the phone as children. The pair begin to
hallucinate and experience visions of everyone killed by the mirror, who
appear as ghostly figures with mirrors in place of their eyes.
As Kaylie is drawn to the mirror by an image of her mother beckoning
to her, Tim experiences a hallucination of being trapped alone in the
room with the mirror. He activates the kill switch, causing the anchor
to descend and fatally impale Kaylie.
The police arrive and arrest a hysterical Tim, who insists that "the
mirror did it." Tim is taken away in the back of a squad car as the
ghosts of his parents and sister watch him from the house.
Classification: 18
Genre: Thriller / Horror
General Release Date: 10 Apr 2014
Running Time: 1 Hour 45 Minutes
Distributor: Rainfilm Sdn Bhd
Cast: Karen Gillan, Rory Cochrane, James Lafferty, Katee Sackhoff, Brenton Thwaites
Director: Mike Flanagan
Format: 2D
Oculus Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Karen Gillan Horror Movie HD
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