Kiefer Sutherland's "Mirrors" Footage Description

Posted: April 18th, 2008 by WorstPreviews.com Staff

Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes), who directed the upcoming supernatural horror film "Mirrors," told reporters that the movie is not a remake of the 2003 South Korean movie "Into the Mirror," but rather an original story that shares only that film's premise. What if your image in the mirror had a malevolent mind of its own and could do you harm? [via Sci-Fi Wire]

"How many time a day [is] a man or woman ... watching himself or herself in the mirror?" asked Aja. "We realize that we all have a different relation to the mirrors. ... People are upset about their reflection. People can't stand their reflection. ... When you look at yourself, sometimes you also look at yourself to check that you're still yourself, even if it's only in the mirror view."

Aja also screened some very spoilery footage from the movie, which is being released by 20th Century Fox, featuring star Kiefer Sutherland as a troubled ex-New York cop who takes a job as a security guard in the burned-out hulk of a cavernous department store in Manhattan. The footage featured some of Aja's trademark graphic violence.

In a pre-title sequence, a frightened security guard runs through a subway station and ducks into an empty locker room with a huge mirror. When the man's reflection picks up a piece of glass and cuts his own throat, the man's throat opens up bloodily.

In another sequence, Sutherland searches the empty department store for the source of a woman's screams. He enters a ruined dressing room and sees the screaming, burned and disfigured body of a woman in a mirror's reflection, though there is no body in the room itself.

In a third sequence, which takes place midway through the film, a woman lowers herself into a warm bath while her reflection remains in the bathroom mirror, watching her evilly. The reflection then commits a horrible act of graphic violence on herself, which manifests itself on the real woman.

Surprisingly, Aja said that the Motion Picture Association of America gave the film an R rating with no cuts, even with its graphic gore. "We're in a very good way surprised that they let us go with much more than we expected," Aja said.

"Mirrors," which also stars Amy Smart and Paula Patton, will appear in theaters on August 15th.

Click here to read more about "Mirrors."

Source: Sci-Fi Wire