Welcome to the Attic, don’t get near the mirror.

No seriously, don’t get near that mirror. In fact, don’t watch Oculus at all. It’s terrible. I am seriously disappointed I just wasted a good hour and forty-five minutes of my life on this. And now, I must waste more time on this article. But I am the Dark Princess, guardian of all things scary, and it’s a part of my job that I sometimes take one for the team and warn others of the travesties of the horror genre.

I know I’ve never slayed into a movie like this before here, but this is one for the books. It’s not only not scary, but it’s… it… it made me ANGRY. Let me run down the basic synopsis of it and maybe you’ll begin to understand.

Two siblings, a brother and sister, have a bad childhood to say the least. They are moving into a new home with their parents and their father shells out far too much money on an old mirror. It is unclear why he bothers, but he does. As time goes on he goes, well, kinda mental. Aggressive and quiet at the same time, stewing in his office with this old mirror on the wall. Their mother begins to lose her grip as well, and eventually also succumbs to the mental illness brought on by the mirror. Flash-forward to modern day, and the son is being released from a mental institution on his twenty-first birthday. He has dreamed that he raised a gun to his younger self, and sister, and pulled the trigger. His doctor sees this as an acceptance of responsibility for his actions as a young kid, and advises the man is ready to function in normal everyday life. Yes, because dreaming you shoot yourself… that there is a sign of a healthy young lad.

The sister, aka killer of everything around her

So his sister, selfish bitch that she is, uses his release as the sign that they are ready to steal this mirror, bring it back to their childhood home where both their parents died, and “kill it” (meaning the mirror). Yes, this family is full of healthy people. So she sets up this experiment, all while dragging her younger brother along, who by the way, had to shoot and kill their father in self defense after the father killed their mother. So this girl sets up cameras, temperature gauges, and many other supplies. She begins to speak into the camera about who they are, and what they’re doing. She is looking to clear the name of her father, and proceeds to list all of the people in history who have owned this mirror and also met some tragic demise. For the most part, people self harm or harm others, but many also starve and/or dehydrate to death as well. So she also sets up a timer to go off every hour, to ensure that they remember to eat and drink water to prevent this rapid decaying of their bodies that she expects.

Her other precaution is to have her poor fiance call her every hour, on the hour, to make sure she is still ok. If she does not answer, he is to call the police and assume something has happened to her. She uses her brother as an excuse for this hourly phone call, and blames her uncertainty on his mental stability instead of telling her fiance that she is a selfish twat who is actually using her brother in this little home movie of psychosis. If she hasn’t brought enough innocent people into this fucked up situation, she also brings a small dog in a cage, to prove that the mirror also affects dogs, as it made their childhood pet sick until finally he went missing. There are other cases in history of dogs disappearing around the mirror. So what’s one more? This girl is so focused on proving shit, that she brings her newly-released from a mental institution little brother, an innocent dog, and her fiance into the mix. Sweet girl. As one might expect, shit does begin to hit the fan. Luckily the brother releases the dog before they both begin to hallucinate. They flash back and forth between seeing disturbing things in the house, to seeing the insane events that led to their parents deaths when they were kids. It gets to the point where they are half in this world, and half in the past. By the end of it the one who suffers the most is the brother, who should have been able to start a fresh new life away from the crazy he grew up around. It makes me sick to watch the end.

I should note that not one bit of this movie is scary in any way. A few scenes made me cringe and want to look away, but it was only in disgust at cheap bloody attempts to “scare” the viewer by making them want to puke. This movie is so terrible, and seeing innocent people fall victim to this stupid mirror and its “power” simply because this dumb broad brought them into the situation, made me seriously angry. I can’t even describe how stupid, unnecessary, disappointing, and rage-fueling this movie is. I’ve seen my share of bad horror movies. But this is one of the very few that were so stupid in terms of the plot, that I actually felt mad at it.

If you still want to see this film, knock yourself out. But don’t say I didn’t warn you. The Dark Princess gives this movie a -5 stars out of 5. I feel like I need to go take a bath to wash this experience off. And when I’m done I’m going to fish out something scarier to watch, like Casper.

Stay scared,
Dark Princess

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