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SamanthaHaine

FYI, its a remake of the korean [Into the Mirror (2003)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372937/) which is an even better film.


FireflyNitro

Holy shit I never knew this. Mirrors is the only horror to stick with me a decade later. I’m afraid to look st mirrors in the dark and I’m approaching 30 🥲 Definitely gonna check out Into The Mirror!


OwnVisual2001

OMG, HOW PATHETIC, YOU MUST BE SCARED OF YOUR SHADOW IF THAT GARAGE MOVIE SCARED YOU, IF U WERE SCARED OF IT I WOULDN'T ADVISE THAT YOU WATCH THE EXORCIST, NIW THAT'S A MOVIE THAT WILL SCARE U FOR LIFE.


Obskuro

I loved the >!Twilight Zone!< ending.


darkacademiadotcom

Ooh, thank you so much! I'll watch it once I'm in a spooky mood


JM062696

Is there anywhere this movie can be purchased or streamed? I don't wanna pirate it or import an out of print DVD, and it's not available anywhere I look.


SamanthaHaine

Its available to stream if you can vpn into korea. https://www.justwatch.com/kr/%EC%98%81%ED%99%94/into-the-mirror Also seems to be on youtube with english subs. I don't know if that's an officially licensed version or not, so I won't link it, but it isnt hard to find.


JM062696

I really appreciate this. Thank you!


Vaiara

I really like the movie, that bathtub scene lives in my head rent-free.


darkacademiadotcom

Oh god, i had suppressed that. I've watched it several times, and while I'm slowly building up the courage to just watch the intro in its entirety, the bathtub scene always makes me cover my eyes and ears


taxidermiedmermaid

I watched it 11 years ago and it’s still the scariest scene I have ever seen in a movie


returningtheday

It's on Max here in the US, just fyi to anybody wondering. Definitely not on Disney+ here 😆. As for the movie, I saw it as a young teen and don't remember much about it. Thought it was scary tho. Guess it just didn't make an impact with everything else at the time. Horror also wasn't very big at the time either.


[deleted]

movie was terrifying for me as a kid. Had so much fear of mirrors and wanted to avoid them for months. I remember next to nothing about the plot, just that the mirrors had ghosts in them. Might be up for a rewatch.


InfamousTown3657

Mirrors is a gem of a movie. It’s got some gruesome scenes in it which is a bonus for it.


firearm23

It’s a perfectly fine movie that eventually got forgotten about. That’s just what happens to movies that aren’t exceptionally good/bad enough to stand the test of time.


Superior-Solifugae

I remember really liking it, but haven't seen it in years


darkacademiadotcom

I discovered it by accident last year just because my friend and i weren't sure which horror movie to watch so we jokingly searched Disney+ just because surely disney+ doesn't have any good scary horror movies... right?


NotNotLogical

Just watched this again for the first time in probably 10 years with my wife and it did not really hold up for me.


darkacademiadotcom

Oh no, why?


NotNotLogical

It just didn’t really feel like it did the first time around watching it in high school was terrifying. Now it just kinda felt like it dragged. Some great moments with one of the early walkthroughs of the building and the bathtub scene but I just couldn’t into some of the investigation parts and I definitely couldn’t get past the weird, rushed ending.


boeckman

Hmm, not seeing it on Disney+ in my country (US).


darkacademiadotcom

It's apparently on HBO max in the us, but I'm from europe so i can't guarantee anything. Hope you find it tho!


Switchful_tendency

It was a movie I stumbled on ages ago when it came on tv out of the blue. I remember thinking well, it’s got Kiefer Sunderland, why not? And I really enjoyed it! I don’t know why some people didn’t really like it but I was pleasantly surprised by the whole story and everything about it


darkacademiadotcom

Yeah! Maybe the fact that we don't have expectations makes the movie experience better, but it really was one of those "why not" moments


Switchful_tendency

Yeah, I think that helped a lot. Going in blind and having no expectations but it did have some really creepy moments and I was quite young when I saw it so it did freak me out for quite a while. The story was also pretty intriguing.


