Il les contemplait comme de fenetres ouvertes sur l'infini. Mais il les craignait aussi. The mirrors we use today are made of glass that has been coated on one side with a thin layer of reflective silver or aluminum plate.
This kind of glass mirror was first made in Italy in the 16th Century. As technology improved, these glass mirrors spread around the world. But glass mirrors are not the only type of reflecting mirror. In Japan, in fact, glass mirrors were not used until the late 19th Century, in the Meiji Period. Before that time, the Japanese used mirrors made of bronze! These days, we know a lot about the physics of light, so we find nothing mysterious about the reflected image in the mirror or the relationship between the reflection and the reality behind it.
In the old days, however, people did not understand such things, so mirrors were more than just everyday implements; they were thought to have spiritual powers! In the movie Orpheus, by French poet Jean Cocteau, the main character uses a mirror to go from the world of the living to the world of the dead. People must have thought that there was something supernatural or frightening about the images and world reflected in mirrors!
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When the Russell family encounters it for the first time, it leads to the deaths of parents Alan and Marie. Bad news! Megan rolls with it, but when her mother gets mangled in the garbage disposal she turns against her reflective friend and eventually sacrifices herself to stop it. This horror movie gets right to it in the title. A night security guard at a burned-out department store is tormented by visions in the many mirrors still standing, but inside them is a demon that manifested when the building was a psychiatric hospital, or something.
This cult classic has a rep for its innovative and effective effects. One of the hubs for these events is the mirrored bathroom medicine cabinet, which Roger breaks with a footstool to reveal an infinite void full of nasties. The direct-to-DVD sequel is actually better than the first film. Now her ghost is looking to get revenge on the men responsible in a number of pretty solid mirror kill scenes. There are so many great scenes in this movie, but the bit where protagonist David Kessler is in the bathroom and gets the hell scared out of him when his dead friend Jack appears to him in the mirror is an all-timer.
In that movie, doppelgangers identical to regular people but with the positions of their internal organs reversed enter our world through shattering reflections. They proceed to murder the originals for unknown reasons. Great paranoia vibe in this one, along with a lot of breaking glass. One of the earliest films on this list, this surprisingly good horror anthology has a segment built around a cursed mirror that belonged to a cuckolded husband.
The man suspected his wife of cheating on him and killed her before slitting his own throat in front of the mirror. Its new owner then became possessed by the spirit of the glass and nearly duplicated the crime before the mirror was shattered. One of the most memorable scenes involves Dr. Alone at night, he stops in the kitchen for a snack and sees maggots spawning from meat. He then runs to the utility room to wash his face only to see his own flesh peeling from his face in a grisly display.
The original Poltergeist has one very good mirror scare, but the second sequel is built around reflections almost all the way through. Great practical effects by Cal Acord still look convincing today. This Korean horror film was the inspiration for Mirrors , but a bunch of stuff changed along the way.
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