It’s easy to kick around 20th Century Fox because they make really bad movies. Movies without great artistic intent and a studio with a reputation of kicking around their directors. Drew McWeeny (aka Moriarty) has a reputation for kicking Tom Rothman around, and it’s not entirely undeserved. The studio is at an all time low creatively.

And when you watch something like Mirrors, you’re forced to wonder how such a horrible film got made. There’s a haunted apartment store that has clean mirrors. The building killed its last evening security guard, and when Ben Carlson (Kiefer Sutherland) gets the job, spooky stuff starts happening. His sister Angela (Amy Smart) is first effected, and then the evil starts going after his estranged wife Amy (Paula Patton) and his two kids. It turns out that there’s a reason why the mirrors are haunted, and Ben has to figure it out to stop all reflections (including water) from killing his family.

Mirrors is really stupid. It’s never scary and feels like a remake of a J-horror film, which in some ways it is vaguely familiar to Dark Water, but is actually a remake of a Korean film called Into the Mirror. But the threat is never palpable, and it’s just kinda stupid. Sutherland gives a performance that does nothing to shake Jack Bauer from memory,  while his performance is on the side of bad No one brings their A-game, though, so it’s likely that this was a strike picture that got made because it was ready to go, or something.

But it really only gets truly goofy towards the last twenty minutes when an old woman goes all Evil Dead 2 and starts chasing Sutherland around a sewer. That was laughably bad. It almost gets The Happening bad. The rest is just too dull and plodding to be worth calling it a camp classic. It comes close. And what the fuck happened to Alexandre Aja? The dude showed good game with Haute Tension and The Hills Have Eyes, but this is just bad, and even the gore effects (which are nicely nasty) can’t save it.

Twentieth Century Fox’s Blu-ray gives the film more than it should. The film looks gorgeous, and it’s widescreen (2.35:1) and in DTS-HD 5.1 There’s a commentary with PIP (45 min.) with the pieces able to viewed separately. There’s also “Anna Esseker Hospital Footage” (6 min.) a making of (49 min.) that is hella thorough, “Behind the Mirrors” (18 min.) which talks about the psychological ramifications of the film, and it’s subject matter (GAH!), an animated storyboard sequence (1 min.), and eight deleted scenes (16 min.) with optional Aja commentary. The film also comes with a digital copy, if you want to put it on your computer. If you’re like that.