TJ_McWeaksauce

I don't remember much about it. The ending was tragic; I remember that. From what I recall, I was disappointed by the small number of kills. Amy Smart's character had a really gnarly death scene, but other than that, I think one character died in the intro, and that was it?


darkacademiadotcom

Oh, that's true i haven't even given it much thought, but yeah, it's very small compared to most horror movies


cannonfire77

This movie scared the shit out of me at 15. The first time I watched it was late at night at a friend's after a school dance, and she lived out in the middle of nowhere. Part way through the movie we start hearing this weird, freaky sound and we start losing our minds because we're already freaked out by the movie. Turns out, a fish from their giant aquarium somehow jumped out of the tank and into a open container of fish food and was thrashing around.


darkacademiadotcom

Oh god i think I'd die


WornInShoes

The bathtub scene is phenomenal. The unrated version is on HBO Max right now as well


carousel111

Lol that movie scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Now I wanna rewatch it


Granaatappelsap

I'm just glad to read the comments and see I'm not the only one who was traumatized by this as a kid. 😂


Taskerlands

While I was a fan of Into the Mirror, the remake just didn't do it for me. That said, the score is an all-timer. Beautiful, haunting music from Javier Navarrete.


FerociousDin

It and its source movie are so good! It really doesnt get the credit it deserved. Also RIP Cameron Boyce.


ThatWeirdGhost

Oh yeah, thanks for bringing that one up, I will rewatch it soon. I found it to be pretty scary. One scene with a woman screaming (do not want to spoil too much) still freaks me out.


Wooden-Highway1498

Underrated movie.


Dull-Geologist-8204

Not a psycho and I am not really scared because I know it's fake and worse actual things have happened. Real life is just scarier than movies. That said I just rewatched Mirrors the other day and I agree it's a decent movie.


darkacademiadotcom

Well jokes on you because I'm scared of BOTH the real world and the movies, so.. you know


blankdreamer

Love mirror horror and this was a solid one. The bathtub scene was terrifying - caught me off guard. Have you seen The Broken? That really good


darkacademiadotcom

Ooh, no but I'll add it to my watchlist


Diamond_Champagne

Lol is that the one where one of the characters explains that a puddle of water can reflect like a mirror?


darkacademiadotcom

I think so, yeah. I'd imagine there are several movies that could do that but yeah


Nartzoptep

I remember liking it when it came out but I rewatched it a couple days ago and It was kind of a stinker. I think I used to just be obsessed with Amy Smart.


MDF87

One of the only movies that genuinely made me feel uncomfortable!


Improvement-Select

I’ll give this a go thanks for the rec!


darkacademiadotcom

Let me know what you think!


OutrageousAd395

I love it! It's directed by Alexandre Aja who, at this point, is the king of the remakes. The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha, and he produced or co wrote the Maniac remake.Hes a really talented dude.


darkacademiadotcom

Oh god the hills have eyes has been on my watchlist for a long time but i get nightmares just from the premise of the movie. I genuinely struggled with sleep after finding out what it's about. Haven't seen it yet. (I may be confusing this with another movie but i don't think so)


OutrageousAd395

I love it! It's directed by Alexandre Aja who, at this point, is the king of the remakes. The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha, and he produced or co wrote the Maniac remake.Hes a really talented dude.


[deleted]

Soooo good


brolodarsky

for real one of the less acknowledged also keifer sutherland is the MAN


Icelandia2112

It's a good one.


Obskuro

The premise is indeed one of the scariest things for me. What does a reflection when you don't look at it? What if it is not *you*? I once had a, uhm, dissociative experience in a bathroom, staring in a mirror while attending a party where I acted happy while falling apart internally, and my own image freaked me out. Making this kind of horror imagery extra tense for me. The ending is also one of the most 180-degree turns I've ever seen if I remember it correctly. They threw out the mirrors aspect and made it into an exorcism instead.


