Mirrors is a 2008 American supernatural horror film[3] directed by Alexandre Aja, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, and Amy Smart.

He decided to retain the original film's basic idea involving mirrors, and to incorporate a few of its scenes, but otherwise crafted a new story and script for his version of the movie.

Ben Carson, a suspended police detective, begins his first day as a night security guard at the Mayflower, a luxury department store gutted by a fire and shuttered five years prior.

Meanwhile, Ben's sister, Angie, is killed by her reflection as it slowly tears off its lower jaw, causing her to bleed to death.

Failing to find "Esseker", Ben searches for Terrence Berry, the security guard who started the fire at the Mayflower 5 years prior.

Visiting Anna Esseker's childhood home, Ben learns she was violent, uncontrollable, and diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.

Anna's brother Robert recalls that when she returned, apparently cured, strange things started to happen with the mirrors in their home.

The possessed Anna attacks Ben, who manages to kill her by igniting a nearby gas line, setting off a huge explosion.

[6] The screenplay was initially written by Joe Gangemi and Jim Uhls, with rewrites by Michele and Kieran Mulroney.

After Alexandre Aja signed on to direct, he brought on his partner Grégory Levasseur to completely rework the script.

Javier Navarrete used a prior existing work of classical music, "Asturias" by Isaac Albéniz, as the film's main theme.

In foreign cinemas the film stayed in the top five for its opening weekend in several countries including France, Mexico and United Kingdom, where it consistently ranked #2.

The site's critical consensus reads "Inconsistency and listless plot make this horror remake a less-than-frightening time at the movies.

[20] On October 8, 2009, the director Victor Garcia announced that he would begin to shoot a sequel,[21][22] which would be released direct-to-DVD by 20th Century Fox.