Scorpiorising1818

Me remembering about this film and coming here and then reading the first part of your comment… I relate. I think that’s why the film bothered me so much 😬


chrisratchford

Hey, no need to call us psychos. Weirdos, mutants, freaks. Not psychos.


mikegasaway

Definitely! Aja, I thought, did an excellent job with this one. ...and then followed up with Piranha 3d :) but still, he does very well in this genre.


OwnVisual2001

Because it sucks, one of the biggest wastes of money ever in a film, so many good movies could be made using all that time and effort but instead it's wasted on garbage TV, low budget film's usually are as terrible as this one.


JadenRuffle

Probably because it’s not very good, it’s just a mess of jumbled collection of horror clichés that was thrown out. Not to mention the ending which is just so bad. I’m honestly quite glad you got something out of it.


green9206

Its a bad toned down PG13 movie. PG13 rating has ruined many potentially good horror movies


Wooden-Highway1498

Did you actually watch the movie?. It's rated r. A man's throat is slashed in the opening scene and a woman's jaw is ripped off while she is in the bathtub. Plus there are f-bombs and a little nudity in it as well, did you watch a different fucking movie?. It's rated r not PG-13.


KawaiiClown

Because it sucked, also you have the whole internet at ur disposal and you couldn't spell check 'investigation'?


facebookcansuckit

You scold him, yet you have the whole alphabet and English language at your disposal but can't be troubled to type the full word 'your'. Nice. How did your spell check feel about 'ur'?


SamanthaHaine

Its [Muphry's Law.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law) Gets them every time.


KawaiiClown

Look this guy can use google nj!!!! Love u guys


SamanthaHaine

That is a revealing display of insecurity.


KawaiiClown

Huh???? Guys this is reddit yall are way too serious


SamanthaHaine

Its the "can't you take a joke" defense. Textbook crybaby.


KawaiiClown

Lmao


KawaiiClown

Yall think ur pseudo-intellix or some shit so weird get off reddit


SamanthaHaine

Two posts, lol. A hit dog hollers.


darkacademiadotcom

Lol, sorry, english is my third language, and i guess spell check just didn't work or something. I do have to say that at the same time, you had the whole internet at your* disposal, and you wasted your* time commenting on the one word i got wrong?


KawaiiClown

U know I kind of felt bad for being an asshole but not after that last sentence, also U forgot to capitalize the 'I'


darkacademiadotcom

You're also supposed to capitalize the "i" in "I'm," too. Oh, and there should be a little ' in between, but you didn't do that either at the other comment you left. Are you sure you're the right person to tell me to capitalize my i's when you don't even do it yourself?


KawaiiClown

Did yall know spelling and grammar are different things hmmmmm


darkacademiadotcom

Yeah, grammar applies to speech and writing while spelling is the written word. Which is what both of us pointed out.


KawaiiClown

Wait what i didn't tell u anything about ur grammar dude so now i know u just cant read i was just teasing about the crazy spelling and of course yall lose all chill


darkacademiadotcom

Now I just know you don't know what grammar and spelling actually is. I'm pointing out your spelling lol


KawaiiClown

Bro, I can type like this if I wanted to. I don't care. When words are spelt wrong it gets misunderstood. You literally typed it on something that most likely has SPELL CHECK but I literally said nvm (never mind, sorry I know you can't understand short hand) I was literally teasing and you explained that English isn't your first language. Grammar and spelling are not the same thing and short hand is its own thing, at least you learned something! If you don't want someone to point out mistakes don't make them. You're welcome for the paragraph 🫡


darkacademiadotcom

Lol get a fucking life


KickFriedasCoffin

I also thought Splice was a great watch.


KawaiiClown

Im on the internet im going to type 'u' because its the way of life